Creamy Tomato Soup And Italian Patty Melts

Serves: 3

Estell Schumm

1 January 1970

Based on User reviews:

53

Spice

59

Sweetness

52

Sourness

44

mins

Prep time (avg)

3.9

Difficulty

Ingredients:

4 cups

Whole Milk

1

Salt

1 tsp

Sugar

2 cloves

Garlic (cracked)

Directions:

1

Heat the milk over moderate heat in a medium pot

2

Put tomatoes, tomato paste, onions, salt and pepper, sugar, flour, butter, celery into a food processor and grind until smooth

3

Pour mixture into milk and raise heat to bring soup to a boil

4

Reduce heat and simmer 15 minutes

5

While soup cooks, make pesto and sammies

6

Fill the food processor with watercress, loosely packed

7

Add hazelnuts, 1/2 of the oil and garlic cloves to the watercress in the processor

8

Add nutmeg, salt and pepper to the processor bowl, set lid in place and pulse grind the mixture into a thick paste

9

Add any remaining watercress to the processor and grind into the paste by pulsing the processor again

10

Transfer watercress paste to a bowl

11

Stir in the remaining oil and the cheese

12

Taste pesto sauce and adjust seasonings

13

Heat a griddle over medium high heat

14

Drizzle the pan with extra-virgin olive oil and add the patties and cook 5 minutes on each side

15

Remove from the griddle and add another tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil and the peppers and onions

16

Season the peppers and onions and cook until just tender, 5 minutes

17

Remove them from the griddle

18

Wipe the griddle clean and reduce heat to medium low

19

Assemble sandwiches: place 4 slices of bread down, top with 1/4 each of the peppers onions, then a slice of cheese, a cooked sausage patty, another slice of cheese and then place bread on top

20

Add butter to griddle and cook sammy melts 2 or 3 minutes on each side until golden and cheese is melted

21

Press with spatula as sammies cook or set another heavy skillet on sammies to weigh them down

22

Pour soup into shallow bowls and add a couple of rounded spoonfuls of pesto to each dish and stir it into the soup

23

Cut the patty melts corner to corner and dip in the soup as you eat