Dinner · 20 min · Amounts not specified
Grilled vegetable sandwich
Char the vegetables; cheese is the glue.
The sheet · 2 sandwiches · 20 min
easyWhy tonight. Char the vegetables; cheese is the glue.
What it needs
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- bread
- zucchini
- bell pepper
- goat cheese
Good if you have them, fine if you do not: arugula.
Method
- Salt the zucchini slices and leave them ten minutes, then pat dry. They are mostly water and they will steam otherwise.
- Grill or sear the vegetables hard and separately, so each gets color rather than a crowded pan of steam.
- Let them cool to warm before building. Hot vegetables steam the bread from the inside.
- Goat cheese on both slices as a barrier and a binder, and something acid — lemon or vinegar — over the vegetables.
Technique coach
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- Bread and doughNO KNEAD Tartine Sourdough BreadBrian LagerstromA Tartine-style loaf from mixing to bake, with the timings a home oven actually needs.Link checked 2026-09-08
- Bread and doughHow to knead bread doughKing Arthur Baking CompanyHand kneading, and how to tell when the gluten is developed rather than guessing at minutes.Link checked 2026-09-08
- Bread and doughSourdough Bread | Basics with Babish (feat. Joshua Weissman)Binging with BabishMixing, proofing and shaping worked through slowly enough to follow the first time.Link checked 2026-09-08
Why each of these is on the list
What the ingredients are actually doing
- bread
- Structure, thickener, and the reason a lot of these dishes stretch.
- zucchini
- Water in a vegetable costume.
- bell pepper
- Sweetness and water. Raw it is crunch, blistered under a broiler it goes silky and smoky and stops tasting like a salad bar — that char is most of the reason to buy them.
- goat cheese
- Acidic, tangy and it softens rather than melts.
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