Recipe

Hiking Sandwich Recipe

	Edieamean / All my dishes 1 year ago Very portable meal to take on hikes and day trips. No mayo so this alleviates the need for additonal refrigeration. Prep:20m Servings:4	Edieamean
	very easy gourmet

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Ingredients

3 gloves of garlic

2 cups of basil leaves

3 tbsp pine nuts

dash of salt

dash of pepper

1/2 cup olive oil

1/2 cup freshly grated parmesean cheese (can subsitute romano)

Round or short oval bread

fresh baby spinach leaves

1/2 lb thinly sliced deli smoked turkey breast

1/2 lb thinly sliced deli provolone cheese

small jar of roasted red peppers, drained

tomato slices

Directions

Add the garlic to a food processor or good blender and mince.

Add the basil leaves, pine nuts salt and pepper to the bowl of the processor.

While the processor is running, slowing add the olive oil until alll the ingredients are pureed.

Stop the processor, scrape the sides with a spatula and add the parmesean cheese until well blended.

Set pesto aside in a bowl.

Cut off the top of the bread.

Scoop out the bread until you have a large cavity.

Spread the pesto on all surfaces inside the bread.

Save the remaining pesto for other uses.

Layer spinach, meat, cheese, red peppers and tomato and continue layering until ingredients are used up or sandwich is full.

Put top back on bread and wrap tightly in plastic wrap.

Refrigerate until ready for hike or outing.

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Comments

edieamean 1 year ago said:
A fantastic sandwich to take mountain biking. Everthing stays together. Don't forget to add fresh fruit to make it a complete meal.

dragonwings647 1 year ago said:
Sounds very tasty and portable too. Wish we had had something like this when we used to go cross country skiing. Great post you have my 5

elgab89 1 year ago said:
Sooo nice, even for a picnic! What a delicious combination! Great recipe!

jett2whit 1 year ago said:
Mmmmm tasty! Can you hike over here and deliver? lol

hunnee 1 year ago said:
Mmm I love the flavors in this :D

unswissmiss 10 months, 3 weeks ago said:
Love the ingredients in here! I bet it would go great with grilled veggies too.

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