Carrabba's Italian Grill's Bruschette Carrabba Recipe - Cooking Index
Carrabba's Italian Grill's Bruschette Carrabba Recipe - Cooking Index
"Bruschette" (singular form is Bruschetta); is a grilled rustic Italian bread, embellished, with a variety of toppings. In its simplest form, Bruschetta can consist of toasted bread, rubbed with fresh garlic and drizzled with extra-virgin olive oil. Or it can be topped according to your own tastes and imagination, like these mouthwatering variations from Carrabba's. Carrabba's Manager Charles Criswell graciously shares their tantalizing version of this simple, rustic antipasto, which includes some with sauteed mushrooms paired with fontina cheese, as well as the ever-popular tomato-pesto-mozzarella combination. The pesto can be made at home, but it is widely available now is our markets.
Courses: Main Course| 1 | Loaf Italian-style or French bread | |
| 1 | Butter - softened | |
| 3 | Garlic cloves - (to 4) - finely chopped | |
| 1/2 teaspoon | 2.5ml | Garlic powder |
| 3 | Fontina cheese - thinly sliced, | |
| And trimmed to fit bread slices | ||
| 3 | Mozzarella cheese - thinly sliced, | |
| And trimmed to fit bread slices | ||
| 3 oz | 85g | Mushrooms - sliced, and |
| Sauteed in butter | ||
| 3 | Roma tomato, 1/4" thick | |
| 1 1/2 tablespoons | 22ml | Pesto sauce |
| = (use the classic Pesto containing basil | ||
| And pinenuts, available most grocery store | ||
| Drizzle of extra-virgin olive oil | ||
| 1 | Julienned fresh basil |
Bake loaf of Italian bread in oven until lightly browned. Slice the bread into 1/2-inch slices and discard end pieces. Cut larger middle slices into equal halves.
Mix softened butter with chopped garlic and garlic powder. Spread garlic butter over six of the smaller pieces of bread. Place fontina slices on 3 buttered slices of bread. Place mozzarella on the three remaining pieces of buttered bread.
Place sauteed mushrooms on top of the fontina cheese. Top the mozzarella cheese with the tomato slices and Pesto. Place all six slices on a baking pan and bake in a preheated 500 degree oven for 4 minutes, or until cheese has melted.
Remove from oven and top fontina-mushroom bruschette with a drizzle of olive oil. Do not add olive oil to the tomato-pesto bruschette. Sprinkle all bruschette with the thinly sliced basil leaves.
This recipe yields 6 slices.
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