Carrabba's Italian Grill Bruschette Carrabba

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Ready In:
14mins
Ingredients:
11
Yields:
6 slices
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ingredients

  • 1 loaf Italian bread or 1 loaf French bread
  • 12 cup butter, softened
  • 3 -4 garlic cloves, finely chopped
  • 12 teaspoon garlic powder
  • 3 slices Fontina cheese, thinly sliced and trimmed to fit bread slices
  • 3 slices mozzarella cheese, thinly sliced and trimmed to fit bread slices
  • 3 ounces mushrooms, sliced, and sauteed in butter
  • 3 slices roma tomatoes, sliced 1/4-inch thick
  • 1 12 tablespoons pesto sauce (use the classic Pesto containing basil and pine nuts, available in most grocery stores)
  • 1 pinch of extra-virgin olive oil
  • 1 pinch fresh basil, cut into fine strips (julienne strips)
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directions

  • Bake loaf of Italian bread in oven until lightly browned. Slice the bread into ½" 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 500ºF 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.

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  1. This made many tasty bites that my DS and I enjoyed. I used tomatoes from the garden and a fresh baked baguette. Thanks! Made for Newest Zaar Tag.
     
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