Cheesy Vegetable Grilled Flatbread
A crusty cheesy bread that is so easy to make.
Servings: 4 -6
Ingredients
- Bread - a loaf of ciabatta or french baguette or any artisan bread. You may also use whole loaf of home baked bread.
- Onions - 1/4 cup chopped fine
- Tomato - 1 large and firm, chopped into small pieces
- Vegetables - 2 cups finely chopped. The vegetables may include - broccoli, zucchini, bell peppers/capsicum, olives (sliced) etc.
- Cheese - 1 cup shredded. It can be a mix of cheddar, mozzarella and parmesan. You can also use any 1 kind of cheese or Pizza Cheese.
Oils & Spices
- Olive Oil - 1&1/2 tbsp
- Salt & Black pepper to taste
- Basil - 1/4 tsp dry or 7-8 leaves fresh chopped fine
- Rosemary - fat pinch dry or a small twig fresh
You can also use 1/2 tsp Italian seasoning mix in place of basil and rosemary.
Instructions
Preheat the oven at 425*F / 215*C.
Preparing the vegetables
- Take a saute pan and heat 1/2 tbsp olive oil in it. Add onions and sweat them for about 1 minute till soft on medium high heat.
- Now add all the other vegetables except Tomatoes. Add salt and other spices. Stir.
- Cook the vegetables on high heat for about 2 minutes. Switch off the heat. Add tomatoes and mix.
- Take off the gas stove and let cool for few minutes.
- You may do this step in advance also and keep it handy in the fridge.
Making Cheesy vegetable grilled flatbread
- Take the loaf of bread. Slice it into 2 halves horizontally so that we have 2 long halves and each half has crust.
- Now oil the 2 halves of the loaves from the bottom crust side and top with olive oil. For crustier bread, oil the bottom part generously.
- Lay them on the baking sheet with crust side down.
- Now take the rested cooked vegetables and spread a layer of them on top of each bread.
- Sprinkle the top with cheese.
- Bake for about 8-10 minutes till the cheese turns slightly golden at the top.
- Take it out. Slice the bread either into thin slices or big slices and serve it hot.