Good evening fellow Steemians!
Today's post is slightly different as I'm also using it as my official entry into the Steemit Sandwich Contest. I stumbled across this randomly in the Food section and thought it was kind of cool. I love food, I love competition = win, win?!
I decided to make a Mediterranean Cob Loaf. I found out it's also called a 'muffaletta' in America - anyone confirm this is true? It's something I have made before when we've gone on picnics and wanted to eat a sandwich but something a bit more exciting than chicken or ham and cheese (both are great, but sometimes you just want that something special).
The cob loaf is full to the brim of anything you want but I did one that's Mediterranean in style so has some cured meats, cheese and grilled vegetables.
In my usual style though I will post a step-by-step pictorial on how I put together today's sandwich...here we go!
1. Ingredients required
- Cob loaf (this is a large round loaf) - white is generally used but I chose a potato/rosemary sourdough for something different ;)
- 2x red capsicums and 2x yellow capsicums
- 2x zucchinis
- 1x eggplant
- 200g cured meat (I used double smoked leg ham and hot sopressa salami)
- 200g cheese (I used a small wheel of Camembert from the brand Prairie Normande)
- butter lettuce
- pesto (or whatever your favourite spread/dip is)
- olive oil and salt & pepper
2. Slice up the vegetables ready to grill
3. I grilled these on the stovetop on a griddle pan I have
4. Hollow out the bread - I used a potato and rosemary sourdough but most people just use a plain white bread cob loaf.
5. Spread pesto around and up the walls of the cob loaf.
6. Ready to assemble!
7. Start layering (make sure you don't put vegetables or salad first as it will make the bread soggy!)
8. Wrap in cling film and place a heavy plate on top and pop into the fridge for at least 2 hours (or overnight) to let the flavours develop.
9. Next morning...
10. Cut and serve!
Close up of the fillings...
Steemit Validation Photo:
"Glamour" shot (with 3 sicilian olives, my favourite type haha)
Hope you guys liked the recipe post today, let me know if you've ever eaten something like this before or what it's called in your country!
