The Spicy Spatula

It all started with a caprese salad.

Sounds like the beginning of a wild story, doesn’t it? Unfortunately this isn’t one of those stories but I’ll try to think of one for next time.

So like I said, it started with a caprese salad. By ‘it’ I mean this riff on a traditional caprese salad. Long story short, I was watching an episode of Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives and Guy was at a restaurant where they served a sandwich called a Carrot Caprese that was full of animals. But it gave me an idea.

I liked the idea of a carrot caprese salad or sandwich and I started with that idea and ran with it. I have yet to find a vegan mozzarella that mimics the fresh mozzarella found in the traditional caprese salad so I decided to just play around with the simplicity of a caprese salad (sandwich).

And that’s how today’s vegan sandwich came to be.

It’s simple and flavorful and totally delicious and a very distant step-cousin of a vegan caprese salad. Does it matter what its called when it’s so good?

Nope. And that’s my final word on that.

Kitchen Tools:

*Mixing bowl
*Vegetable peeler
*Citrus juicer
*Food processor
*Whisk

Ingredients:

*Sandwich bread
*Carrot
*Shallot
*Lemon/lime juice
*Salt & black pepper
*Agave syrup (or sugar)
*Pesto (I used homemade carrot basil pesto) recipe HERE
*Vegan feta cheese

Instructions:

*Peel carrot and then with the peeler, continue slicing through it until you have long, thin ribbons of carrot.

*Slice the shallots as thin as you can.

*Whisk together lemon and/or lime juice, salt, pepper and agave syrup until blended. Add carrots and shallots to the bowl and toss until coated.

*Set aside.

*In the food processor add vegan feta cheese and pesto. run until it is well blended, as in it becomes a pale green color. As you can see I don’t have the best food processor but that’s fine because I wasn’t going for a fully blended sauce, but rather a more rustic blending so there were a few chunks of feta that would add a flavor bomb once in a while.

*Using a spatula or butter knife, spread the vegan pesto feta on one or both sides of the bread and top with the pickled carrots & shallots.

*Eat and enjoy and then spread the word!

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