By Sanjeev Kapoor
Blueberry Grilled Vegetable Panini
About the Dish
A fresh, light, and flavorful roll packed with crunchy vegetables, herbs, noodles, and USA Blueberries, served with USA Blueberry sauce. Perfect as an appetizer, light lunch, or innovative plated snack.
Serves: 2
Ingredients
- ½ cup blueberry chutney
- ¾ cup hung yogurt
- Salt to taste
- Crushed black peppercorns to taste
- 2 medium brinjals, sliced
- 1 medium red capsicum, seeded and cut into triangles
- 1 small yellow zucchini, sliced
- 1 small green zucchini, sliced
- 2 panini breads
- 1 tbsp chopped garlic
- ½ tsp red chilli flakes
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- Butter as required
- Rocket leaves as required
Method
- Take blueberry chutney in a bowl. Add hung yogurt, salt and crushed black peppercorns and mix well.
- Take brinjals in a bowl. Add red capsicum, yellow zucchini and green zucchini. Add salt, crushed black peppercorns, garlic, red chilli flakes and 1 tbsp olive oil and mix well.
- Heat a nonstick grill pan. Arrange the marinated vegetables and grill for 3-4 minutes on each side.
- Slit the panini breads and apply the blueberry mixture on lower halves, arrange rocket leaves on top and layer all the grilled vegetables on top of rocket layer.
- Cover with remaining halves of the panini breads and apply butter on top.
- Heat a sandwich griller and grill the prepared sandwiches till crisp.
- Cut into halves and serve.
Blueberries have been a part of North American food and medicine traditions for centuries.