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Home » Dinner » Italian » Italian Garlic Bread Grilled Cheese

Italian Garlic Bread Grilled Cheese

Created: March 16, 2017 Updated: October 13, 2021 by Lyuba Brooke 12 Comments

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This new grilled cheese sandwich will knock your socks off! It’s made with garlic bread and loaded with gooey mozzarella cheese, pine nuts, and prosciutto.

Italian Garlic Bread Grilled Cheese with ham cut in half on a cutting board

ITALIAN GRILLED CHEESE

I can’t wait any longer for the National Grilled Cheese Month to start. I have a fun new Italian grilled cheese to share and it’s extra special because…it’s made ON GARLIC BREAD!

That extra pop of flavor that comes from making the grilled cheese on garlic bread is something special. To compliment garlic bread the best, I packed it with great Italian flavors. Pine nuts, fresh basil, prosciutto, and of course, gooey mozzarella cheese came together perfectly to make this Italian sandwich divine.

After making this grilled cheese, I fell in love with these flavors so much that I made a pasta dish and a quinoa dish using this flavor pallet. I added some pesto to the pasta dish to add moisture and make the flavors pop. As good as those dishes were thought, they didn’t quite compare to the beauty of the garlic bread grilled cheese.

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Italian Garlic Bread Grilled Cheese with parsley on top as garnish on a cutting board with pine nuts around

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Italian Garlic Bread Grilled Cheese with ham cut in half on a cutting board

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Italian Garlic Bread Grilled Cheese

It’s made with garlic bread and loaded with gooey mozzarella cheese, pine nuts, and prosciutto.
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Course: lunch
Cuisine: American
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 10 minutes
Total Time: 20 minutes
Servings: 1 sandwich
Calories: 571kcal
Author: Lyuba Brooke

Ingredients

  • 2 slices of Italian bread
  • 1 1/4 Tbsp salted butter softened
  • 1 large garlic clove
  • 4 oz mozzarella cheese block melts best
  • 3 slices of prosciutto
  • 1 1/2 Tbsp pine nuts
  • 3-4 basil leaves minced

Instructions

  • Mix butter and pressed garlic clove together with a fork until completely combined. Butter the outer sides of each slice of bread and get some butter mixture on the sides too.
  • Slice mozzarella cheese thinly.
  • Preheat a cooking pan big enough to fit two slices of bread over medium heat.
  • Place bread slices, buttered side down, in the preheated pan.
  • Divide slices of mozzarella cheese among both slices of bread, spreading them evenly. Let it cook until cheese starts to melt.
  • Spread pine nuts and basil over cheese on one slice. Place prosciutto on top of nuts and basil, spread it evenly over the bread slice.
  • Cover the slice that's loaded with nuts, basil and prosciutto with the other cheesy slice of bread. Press gently and let the grilled cheese cook until the cheese is completely melted, flipping as needed.

Notes

Recipe from Lyuba @ willcookforsmiles.com. All images and content are copyright protected. Please do not use my images without prior permission. If you want to share this recipe, please simply link back to this post for the recipe. Thank you.

Nutrition

Serving: 1g | Calories: 571kcal | Carbohydrates: 5g | Protein: 28g | Fat: 50g | Saturated Fat: 25g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 7g | Monounsaturated Fat: 14g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 127mg | Sodium: 837mg | Potassium: 196mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 2g | Vitamin A: 1272IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 587mg | Iron: 1mg
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 Italian Garlic Bread Grilled Cheese with ham cut in half on a cutting board

 

collage top photo Italian Garlic Bread Grilled Cheese with ham cut in half on a cutting board bottom sandwich on cutting board

LYUBA

ABOUT LYUBA

I’m Lyuba Brooke, mother of 2, the cook, recipe developer, photographer, and author behind willcookforsmiles.com. I share many classic and original recipes, cooking tips, and tutorials. My passion is sharing delicious meals for everyone to try. Read more...

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All images and text ©Lyubov Brooke for ©Will Cook For Smiles. Please do not use my images without prior permission. If using my posts in collections and features, please link back to this post for the recipe. Disclaimer: Nutrition information shown is not guaranteed to be 100% accurate as most ingredients and brands have variations.

Comments

  1. Jean says

    October 12, 2021 at 11:13 pm

    PLease include Nutritional Information on ALL of your recipes!

    Reply
  2. ANNE MARIE HIGGINS says

    July 12, 2020 at 10:41 am

    Good Morning,

    Just found your site and am anxious to try your grilled cheese. I live on it, but this is even better.

    Thank you for all your thoughts….

    ~ Anne Marie ~

    Reply
  3. aidan says

    September 19, 2018 at 8:31 am

    4 stars
    This looks like my sort of sandwich. I especially like the inclusion of the pine nuts!

    Reply
    • lyuba says

      October 1, 2018 at 3:45 pm

      I really hope you will try it and like it, Aidan!

      Reply
  4. Bernadette. Fratini says

    March 21, 2018 at 8:55 am

    Everything looks so good. I love grilled cheese. I put tomatoes with oregano & crushed red pepper . Great but yours is so creative. Garlic bread is so ingenious. Thanks a lot .

    Reply
  5. sonakshi saxena says

    January 22, 2018 at 3:01 am

    5 stars
    Hey, Team, its was awesome reading this detailed recipe labour garlic bread

    Reply
  6. Julian Butyniec says

    January 19, 2018 at 8:23 am

    I have a copy of your Italian Garlic Bread Grilled Cheese. One more thing I would like to point out. It would be nice if you included a photo of your recipe in your printer friendly version. What l do now, is print the printer friendly version and then print your non printer friendly recipe with the photo and then cut out the photo and tape it to the printer friendly version. I use up too much ink and paper with this method.

    Reply
    • lyuba says

      January 20, 2018 at 6:40 pm

      Hmmm, that’s a good suggestion! I’ll poke around and see how I can add it to the recipe card 🙂

      Reply
  7. LMD123 says

    March 21, 2017 at 2:26 am

    YUM! My hubby would love the steak version of this…!

    Reply
    • Lyuba says

      March 21, 2017 at 10:59 pm

      Thank you, Leanne! Steak is a man’s weakness, indeed 🙂

      Reply
  8. Marqueeta Hartman says

    March 18, 2017 at 1:40 pm

    These sound delicious. Cannot wait to try one. Thanks for the recipes.

    Reply
    • Lyuba says

      March 21, 2017 at 10:58 pm

      Thank you, Marqueeta 🙂

      Reply

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I’m Lyuba Brooke, mother of 2, the cook, recipe developer, photographer, and author behind willcookforsmiles.com. I share many classic and original recipes, cooking tips, and tutorials. My passion is sharing delicious meals for everyone to try. Read More.

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