Chef Jamie Gwen shares recipes for these heat climate days, whenever you don’t wish to warmth up the kitchen or sweat over a range.
RECIPES
HASSELBACK TOMATO CLUB “SANDWICHES”
- 4 giant Roma tomatoes
- 4 slices creamy Havarti cheese
- 4 items cooked bacon strips, halved
- 4 slices deli turkey
- 2 tablespoons mayonnaise
- 4 Bibb lettuce leaves
- 1 ripe avocado, peeled and sliced
- Salt and freshly-cracked pepper
Reduce 4 crosswise slices in every tomato, leaving the tomato intact on the backside. Fill every slice with cheese, bacon, turkey (unfold with a little bit of mayo!), lettuce, and avocado. Sprinkle with salt and pepper.
PESTO CHICKEN SALAD on CROISSANTS
- 2 cups shredded rotisserie hen
- 1/2 cup pesto
- 1/4 cup mayonnaise
- 1/4 cup plain Greek yogurt
- 1/2 cup finely chopped celery
- 12 mini croissants, break up open
- Child arugula
- Salt and freshly-ground pepper
Mix the pesto, mayonnaise, yogurt, and celery in a mixing bowl and stir till nicely mixed. Add the shredded hen and blend to coat nicely. Fill the croissants with the hen salad and prime with arugula.
PEACH + PROSCIUTTO CAPRESE
- 4 ripe peaches or nectarines, pitted and sliced
- 3 cups heirloom cherry tomatoes, halved
- 1 cup child mozzarella balls, halved
- 1 cup basil leaves, torn into items
- White balsamic vinegar
- Olive oil
- Flake salt and freshly-ground pepper
- 4 slices prosciutto
Crispy prosciutto: lay the slices of prosciutto in your air fryer and air fry at 400ºF for 7 minutes or till golden. Cool till crispy.
Mix the elements for the salad on a big serving platter.
Drizzle the white balsamic vinegar and olive oil over the salad and season with salt and pepper. High with crumbled crispy prosciutto.
RAINBOW FRUIT KABOBS WITH HONEY LIME YOGURT DIP
- Recent strawberries
- Melissa’s Pixie Tangerines
- Pineapple chunks
- Crimson and inexperienced grapes
- Blueberries
- Honey Lime Yogurt Dip:
- 1 cup vanilla yogurt
- 2 tablespoons honey
- 2 tablespoons recent lime juice
- Zest from one lime
Utilizing skewers, popsicle sticks, or cake pop sticks, slide the fruit onto every stick within the following order: strawberry, clementine, pineapple, inexperienced grape, blueberry, and crimson grape.
In a mixing bowl, mix the yogurt, honey, lime juice, and zest. Refrigerate at for one hour earlier than serving.
Organize the skewers on a platter to type a rainbow and serve with the dip.
3-INGREDIENT NO-BAKE CHOCOLATE CHEESECAKE
- 2 packages Nabisco Well-known Chocolate Wafer Cookies
- Three 8-ounce bricks cream cheese (room temperature)
- 1 cup chocolate syrup
- 1/4 cup water
Line a 9-inch spherical cake pan or springform pan with sufficient plastic wrap to increase by 4-inches throughout.
Place 20 chocolate cookies in your meals processor and pulse till positive crumbs type. Put aside.
Utilizing an electrical mixer, beat the cream cheese at excessive velocity till fluffy, about 3 minutes. Beat within the chocolate syrup and water and beat for two minutes extra.
Organize 9 cookies in an overlapping ring on the underside of the lined pan and place 1 cookie within the heart. Spoon one-fourth of the chocolate cream over the cookies. Repeat with the remaining cookies and chocolate cream, ending with a layer of 10 cookies on prime. Fold the plastic wrap excessive of the cake. Refrigerate the cake for not less than 8 hours, ideally in a single day.
Peel again the plastic wrap and flip the cake over onto a serving plate. Fastidiously peel off the plastic wrap. Press the cookie crumbs onto the facet of the cake. Reduce slices and serve.
This section aired on KTLA 5 Weekend Morning Information on Aug. 14, 2021.
