Creamy Tomato Soup and Italian Patty Melts Recipe

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Creamy Tomato Soup and Italian Patty Melts
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Directions:

  1. Heat the milk over moderate heat in a medium pot.
  2. Put tomatoes, tomato paste, onions, salt and pepper, sugar, flour, butter, celery into a food processor and grind until smooth.
  3. Pour mixture into milk and raise heat to bring soup to a boil.
  4. Reduce heat and simmer 15 minutes.
  5. While soup cooks, make pesto and sammies.
  6. Fill the food processor with watercress, loosely packed.
  7. Add hazelnuts, 1/2 of the oil and garlic cloves to the watercress in the processor. Add nutmeg, salt and pepper to the processor bowl, set lid in place and pulse grind the mixture into a thick paste.
  8. Add any remaining watercress to the processor and grind into the paste by pulsing the processor again.
  9. Transfer watercress paste to a bowl.
  10. Stir in the remaining oil and the cheese. Taste pesto sauce and adjust seasonings.
  11. Heat a griddle over medium high heat. Drizzle the pan with extra-virgin olive oil and add the patties and cook 5 minutes on each side.
  12. Remove from the griddle and add another tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil and the peppers and onions.
  13. Season the peppers and onions and cook until just tender, 5 minutes.
  14. Remove them from the griddle.
  15. Wipe the griddle clean and reduce heat to medium low.
  16. Assemble sandwiches: place 4 slices of bread down, top with 1/4 each of the peppers onions, then a slice of cheese, a cooked sausage patty, another slice of cheese and then place bread on top.
  17. Add butter to griddle and cook sammy melts 2 or 3 minutes on each side until golden and cheese is melted.
  18. Press with spatula as sammies cook or set another heavy skillet on sammies to weigh them down.
  19. Pour soup into shallow bowls and add a couple of rounded spoonfuls of pesto to each dish and stir it into the soup.
  20. Cut the patty melts corner to corner and dip in the soup as you eat.
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Nutrition Facts

Per ServingPer 100 g
Amount Per 1 Serving
Calories 1216.18 Kcal (5092 kJ)
Calories from fat 812.03 Kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 90.23g 139%
Cholesterol 75.16mg 25%
Sodium 1324.9mg 55%
Potassium 1191.89mg 25%
Total Carbs 60.73g 20%
Sugars 17.12g 68%
Dietary Fiber 6.35g 25%
Protein 41.8g 84%
Vitamin C 52mg 87%
Vitamin A 0.1mg 2%
Iron 3.5mg 19%
Calcium 860.7mg 86%
Amount Per 100 g
Calories 173.89 Kcal (728 kJ)
Calories from fat 116.11 Kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 12.9g 139%
Cholesterol 10.75mg 25%
Sodium 189.44mg 55%
Potassium 170.42mg 25%
Total Carbs 8.68g 20%
Sugars 2.45g 68%
Dietary Fiber 0.91g 25%
Protein 5.98g 84%
Vitamin C 7.4mg 87%
Iron 0.5mg 19%
Calcium 123.1mg 86%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
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Tastes

  • salty
  • savory
  • bitter
  • sweet
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Weightwatchers Points

  • 31
    Points
  • 33
    PointsPlus

Good Points

  • saturated fat free,
  • low cholesterol

Bad Points

  • High in Sodium,
  • High in Total Fat

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