Pumpkin and sunflower seed bread buns with goat’s milk cheese, grilled radicchio and onion jam

2018-02-12 When in a hurry, have a sandwich. But why not make it a gourmet sandwich? Here’s a tasty original recipe from chef Mario Grazia, who has come up with fifty unusual sandwich recipes for a book edited by Academia Barilla, published a few years ago by White Star and still perfectly up-to-date today.
In this post, we publish the recipe for pumpkin and sunflower seed bread buns with goat’s milk cheese, grilled radicchio and red onion jam. The description is mouth-watering... Tart goat’s milk cheese, in contrast with bitter radicchio and sweet jam!
Preparation time is an hour and fifteen minutes: 30 minutes to prepare the ingredients and 45 minutes to cook the onion jam.

Here are the ingredients for four bread buns:
• 4 pumpkin seed and sunflower seed bread buns, weighing about 80 grams each;
• 400 grams radicchio;
• 250 grams goat’s milk cheese;
• 15 millilitres extra virgin olive oil;
• salt and pepper.
For the onion jam:
• 300 grams red onions;
• 100 millilitres red wine;
• 40 grams cane sugar;
• 1 tsp acacia honey.

Directions:
• Peel onions and slice thinly. Put them in a pan with honey, wine and sugar and cook over low heat for about 45 minutes.
• Trim and wash radicchio and cut into slices about one centimetre thick. Season with salt and pepper, grease with half the extra virgin olive oil and grill. Drizzle grilled radicchio with the remaining olive oil and leave to marinate for a few minutes.
• Cut bread buns in half horizontally.
• Arrange grilled radicchio over the bottom half, add sliced goat’s milk cheese and complete with onion jam.
• Cover with the top half of the bread bun and enjoy! Buon appetito!

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Recipe: chef Mario Grazia (Academia Barilla).
Source: Academia Barilla (ed.), Panini. 50 Ricette Facili, Edizioni White Star, Novara, 2014.