How to Make Dunkin’s Tomato Pesto Grilled Cheese Sandwich – Copycat Recipe

Learn how to make Dunkin’s Tomato Pesto Grilled Cheese Sandwich so you can fall in love like we did with the gloriously flavorful combo of tasty pesto, white cheddar, grilled seasoned sourdough, and fire-roasted tomatoes in this copycat recipe!

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How to Make Dunkin’s Tomato Pesto Grilled Cheese Sandwich – Copycat Recipe

Oh Mother of all things Holy, let me tell ya, friends…. this sandwich is DREAMY! As in, not ONLY is it the dreamiest sandwich ever, you DREAM ABOUT IT! I’ve woken up in the middle of the night after having dreamt I was eating this sandwich SADDER THAN I HAVE EVER BEEN because it wasn’t actually in my face. *pouts*

Can you really blame me? Gorgeous pesto smeared lovingly on toasted sourdough with velvety white cheddar cheese melted on fire-roasted tomatoes. My mouth is literally watering RIGHT THIS VERY SECOND describing to you the beauty that is this sandwich.

Cancel your original dinner plans, folks! You’re gonna wanna create a shopping list for these ingredients STAT because this Copycat Dunkin’s Tomato Pesto Grilled Cheese Sandwich is what dreams are made of (uh, literally)!

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Equipment Needed to Make These Copycat Dunkin’ Tomato Pesto Grilled Cheese Sandwiches

To make this tasty copycat Dunkin’ Donuts recipe, you will need the following kitchen tools at the ready:

Ingredients Needed to Make These Copycat Dunkin’ Tomato Pesto Grilled Cheese Sandwiches

Gather these delicious ingredients altogether to make this awesome copycat recipe!

How to Make This Copycat Dunkin’ Donuts Tomato Pesto Grilled Cheese Sandwich

On a dinner plate, drizzle olive oil and basil onto the plate. Using a bread knife, cut slices of sourdough bread evenly and ensure you cut an even number of slices accordingly. Cut your white cheddar slices in half to form triangles; set aside for later. One slice at a time, lay the sourdough slices into the basil olive oil and coat thoroughly. Repeat with remaining sliced bread.

Set the oiled sliced bread aside on a plate.

Drain your fire-roasted tomatoes and place it on a plate to be ready for use.

In a sprayed frying pan, add a little butter to the bottom of the pan and allow to melt. Adding as many slices to your frying pan as you can at one time (will depend on size of pan and bread slices). Fry the bread on one side carefully while ensuring it isn’t overly done, just lightly toasted and crisp.

Using a spatula, flip the toasted bread slice over.

Carefully place a trimmed slice of white cheddar cheese over top of each toasted bread slice in the pan.

Using a spoon (or small rubber spatula), place the pesto onto the cheese and carefully spread it without disturbing the cheese bread too much.

Remove the pesto cheese bread from the pan and onto a nearby plate to assemble the sandwiches. Continue to fry the sourdough in your pan with cheese and pesto over top.

How to Assemble Dunkin’s Tomato Pesto Grilled Cheese Sandwiches

Divide your pesto cheese bread slices in half to work with one half of them at a time. For one set of slices, carefully add some of your fire-roasted tomatoes on top.

Top each of the tomato bread slices with a slice of pesto cheese bread from the other slices; press carefully to form the grilled cheese sandwich.

Serve immediately and enjoy it immensely!

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• On a dinner plate, drizzle olive oil and basil onto the plate; set aside for the moment.
• Using a bread knife, cut slices of sourdough bread evenly and ensure you cut an even number of slices accordingly. Set sliced bread aside for the moment.
• Drain your fire-roasted tomatoes and place it on a plate to be ready for use.
• Cut your white cheddar slices in half to form triangles; set aside.

• One slice at a time, lay the sourdough slices into the basil olive oil and coat thoroughly. Once drenched on both sides, set aside on a plate and repeat with remaining sliced bread.

• In a sprayed frying pan, add a little butter to the bottom of the pan and allow to melt.

• Adding as many slices to your frying pan as you can at one time (will depend on size of pan and bread slices). Fry the bread on one side carefully while ensuring it isn’t overly done, just lightly toasted and crisp.

• Using a spatula, flip the toasted bread slice over and carefully place a trimmed slice of white cheddar cheese over top of each toasted bread slice in the pan.
• Using a spoon (or small rubber spatula), place the pesto onto the cheese and carefully spread it without disturbing the cheese bread too much.

• Remove the pesto cheese bread from the pan and onto a nearby plate to assemble the sandwiches.

• Divide your pesto cheese bread slices in half to work with one half of them at a time. For one set of slices, add some of your fire-roasted tomatoes on top.

• Top each of the tomato bread slices with a slice of pesto cheese bread from the other slices; press carefully to form the grilled cheese sandwich.

• Serve immediately and enjoy it immensely!