A healthy and fresh Garden Vegetable Sandwich with cucumber, carrot, sunflower greens, roasted sweet potato, strawberries, and herbed goat cheese. A delicious and healthy go-to sandwich for lunch!
Warning: side effects may include:
- Intense taste bud satisfaction
- Increased mental focus and physical strength
- Internal mind, body, soul connectedness
- Digestive happiness
- Really great skin
- Overall good juju
Proceed with caution.
Or should I say, proceed with fanaticism.
The Inspiration For This Recipe:
As I mentioned a couple of days ago in my Paleo Sandwich Bread post, I’ve been rekindling my sandwich flame now that I have my bread avenue all figured out.
I’ve been on a years’-long sandwich hiatus, primarily because all’s I needed was some sandwich inspiration. Homemade grain-free paleo bread will be that for you.
I had all sorts of vegetables in my refrigerator that happened to fit together nicely for a garden vegetable sandwich.
So I grated, sliced, chopped them up, mashed a sweet potato I had already roasted, and laid it on thick over some herbed goat cheese-smeared bread.
While all of the veggies I employed went down with ease, you can use whatever you have on hand to mix it up in your own rainbow bright veggie-packed sandwich.
Things like spinach, tomato, hummus, and/or turkey deli meat, peanut butter, potato chips (<- just making sure you’re still listening…reading… Are you? Bueller?) would be great additions/substitutions.
Ingredients for This Garden Vegetable Sandwich:
Let me ask you this: Is it weird that I put strawberries in this sandwich?
Can we even handle this situation? This is one of those times you’ll just have to inject all that faith and trust in me. They work, I do solemnly swear it.
Let’s face it: the herbed goat cheese is the real deal maker here.
Because I’m no fan of mayo, I use various cheeses and spreads to spruce up my sandwiches and make them un-dry.
Things like hummus, guacamole (or just mashed avocado), whole grain mustard, homemade aioli, and tzatziki, are my favorites.
Or just straight-up melted pepper jack, because: HELLO melty cheese is mouth-watering.
I took some plain jane goat cheese and combined it with a variety of fresh and dried herbs to bring some earthy flavor to this garden vegetable fest.
You can switch up your herb selections to your heart’s delight. No matter how you slice it, you’ll end up with a super healthy, vitamin-packed sandwich – perfect to bring to work for lunch!
Also try out my Pear Apple Cheddar Caramelized Onion Grilled Cheese Bagel Sandwich and my Roasted Eggplant Pesto Sandwich.
Garden Vegetable Sandwich time!
The Ultimate Garden Vegetable Sandwich with Herbed Goat Cheese
Ingredients
- 1 small sweet potato roasted (or steamed) and mashed
- ½ medium cucumber peeled and thinly sliced
- 1/2 cup ripe strawberries sliced
- 1 medium carrot peeled and grated
- 2 ounces sunflower greens*
- 4 slices sandwich bread
Herbed Goat Cheese:
- 4 ounces goat chevre
- 2 teaspoons fresh parsley finely chopped
- 2 teasppons fresh basil finely chopped
- 1/2 teaspoon Italian seasoning or Herbs de Provence
- 1/4 teaspoon dried oregano
- Kosher salt to taste
Instructions
- In a small bowl, mix together all of the ingredients for the herbed goat cheese. refrigerate until ready to use.
- Steam a small sweet potato until cooked through, about 30 minutes, or until very soft when poked with a fork. Allow sweet potato to cool before peeling it and mashing it.
- Toast sandwich bread in a toaster or toaster oven. Spread desired amount of herbed goat cheese on all four pieces or bread (Note: save remaining goat cheese for future sandwiches or appetizers).
- Layer two of the pieces of bread with mashed sweet potato, cucumber, shredded carrot, strawberries, and sunflower greens. Serve and enjoy.
I want to eat this sandwich just so I can experience that list of side effects. You had me at goat cheese herb spread. Get in mah belly!
What a great sandwich! And beautiful photos, too, sandwiches are hard to shoot!
And… now I’m craving a sandwich for breakfast! That herbed goat cheese spread is going to go on everything in the near future!
Thank you! We will have this for lunch tomorrow. Looks fantastic.
I would actually LOVE a peanut butter and potato chip sandwich! lol
But I think your version is probably much better for my juju. All of those colors are so vibrant, I bet you feel like a million bucks after eating one. And I love the idea to add herbed goat cheese. Mmm…tasty.
I hope you have a great weekend, love!
Mmm, this looks so delicious! I’ve been looking for more meatless meal options that include more veggies so I will have to give this one a try. (New to your blog and I love it! I’m gluten free too and can’t wait to try out all of your recipes).
This sandwich looks so delicious and healthy!
Straws…tucked in a sammie…on homemade bread…with herbed goat cheese. Legit I must be DREAMING. Gimme oneadose stat!
I am AMAZED by this sandwich! So much to love about it. I mean, you paired sweet potatoes and strawberries…genius is what that is.