Oven cheese toasts with tomato and mushrooms, Polish zapiekanka-style
Breakfast or supper from what every fridge holds: thick slices of buttered bread topped with sautéed mushrooms, a slice of tomato and a thick layer of grated cheese, ten minutes in a hot oven. The cheese bubbles, the bread edges crisp, ketchup and chives on top. The street-stall zapiekanka, only on bread and at home.
Your own work in that: 10 min.
- Preparation 10 min
- Baking 10 min
Step by step
0 / 5 donePrepare the ingredients
Heat the oven to 200 °C. Butter the slices on one side, grate the cheese coarsely, cut the tomato into 5 mm slices and dry them on a towel, slice the mushrooms.
Ingredients: 4 pcs bread or roll · 30 g butter · 150 g hard yellow cheese · 1 pcs tomato · 100 g button mushrooms · 1 pinch salt · ¼ tsp black pepper
TipA dried tomato means a crisp rather than soggy toast. Wet slices release water under the cheese and the bread turns spongy.
Butter, cheese, tomato dried, mushroomsSauté the mushrooms
Fry the mushrooms in a teaspoon of butter over high heat 4 minutes, until browned and their liquid has evaporated. Salt and pepper. Raw mushrooms on a toast release water and don't have time to cook.
Browned, no liquidBuild the layers
Lay the slices on a lined tray, butter side up. On each: mushrooms, a tomato slice, a pinch of salt and pepper, then a thick layer of cheese right to the edges. Cheese on top, not underneath: it shields the tomato from drying and browns.
Mushrooms, tomato, cheese to the edgesBake
Bake 8–10 minutes at 200 °C on the middle shelf, until the cheese has melted and begins to brown and the bread edges are crisp. For the last 2 minutes you can switch on the grill for brown spots.
Cheese bubbling, edges crispServe hot
A zigzag of ketchup, chives, straight onto the plate. Cheese cools and hardens within 5 minutes; these toasts wait for no one.
Ingredients: 2 tbsp ketchup · ½ bunch chives
Ketchup, chives, straight from the oven
Before you start
With ham or sausage
A slice of ham under the tomato, or a few slices of smoked sausage fried with the mushrooms: a more filling supper.
With garlic
Butter mixed with a crushed garlic clove and a spoon of chopped parsley: garlic cheese toasts, for tomato soup.
In a pan
No oven: fry the slices in butter on one side, turn, add the toppings and cheese, cover and keep over low heat 5 minutes until the cheese melts.
