The Best Caprese Chicken Sandwich You’ll Ever Make! (With Homemade Pesto)

Caprese Sandwich with Chicken – Craving a gourmet sandwich that’s bursting with fresh flavors? Look no further! In this video, I’ll guide you through making a mouthwatering Caprese sandwich featuring tender chicken, homemade pistachio pesto, creamy burrata cheese, and perfectly roasted tomatoes, all nestled in a delicious, freshly baked crust. Follow along for a step-by-step guide to creating this elevated sandwich experience.

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Ingredients:

For the Bread:
Pizza dough (enough for one sandwich) [00:04]
Olive oil (for brushing and the pan) [00:17], [00:31]

For the Chicken:
1 Chicken breast [00:48]
Kosher salt [00:48]
Black pepper [00:48]
Olive oil or high-heat oil (e.g., tallow) [00:55]

For the Roasted Tomatoes & Arugula:
Sliced cherry tomatoes [01:47]
Garlic [01:47]
Kosher salt [01:53]
Black pepper [01:53]

Red wine vinegar (for deglazing) [02:25]

Arugula (stems removed) [02:42]

Kosher salt [02:47]

For Assembly:
Pistachio pesto (recipe linked in the video’s description) [03:34]
Thinly sliced red onion (soaked in water) [04:06]
Burrata cheese [04:21]
Olive oil (for drizzling) [04:59]

Step-by-Step Guide:

Prepare the Bread: Brush your pizza dough with olive oil, fold it in half, and place it on a lightly oiled cast iron pan. Bake in an oven preheated to 500°F (or as hot as possible) until cooked through [00:04].

Cook the Chicken: Season a chicken breast with kosher salt and black pepper. Cook in a pan with olive oil over medium-high heat for 5-7 minutes per side, or until it reaches an internal temperature of 165°F. Remove from the pan, tent with foil, and let rest [00:48].

Sauté Tomatoes and Arugula: In the same hot pan (with the heat off), add sliced cherry tomatoes and garlic. Season with salt and pepper and cook for about a minute until they start to char [01:47]. Remove the tomatoes. Deglaze the pan with red wine vinegar, scraping up all the flavorful bits [02:25]. Add arugula and a pinch of salt, wilting it slightly in the residual heat [02:42].

Assemble the Sandwich:

Carefully open your cooked bread [03:22].
Spread a generous layer of pistachio pesto on the inside [03:34].
Add a layer of wilted arugula [03:50].
Place the roasted tomatoes evenly [03:57].
Distribute the soaked, thinly sliced red onion [04:06].
Gently spread pieces of burrata cheese [04:21].
Top with sliced cooked chicken breast [04:33].
Add a few more tomatoes and a drizzle of olive oil, if desired [04:49].
Close the sandwich and enjoy! [05:05]

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Look at that. Oh yeah. That’s what we’re making. This is the pizza dough that I make every single Friday. I have this recipe up on my YouTube channel and I will definitely also leave you a link at the end of the video for it. Going to brush this with just a little bit of olive oil. Fold it kind of in half. Doesn’t have to be perfect. Beautiful. And this is going to go onto my Camp Chef cast iron, which I am going to put just a little bit of olive oil down again. Put that bad dude right on top. This is going into my oven at 500°. Put your oven as hot as you can get it and wait for it to cook. While our bread cooks, we’re going to go ahead and cook our chicken breast. So, I have kosher salt and black pepper. This is going down in a little bit of olive oil. You could use tallow or whatever high heat oil you want to use. I’m going to go ahead and add a little bit of kosher salt to the backside of this guy. A little bit of black pepper. And we’re going to leave home for 5 to 7 minutes on this side. So, here we are about 5 minutes in. That is entirely sexy. I did add a little bit of tallow to the pan just cuz my olive oil is getting a little bit hot and that does raise the smoke temperature on it. Chicken comes out of the pan. We’re looking for 165 for the temp. That is absolutely beautiful. I’m going to put a tent of aluminum foil over top of it and into this nice hot pan. And I just turned the heat off. You got to control your temperature. So, this is plenty hot. I turned off the heat. I’m going to add in some sliced cherry tomatoes and a little bit of garlic. So, tomatoes. And they are going to spatter. So be careful because they have water in them. Little salt, little pepper. Keep these around for a minute. When these are starting to get a little color on them, you can see some of them are starting to get a nice little kind of char. They are ready to come out of the pan. And I am going to delaze a little bit of red wine vinegar. You know, scrape that goodness up. See all that? We want to catch it before it burns. That is beautiful. And now I’m going to add in a nice pile of arugula. I pulled the big stems off of this. Tiny bit of kosher salt. No need for pepper because arugula is super peppery already. And we are just going to wilt this down a tiny little bit with the heat that is left in the pan. My heat is turned off right now. You don’t even need your heat on because the arugula is going to cook down with a pretty minimal amount of heat. That is looking gorgeous. All right, out of the pan it goes. Here’s our bread. Fresh out of the oven, looking all sexy and ready to stuff. I’m going to move it over to a cutting board. So, here we are 10 minutes later. Cut this chicken breast up. All right, let’s assemble this bad dude. So, here is our beautiful piece of crust. I don’t want to open it up too much cuz it’ll break. And I also have some pistachio pesto, which I made yesterday. And I will absolutely leave you the recipe for this because it is fantastic. And by the way, this pesto recipe is enough for two of these, depending on how thick you like your pesto, I guess. We have our arugula. Try to kind of spread it out. You don’t want it, you know, one big clump. Make sure it get down in there. I have my tomatoes. I also have some thinly sliced red onion. And this has been soaking in water. I always soak my red onion in a little bit of water. Otherwise, I feel like it overpowers whatever I put it on. That is looking sexy already. Here we have our bara. And I’m not going to do the whole cut into it thing cuz I want it to go nice and even on here. But oh, look at that. Okay, so I’m going to kind of Yes. Spread them. Get them going on there. I’m going to put some chicken right on top of that. Maybe a few more tomatoes. Little bit more pesto. Little drizzle of olive oil just for good measure. Close her up. [Music] Yum. There it is. So sexy. So that is our delicious sandwich. Hey, be sure to check out the next video and happy cooking everyone.