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Open Faced Veggie Sandwiches

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By: Joanna Cismaru •4/9/22 10 Comments

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Open Faced Veggie Sandwiches – guilt free and delicious lunch. Healthy open faced sandwiches with cucumbers, tomatoes, cream cheese and feta cheese.

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Open Faced Veggie Sandwiches

Happy Mother’s Day to all mothers.

The weather has been incredible here in Calgary. We’ve had a beautiful and warm day for Mother’s day. On such gorgeous day I don’t always feel like cooking, so most of the times I turn to sandwiches.

Here’s a sandwich recipe, if you want to call it that, that is super healthy. It’s full of flavor and it looks great too.

It’s like a salad on a sandwich. 🙂

Literally!

I made a salad with chopped up tomatoes, cucumbers, blue cheese, olive oil and salt and then I spread some cream cheese on a couple slices of dark bread and added some sweet pea shoots. Then I simply took a spoon and spooned the salad over the slices of bread.

Couldn’t be any easier.

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Of course I could have eaten the two separately, the bread and the salad, but it was more fun this way and it looked so cute. And you can eat a lot of these and not feel guilty. Just pile on the salad really high, and don’t forget the sweet pea shoots, which have virtually no calories, so add as much as you want.

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Open Faced Veggie Sandwiches

Prep 5 minutes minutes
Cook 0 minutes minutes
Total 5 minutes minutes
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Open Faced Veggie Sandwiches – guilt free and delicious lunch. Healthy open faced sandwiches with cucumbers, tomatoes, cream cheese and feta cheese.
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Ingredients

  • 2 slices dark rye bread
  • 2 cocktail tomatoes (chopped in small cubes (1 cm))
  • 1 cup english cucumber (chopped)
  • 1 cup sweet pea shoots (chopped)
  • 2 tablespoon cream cheese
  • 2 tablespoon blue cheese (crumbled)
  • 1 tablespoon olive oil
  • salt and pepper to taste

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Instructions 

  • In a small bowl, add the chopped tomatoes and cucumbers and toss. Add the olive oil, salt and pepper and toss.
  • Spread a tablespoon of cream cheese on each slice of bread. Top each slice of bread with half a cup of the sweet pea shoots.
  • Spoon half of the salad on each slice of bread and serve.

Nutrition Information

Serving: 1servingCalories: 252kcal (13%)Carbohydrates: 19g (6%)Protein: 9g (18%)Fat: 16g (25%)Saturated Fat: 6g (38%)Polyunsaturated Fat: 1gMonounsaturated Fat: 7gCholesterol: 20mg (7%)Sodium: 346mg (15%)Potassium: 204mg (6%)Fiber: 5g (21%)Sugar: 3g (3%)Vitamin A: 870IU (17%)Vitamin C: 87mg (105%)Calcium: 85mg (9%)Iron: 1mg (6%)
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Cay
Cay
Posted: 11 years ago

Hey I gotta say this makes the perfect meal! Well balanced as well as tasty, plus I’ve never seen any recipes including sweet pea sprouts! I just normally throw them in a bowl and munch out like they’re potato chips. (: Good to see a good recipe with them, kudos!

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Joanna Cismaru
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Posted: 11 years ago

Thanks Cay 🙂

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Jill
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Posted: 11 years ago

Do you know what calories are per serving? Thanks

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Posted: 11 years ago

According to calorie count it’s 215 calories per sandwich, but it could depend based on which type of bread you use.

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Jill
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Posted: 11 years ago

Thank You!

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Fredrique
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Posted: 11 years ago

Made this (without sweet pea shoots) as I had everything else on hand. Had it on a pumpernickel slice – divine! Such a great, light lunch.

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Posted: 11 years ago

It is isn’t it? Glad you liked it. 🙂

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Crystal @ A Lovin' Forkful
Crystal @ A Lovin' Forkful
Posted: 11 years ago

5 stars
Great sandwich. This is just the thing I want for lunch on warmer days. : )

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Hira
Hira
Posted: 11 years ago

Yum! Looks AMAZING!
Definitely planning to make this for lunch this week. I was actually planning on finally starting that diet(I swear!).
But I just have one question – what the heck are sweet pea shoots and where can I get them? I’m pretty sure I’ve never seen them at a store before!

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Joanna Cismaru
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Posted: 11 years ago

Hi Hira,
Sweet pea shoots are the shoots of a small pea plant. You may find them in the same area where you find the alfalfa sprouts, they usually come in the same type of container. You’ve probably seen them used as garnish a lot. 🙂

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