Open Confronted Sandwich with Sugar Beets and Shaved Fennel

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This tremendous straightforward, 7-ingredient, plant-based (vegan) Open Confronted Sandwich with Sugar Beets and Shaved Fennel relies on the meals traditions of Scandinavia, the place half of my household lives by means of my husband Peter. If you go to nations in Scandinavia, comparable to Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland, and Finland, one of many first issues it’s possible you’ll discover on the menu are lovely open confronted sandwiches, obtainable in house kitchens, work cafeterias, and eating places throughout the land. These scrumptious sandwiches are inventive affairs, boasting a medley of colourful meals balanced gracefully on high of a slice of rustic entire grain bread. That single backside slice of bread is commonly topped with a swirl of creamy stuff, brilliant greens, jewel-toned root veggies, and delicate recent herbs. These sandwiches are sometimes constructed upon the standard bread known as crispbread (in Swedish, its known as knäckebröd)—a long-lasting, shelf-stable arduous bread that helped provide sustenance to chilly Scandinavian nations over the centuries. This agency bread can maintain as much as quite a lot of toppings on fairly open confronted sandwiches. Crispbread continues to be a key characteristic of Scandinavian conventional diets, and you will discover it in lots of nicely stocked supermarkets within the U.S. as we speak.

So, why not flip to open confronted sandwiches as fairly as this? If you go away off the highest slice of bread in your sammy, you possibly can exhibit all of that prettiness. Who must cowl up beautiful vegan sandwich fillings like these: crisp leaves of lettuce, creamy white vegan cheese, zesty fuchsia pickled beets, slivers of licorice-flavored fennel, a dollop of cultured almond yogurt, and a sprig of lacy fennel fronds. One other advantage of open confronted sandwiches is that you would be able to actually heap up the colourful plant meals in your sandwich. You will get a complete platter of those wholesome sandwiches finished in minutes.

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These fairly vegan Open Confronted Sandwich with Sugar Beets and Shaved Fennel are primarily based on the traditions of Scandinavia—make them up in 10 minutes with solely 7 components!

8 slices entire grain crispbread (i.e., Wasa)
8 small leaves lettuce
8 ounces vegan white cheese (i.e., feta, Monterrey jack, or cashew cheese), sliced into 8 (1- ounce) rectangles
1 (16-ounce) jar sliced pickled beets, drained
1 small fennel bulb, shaved or sliced into very skinny slices, reserving fronds for garnish
½ cup cultured plain almond yogurt, unsweetened, unflavored
8 fennel fronds

Prepare entire grain crispbread on chopping board.
High every crispbread with: 1 lettuce leaf, 1-ounce rectangle vegan cheese, 4 slices pickled beets, 4 slices fennel, 1 tablespoon dollop almond yogurt, and fennel frond.
Serve instantly.
Makes 4 servings (two open confronted sandwiches every).