Easy Open-Faced Tomato Feta Sandwiches
Easy open-faced tomato feta sandwiches with fresh thyme and olive oil on toasted country bread make a quick flavorful summertime meal. Sometimes the simple things are also the most delicious!
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- 🔎 A quick look at this recipe
- 🌟Why this recipe works
- 🍅 Ingredients you need
- 📝 Ingredient notes
- 💡 Ingredient substitution ideas
- 👩🏻🍳 How to make this recipe
- 🤔 Recipe FAQs
- 🍽️ What to serve with this recipe
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- Easy Open-Faced Tomato Feta Sandwiches
🔎 A quick look at this recipe
- What It Is: A fresh, flavorful open-faced sandwich featuring ripe tomatoes, feta cheese, and olive oil on toasted country bread.
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Total Time: 10 minutes
- Servings: 1 serving
- Calories: 357
- Good For: Summer lunches, Light summer dinners, Meatless meals, Ideas for summer tomatoes.
🌟Why this recipe works
I’ve found that whenever you set out to make something, there are ingredients, and there are INGREDIENTS.
Sometimes…actually almost all of the time…using the best ingredients for whatever you are cooking up can turn the ordinary into the kind of meal that you eat slowly and with your eyes closed because it is just that good.
These tomato sandwiches are the perfect example – a beautifully simple combination of toasted country bread smothered in slices of rich heirloom tomatoes, crumbly tangy feta cheese, a drizzle of olive oil and a sprinkle of fresh thyme.
And if that wasn’t delicious enough, the whole thing can be yours in about 10 minutes.
🍅 Ingredients you need
📝 Ingredient notes
- Tomatoes: If you can capture an heirloom tomato for this recipe, that is the very best. Otherwise a big beefsteak tomato will work.
- Feta Cheese: Look for this tangy sheep’s milk cheese in the cheese section (usually where they keep the fancy cheese). You are looking for the block, not the crumbles.
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See the recipe card for full information on ingredients and quantities and nutritional information.
👩🏻🍳 How to make this recipe
This is almost more of a suggestion than a recipe 😄 but here we go anyway!
STEP 1: Toast a slice of country style bread and drizzle it with olive oil.
STEP 2: Layer on a couple of tomato slices, some slices of feta cheese, a sprinkle of salt and pepper and some fresh thyme…and enjoy!
🤔 Recipe FAQs
Heirloom tomatoes are historic tomato varieties that have been passed down through generations, often from seeds saved by gardeners and farmers. Most supermarket tomatoes are specifically grown by mixing seeds for a regular size and durability, but they lose some flavor during that process. Heirloom tomatoes are known for their unique shapes, and colors and most of all for their rich tomato flavor. Look for them at your local farmer’s market during tomato season.
100% yes! Goat cheese, fresh mozzarella, ricotta, or burrata are all delicious alternatives.
Nope nope nope. Make them them just before serving to keep the bread from becoming soggy.
Technically, but toasting adds crunch and helps prevent the tomatoes from soaking into the bread. But you do you when it comes to toasting!
Fresh thyme provides the best flavor, but if you don’t have any on hand a small pinch of dried thyme will work.
Pop your question in the Comments section under the recipe card and I will answer pronto!
🍽️ What to serve with this recipe
You can turn this into the perfect soup and salad combo with a cup of zucchini gazpacho, or if you are looking for something warmer, this super easy chicken noodle soup.
A glass of strawberry lemonade on the side is perfection, and for dessert? Let’s have a piece of blueberry molasses cake!
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Easy Open-Faced Tomato Feta Sandwiches
These open-faced tomato sandwiches combine sweet tomatoes, salty feta cheese and crusty country bread…simple and delicious!
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Total Time: 10 minutes
- Yield: 1 serving 1x
- Category: Lunch
- Method: No Cook
- Cuisine: American
- Diet: Vegetarian
Ingredients
- 2 slices country bread
- 1 local tomato, sliced thickly
- Sliced feta cheese
- Coarse salt and fresh ground pepper
- Fresh thyme
- Olive oil
Instructions
- Toast the bread and then rizzle the toasted bread with olive oil.
- Layer a couple of tomato slices on each piece of bread. Top with feta cheese.
- Sprinkle with salt, pepper and fresh thyme. Drizzle with a little more olive oil.
- Enjoy!
Notes
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- Tomatoes: If you can capture an heirloom tomato for this recipe, that is the very best. Otherwise a big beefsteak tomato will work.
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- Feta Cheese: Look for this tangy sheep’s milk cheese in the cheese section (usually where they keep the fancy cheese). You are looking for the block, not the crumbles.
This is the perfect summer sandwich! So light and the crunch of the bread works perfectly with the tomatoes. Will definitely be making again!
Thanks Rachel! Isn’t tomato season delicious? :)
I don’t quite know how I stumbled across your website, but what I do know is that I have spent the last few hours browsing all of your recipe pages! I have to say, everything you post looks absolutely delicious (including all the recipes with bacon – something I can’t seem to find a good relationship with). I can’t wait to try this one out, as feta is one of my favorite ingredient!
Katharine, I’m so glad you found me! And yes, this sandwich is the perfect summer lunch – hope you love it. :)
Oh, that looks so good! I have tomatoes and some feta I marinated, and a nice sourdough baguette which will be crunchy and stand up to tomato juices and olive oil really well. I can already taste it (and feel the juices running down my chin). Excellent, excellent idea.
Thanks, Kate!
I love your description – now I want another one!!
I’ve had my eye on this since the issue came out last year but was waiting for the perfect summer tomatoes to make it with. With a dish this simple, you only want to use the best since the ingredients are really going to shine!
I would LOVE to see your picture of this – I know it would be gorgeous!
Love the feta tomato combo :)
Two great tastes that taste great together!
I had something very similar to this last week but with the addition of bacon. ;-)
It was soooo good I had it on two days! Unfortunately my German thyme drowned in its pot in this deluge-crazed summer we’ve had so I had to sub in fresh basil, which apparently doesn’t mind all that water. Excellent meals.
Well, everything is better with bacon – and basil!
Yum!!! This sandwich looks incredible!
It’s my favorite summer sandwich!
Yep, that pretty much sums up my vision of heaven. I can’t WAIT until my tomatoes are ripe. Bread, cheese, tomatoes, and fresh basil will be a constant.
We are having the first fresh tomatoes of the season this week – hurray!
Mmm. I have been enjoying Greek salads for the past couple of weeks, made with barrel aged feta and heirloom tomatoes, bread on the side.
Just perfect for all this hazy hot humidity!