If you’re tired of making the same old sandwich for lunch, you might just need to get more creative.

Last week, we brought you a dessert recipe that requires fewer ingredients than the average chocolate cake. This week’s at-home dish of the week will change up your typical peanut butter and jelly or turkey and cheese sandwich using only a few items from your fridge.

I pulled out turkey and pesto – the core ingredients for a turkey pesto sandwich. You can make it in less than five minutes and can dress it up with whatever you find at home.

The ideal turkey pesto sandwich recipe calls for two slices of bread. I used white bread because it was what was available in my pantry, but sourdough, whole wheat or ciabatta are excellent substitutes. You’ll also need basil pesto, four to five grape tomatoes, two slices of oven-roasted turkey breast and two slices of mozzarella cheese.

If you don’t have tomatoes or cheese in your fridge, the sandwich still tastes great without them, but feel free to substitute the mozzarella for whatever cheese you have available.

You’ll first need to toast the bread while melting the mozzarella cheese. For those using toaster ovens, place the mozzarella slices on the bread while it toasts. For those using frying pans, apply butter to one side of the bread, opposite the side with the cheese. Using medium heat, allow the bread to cook until golden brown. 

While the toast cools, slice the tomatoes into halves. Then, slather basil pesto across each slice and top with turkey and tomatoes. I layered my ingredients like a lasagna following this pattern: bread, mozzarella, basil pesto, turkey slice, tomatoes, turkey slice, basil pesto, mozzarella and bread.

Finally, cut your sandwich diagonally – triangles always seem to taste better – and enjoy.

If you eat it right after preparation, the turkey tastes fresh and the pesto and cheese create a creamy blend. The basil pesto sauce adds an extra dimension of basil, garlic, parmesan, pine nuts and pecorino to the already-savory meat. Toast the bread well enough and it’ll give the sandwich an extra crunch.

Although these portions are intended to feed only one person, you can start on one half in between online classes and then finish the other half as a pre-dinner snack. Alternatively, you can double the recipe and enjoy a meal with whoever you’re spending your quarantine with.