French toast "cordon bleu"

A recipe from cooking-ez.com

For 4 people, you will need:

• 1 4 slices bread
• 2 parsley
• 3 fresh coriander (cilantro)
• 4 4 tablespoons breadcrumbs
• 5 salt
• 6 pepper
• 7 4 slices ham
• 8 80 g cheese
• 9 4 eggs
• 10 50 g liquid cream
• 11 50 g butter
• 12 4 tablespoons oil
• Total weight: 900 grams

Times:

Preparation	Cooking	Start to finish
25 min.	15 min.	40 min.

Step by step recipe

• 1: Cut 4 slices bread fairly thick. This is a good way to use up bread that has started to go dry.
  Split each slice horizontally, but without cutting all the way through, to form a "pocket".
  Set aside.
• 2: Chop the parsley and fresh coriander (cilantro) .
• 3: Mix the chopped herbs with 4 tablespoons breadcrumbs, salt and pepper.
  Cover and refrigerate until needed.
• 4: In a frying pan, fry 4 slices ham lightly on both sides.
• 5: Fill each slice of bread with a slice of ham and slices of cheese (Comté shown here).
• 6: In a bowl beat 4 eggs briefly with 50 g liquid cream, salt and pepper.
• 7: Pour the beaten eggs into a shallow dish and put the egg and breadcrumb mixture in another.
• 8: Dip both sides of the sandwiches first in the beaten egg...
• 9: ...then in the breadcrumb coating.
  Prepare all the sandwiches like this.
• 10: Pour 50 g butter and 4 tablespoons oil into a large frying pan on medium heat.
  When hot, lay the sandwiches in the pan and cook until golden brown on the first side.
• 11: You can turn the heat down at this stage and cover the pan with a sheet of aluminium foil for 2 or 3 minutes to help melt the cheese, but this is not essential if you are using a soft-paste cheese (see below for more about this).
• 12: When the underneath is nicely browned, turn the sandwiches over and cook the other side.
• 13: Serve piping hot.

Remarks

For the cheese, use whatever you prefer, but do note that if you use a hard-paste cheese (Comté, Emmental, etc.) the texture will be less "melting" than with a soft-paste cheese (Saint-Nectaire, Mont d'Or, etc.) - something children usually love.

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