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Name: Grilled cheese
Prep time: 13 min
Cook time: 8 min
Total time: 21 min
Yield: 4 Grilleds cheese
Cuisine: french
Ingredients: 150 g cheese; 150 g mozzarella; 8 slices Sandwich bread; 60 g butter

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Grilled cheese

This is the classic American pan-fried sandwich, the "grilled cheese".

The French have their own, slightly different speciality: croque-monsieur.

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Last modified on: June 8^th 2016

For 4 Grilleds cheese, you will need:

1 150 g cheese
2 150 g mozzarella
3 8 slices Sandwich bread
4 60 g butter
Total weight: 680 grams

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Preparation	Cooking	Start to finish
13 min.	8 min.	21 min.

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Should be eaten immediately

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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 5 min.

Grate 150 g cheese (Cheddar here) and 150 g mozzarella.

Stage 2 - 3 min.

Lay 8 slices Sandwich bread out on the worktop and use a brush to coat one side of each slice with the melted 60 g butter.

Stage 3 - 4 min.

Turn one slice of bread buttered side downwards and cover with grated cheese...

Stage 4 - 1 min.

... then sit the other slice of bread on top, buttered side outwards.

Stage 5 - 3 min.

Put the sandwiches into a hot frying pan...

Stage 6 - 3 min.

...and brown on both sides.

Stage 7 - 2 min.

Turn down the heat, cover the frying pan and leave for 2 or 3 minutes to melt the cheese in the middle.

Stage 8

These fried sandwiches are tradionally served cut into triangles and fried to brown the edges as well (but this is not essential.

Stage 9

Serve piping hot, crusty on the outside and melting in the middle.

Remarks

For the cheeses, the ideal combination is Cheddar with mozzarella, but you can try any other combination - be adventurous!

Nutritional information

% are calculated relative to a Recommended Dietary Intake or RDI of 2000 k-calories by day for a woman (change to a man).

How much will it cost?

For 4 Grilleds cheese : 3.06 €
Per Grilled cheese : 0.77 €

Note : These prices are only approximate

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Source

Home made.

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	Sandwich bread: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Genoese croque-monsieur, Spinach Croque-monsieur , Eggs Benedict , Croque-monsieur, Pain perdu, ... All

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