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Winemaker's toast

These oven-baked open sandwiches are topped with onions cooked in red wine, fried bacon and potatoes, finished with a thin layer of melted cheese.

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Last modified on: March 11^th 2012

For 8 opens sandwiches, you will need:

1 250 g onion
2 20 g butter
3 250 ml red wine
4 200 g belly (streaky) bacon
5 200 g cooked potato
6 8 slices bread
7 150 g cheese
Total weight: 1,470 grams

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Time required

Preparation	Cooking	Start to finish
36 min.	44 min.	1 hour 20 min.

Keeping:

A few minutes once cooked.

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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 10 min.

Peel, rinse and chop 250 g onion.

Melt 20 g butter in a medium-sized saucepan. then add the chopped onions, salt and pepper and cook for 5 minutes, stirring from time to time.

Stage 2 - 1 min.

Pour 250 ml red wine into the pan and stir well.

Stage 3 - 10 min.

Leave to cook uncovered on medium heat until the wine has evaporated.

Check seasoning and set aside.

Stage 4 - 7 min.

Cut 200 g belly (streaky) bacon into small pieces and pan fry lightly.

Set aside.

Stage 5 - 7 min.

Slice 200 g cooked potato and fry on both sides in the same pan as you used for the bacon. Ideally, you should not add any more fat and just use what has come out of the bacon. If there isn't enough, use a little oil.

Stage 6 - 5 min.

Cut 8 slices bread and arrange on a baking sheet.

Stage 7 - 5 min.

Preheat the oven to 200°C (390°F).

Begin the assembly: divide the onions between the slices of bread.

Stage 8 - 5 min.

Then the bacon.

Stage 9 - 5 min.

Then the potatoes.

Stage 10 - 5 min.

Finish with thin slices of any cheese you like.

Stage 11 - 20 min.

Put in the oven for about 20 minutes, until the cheese has melted and turned golden brown.

Stage 12

Serve hot, ideally with a green salad.

Remarks

The cheese can be any you choose! A few excellent French options: Comté, Morbier, Saint-Nectaire...

Nutritional information

% are calculated relative to a Recommended Dietary Intake or RDI of 2000 k-calories or 8400 k-joules by day for a woman (change to a man).

How much will it cost?

For 8 opens sandwiches : 10.59 €
Per open sandwiches : 1.32 €

Note : These prices are only approximate

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And to drink?: The same red wine as you have used to cook the onions.

Source

Home made.

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	Cooked potato: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Warm salad of potatoes and purple artichokes, Green Piedmont Salad, Crispy potato galette with leeks, Tartiflette, Croque-monsieur gourmand, ... All

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