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Grilled cheese

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

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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Duration

25 min.

Difficulty

Easy

Last modified on: June 8^th 2016

Step by step recipe Ingredients Duration Nutritional facts Cost Comments

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

Times for this recipe

Preparation

15 min.

Cooking

8 min.

All in all

25 min.

Preparation 15 min.

Cooking 8 min.

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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!

Keeping: Should be eaten immediately.

Source: Home made.

Nutritional information

	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats	Calories	Energy
Per 100 g	44 g RDI=69 %	200 g RDI=76 %	45 g RDI=63 %	332 kcal RDI=17 %	1,391 kJ RDI=17 %
Per piece	76 g RDI=118 %	340 g RDI=128 %	77 g RDI=106 %	564 kcal RDI=28 %	2,364 kJ RDI=28 %
Whole recipe	305 g RDI=470 %	1,361 g RDI=514 %	310 g RDI=425 %	2,258 kcal RDI=113 %	9,455 kJ RDI=113 %