When you love French onion soup (that is my greatest French onion soup recipe ever) and a superb grilled cheese toastie, you’ll love this French onion soup grilled cheese sandwich. Whereas sandwiches are sometimes assembled shortly with just a few components for a handy lunch, I personally take pleasure in going above and past to create one thing really extraordinary.
Onions are slowly braised in brown butter, bay leaves and thyme to make an unctuous base for this grilled cheese sandwich. Redolent of French onion soup this sourdough toasted sandwich is so scrumptious and definitely worth the little effort.
Combine the cheese with the onions earlier than the sandwich is assembled. This system ensures a uniform melting of the cheese, and every mouthful has the right ratio of cheese and jammy onions.
I’ve used La Motte sourdough bread which is solely good. Made in an historic method in a woodfired oven on the farm, this strong bread offers the right construction to include the wealthy onion and cheese filling.
Making a superb grilled cheese is getting the steadiness proper between completely heating and melting the filling with out over-browning the bread. This will occur if the pan is simply too scorching. It’s greatest to err on the facet of warning and toast it over medium to medium-low warmth. If needed, you may crank up the warmth if essential to get the extent of browning and crunch that you really want.
About La Motte Bakery & Bread:
La Motte homeowners and acclaimed baker Markus Farbinger (founding father of Knysna’s Île de Ache) have created an informal and welcoming artisan bakery and café pâtisserie in Franschhoek. The breakfast and light-weight lunch menu provide scrumptious and accessible choices, together with freshly baked bread from the wood-fired oven. You can too buy loaves and candy treats to take dwelling. Situated within the historic Jonkershuis, the café has a terrace and overlooks gardens, oak timber, and a farmyard-inspired playground, making it a family-friendly vacation spot.
I used to be thrilled to have the ability to collaborate with this stunning farm to supply just a few recipes that showcase their scrumptious bread. You may see the three wholesome tartines I made utilizing their ciabatta, wholewheat and sourdough.
This French onion grilled cheese sandwich recipe was impressed by the upcoming Bastille Day celebrations in Franschhoek. Take a look at my Instagram submit for the beautiful giveaway La Motte is doing.
This grilled cheese pairs completely with the La Motte Rosé Vin de Joie.
Tricks to make an ideal grilled cheese sandwich.
You may add so many fillings to your grilled cheese however listed below are just a few tips about the right way to make an ideal one:
- First, select the proper bread. Go for sturdy bread like sourdough or dense white bread, as it will maintain up properly to the warmth and preserve a superb texture.
- Subsequent, in case you are utilizing solely cheese, use a mix of cheeses for depth of flavour and gooeyness. Experiment with differing types resembling cheddar, mozzarella, mature Gouda, Dalewood Fromage Huguenot or Boland, or Gruyere.
- Butter the outer sides of the bread generously for a crispy and golden crust. Or unfold mayonnaise on the surface (it will crisp up the bread in an analogous method).
- Preheat the pan or griddle over medium warmth to make sure even cooking and melting of the cheese. Place a lid over the sandwich because it cooks to entice warmth and encourage thorough melting.
- Flip the sandwich solely as soon as, permitting all sides to turn out to be fantastically golden.
- Lastly, enable the grilled cheese to relaxation for a minute earlier than chopping it. This enables the cheese to set and prevents it from oozing out. By following the following pointers, you’ll be in your approach to creating the right grilled cheese sandwich each time.
Extra scrumptious recipes paired with La Motte Wine:
Creamy salmon pasta with spinach & capers
Roast child chickens with pork, pistachio & cranberry stuffing
Entire baked trout with herbs and lemon
My best-toasted sandwiches
Big grilled cheese with scorching honey butter
Toasted Cheddar cheese sandwich with buttery leeks
Jalapeno popper grilled cheese sandwich with bacon
Caramelised pear and Gorgonzola toasties
Recipes – serves 2
The perfect French onion grilled cheese sandwich
This sandwich captures the essence of a French onion soup to take advantage of scrumptious and decadent grilled cheese.
- Prep Time: 10
- Cook dinner Time: 30
- Whole Time: 40 minutes
- Yield: 2
- Class: Sandwich
- Technique: Frying
- Delicacies: N/A
3 White or brown onions, peeled, halved, and reduce into thinnish slices
30 gm salted butter + extra for spreading on the bread
2 bay leaves
3 tsp thyme leaves
3 – 4 Tbs medium of pale-dry sherry (elective)
¼ cup – 1/3 cup onion inventory (or veg inventory) to make use of if needed and to deglaze the pan
90–100gms Dalewood Fromage Huguenot, Gruyere, very mature Cheddar or Gouda, grated
1 tsp sherry or purple wine vinegar
4 slices of La Motte sourdough bread
4 sage leaves (elective)
Salt and black pepper
To make the filling, slice the onions after which warmth a big non-stick pan over medium-low warmth.
Add the butter and permit it to brown. It will give the onions a barely nutty flavour.
Add the onions together with the bay leaves and contemporary thyme after which season with salt and pepper. Flip the warmth all the way down to low.
As soon as the onions have softened and began to tackle some color (it will take about 10-Quarter-hour), add the sherry in case you are utilizing it and put a lid on the pan. Proceed to prepare dinner them for one more 10 – Quarter-hour. Stir often. If needed, add a splash of the onion inventory to deglaze the pan and stop sticking.
As soon as the onions are good and golden, take away the lid, and add a splash extra inventory. Enable them to prepare dinner till very golden brown, and sticky. The method to caramelize onion takes not less than half an hour, however this half could be made prematurely.
Decant the onions to a bowl to chill and take away the bay leaves.
As soon as the onions have cooled barely, add the grated cheese, and sherry (or purple wine) vinegar and stir to mix.
Butter one facet of every slice of bread. Dived the onion and cheese combination into 2 and unfold it thickly onto two of slices of sourdough. Make sure the buttered sides are on the surface.
In case you are utilizing them, press 2 sage leaves into one facet of every sandwich (that is elective).
Fry the sandwiches in a big skillet over medium to low warmth till golden and toasted and the filling is heat and melty. They need to take round 3 – 4 minutes per facet and preserve a detailed eye to forestall the bread from going too darkish earlier than the cheese has melted.
Alternatively, toast the sandwiches on a sandwich press or in an air fryer too.
As soon as the sandwich is a deep golden brown color, enable it to relaxation for a minute then slice and revel in.
Notes
The filling could be made prematurely and saved within the fridge till able to toast the sandwich.
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