French Food Friday - Croque Monsieur
The sun is shining and the weekend beckons. For me Croque Monsieur is one of our favourite weekend recipes and is perfect for brunch.
If you?ve never had a Croque Monsieur then you may be wondering what it is. Simply put, it?s a ham and cheese sandwich with Dijon mustard and topped with béchamel sauce. It?s then toasted to perfection ? bubbly and golden brown.
You already know how to make a béchamel sauce as we made one last week, it was the base for the cheese souffle.
As far as the bread is concerned the choice is yours, we tend to use either a sour dough type bread or white bread that is thickly sliced and referred to as pain anglais. You can really is whatever you prefer.
The choice of which cheese to use is very important as you want to use a cheese which has a bit of flavour. We tend to favour Gruyère, as it is a firm, slightly elastic mountain cheese with grates well and has a lovely slightly sweet, nutty flavour.
To get the crunch (croque monsieur translates to crunchy man) we toast the bread before hand but you do not have to do this and may prefer your sandwich with less 'crunch".
Makes 2Ingredients50g butter, at room temperature4 slices of bread, crusts cut off1 tbsp plain flour100ml milk80g Gruyère, gratedNutmeg, to grate2 tbsp dijon mustard2 slices of good hamMETHOD1. Preheat the grill to medium-high, line the tray with foil and put the butter in a pan over a medium-low heat to melt it. Brush one side of each slice of...
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