Monte Cristo Sandwich. A quick and easy sandwich with ham, turkey and swiss slices, dipped in an egg/milk mixture and fried to a golden brown. A hot alternative to the usual lunch or snack. Try it with berry jam on the side.
It has a nice thick batter and is absolutely delicious.
Enjoy hot sandwich with currant jelly or make a currant sauce with currant jelly, water and heavy cream.
In addition to dusting the sandwich with powdered sugar, we also dipped them in raspberry jam.
You can have Monte Cristo Sandwich using 6 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Monte Cristo Sandwich
- It's 3 pieces of bread loaf.
- You need of Butter, to spread and to put in the pan.
- You need 1 piece of ham.
- You need 1 piece of cheddar sandwich cheese.
- Prepare of Cream cheese, to spread.
- You need of Strawberry jam, to spread.
I had gotten that idea from reading other recipes for Monte Cristo sandwiches on the internet, and it definitely improved it. If you've never had one, a Monte Cristo sandwich is. One of my husbands favorite filling, baked, french toast style, sandwiches filled with cheese, ham, turkey & mustard. Raspberry preserves is a must for him.
Monte Cristo Sandwich instructions
- Warm ham in toaster around 5 minutes in medium heat..
- Spread butter in both one side of the first bread loaf. Get a cooking pan, put butter and toast the bread (side of the one with butter spread facedown)..
- Put the cheddar sandwich cheese on top. Set aside..
- Get the second bread loaf, butter up one side and again toast on the pan. Put the ham on top. Set aside..
- Get the third bread loaf. Put butter on both sides. Toast it quickly in the pan. Put the three loaves together and put back on the pan. Just add butter on the pan everytime you toast the bread so that it doesn’t burn..
- Serve with cream cheese and strawberry jam..
Could be eaten for breakfast, lunch or dinner. This is a LESSER FAT Monte Cristo recipe being baked and not fried full of flavor! I also like to buy the low salt cold cuts or use fresh baked turkey leftovers sliced thin. A Monte Cristo sandwich is a fried ham and cheese sandwich, a variation of the French croque-monsieur. This Monte Cristo sandwich is a classic French toast-style sandwich.
