- It's so gorgeous.
So you're stuck at home, right?
And you're making sandwiches.
But not the kind of sandwiches
you really wanna have.
Well I've got a grilled ham and cheese
that's worthy of that bougie hipster cafe
that you're missing so much.
And I'm gonna show you how it's made,
and how I style it at home.
You can't have a grilled ham and cheese
without your bread and your butter.
In addition, we've got shredded Gruyere,
crumbled goat cheese, our deli sliced ham,
caramelized onions.
That's your secret weapon right there.
Dijon mustard and some spinach,
cause we're adults and we need to be healthy, right?
And a cast iron skillet.
But no worries, if you don't have a cast iron skillet,
just use a non-stick pan.
I only have two people in my household
so I'm only making two sandwiches,
but this recipe makes enough sandwiches for four people.
So I have four slices of sour dough bread.
Use whatever kind of bread you have.
Use whatever kind of bread you want,
but sour dough's great.
Adds a really great crispy golden crust
when you cook it in the skillet.
The first thing I'm gonna use is my Gruyere cheese.
I shredded my Gruyere cheese.
I think it gets a really nice melty texture.
So on one of your slices of bread
you're gonna put your Gruyere cheese.
So on top of the Gruyere cheese
I'm gonna put our ham slices.
If you like to lay your ham flat,
go ahead and do that.
I like to fold mine to give it
a little bit of extra texture.
These are gonna be big sandwiches, I just have to say.
I don't think I can make a small sandwich.
These bread slices are pretty big
so I've got about four slices of ham on each sandwich.
So our other two slices of bread,
we're gonna add our Dijon mustard.
Dijon mustard is zippy and tangy,
and delicious, and it's totally
like an adult bougie thing to use.
But it's also just really great
on a grilled ham and cheese sandwich.
On top of the Dijon mustard
we're now gonna add the caramelized onions and goat cheese.
So these are caramelized onions that I made.
I did them the day before
because they do take a little bit of time,
and I wanted them to cool down completely
and that whole thing.
But, if you don't wanna make your own caramelized onions,
don't worry about it, there' a lot
of places that you can get a savory jam
or marmalade, like an onion jam
or a garlic jam, or a bacon jam, go crazy,
and it would be just as delicious.
And yes I'm using my tweezers, don't judge.
And now we're gonna add our goat cheese.
I love goat cheese.
If you don't like goat cheese it's okay,
you can use whatever kind of cheese you like.
But, you know, for a bougie grown up
grilled ham and cheese,
I thought that having a little goat cheese
would be extra special and fancy.
So for our last thing,
and this is totally optional,
but we are all grown ups
and we need some vegetables in our life.
So I have spinach in my refrigerator,
but you can definitely use arugula,
I think that would be delicious on this sandwich,
but I don't have any.
So spinach, arugula, some sort of like leafy green
that's gonna hold up well being cooked.
And just put it right on top of the goat cheese.
From there we're gonna combine
these sandwiches together carefully.
Make one giant sandwich,
and get ready to cook it in the skillet.
Oh don't mind me, I'm just over here buttering some bread
one handed, while holding a phone.
Bread is buttered.
Just the top side.
And now we're gonna put it
in our cast iron skillet.
Butter side of the sandwich,
that's the part that goes down first.
Oh yeah man.
We're looking for crispy, golden bread,
not catching my hair on fire for sure.
And melty cheese.
And now you're gonna butter your top piece of bread.
This is considered multi-tasking, right?
It's time to flip.
You ready?
It's so gorgeous.
I think she's ready to pick up now.
When your grilled cheese
or your grilled ham and cheese is done,
because it's hot, you don't wanna just put it on a surface
like a baking sheet or a cutting board.
You put it on a wire rack, the condensation
will not make the bread soggy,
it will have the chance to cool.
Here they are,
and don't they look absolutely amazing?
That's a good looking sandwich there kids.
All right so then we have our little photo set back here.
I have a background, I have a surface,
I have a bougie sparkling water beverage.
I have my cutting board
and my spatula over here.
There's my dog.
This is kind of the moment of truth.
So we've got our goat cheese down here at the bottom,
spinach, caramelized onions, ham,
and then there's the Gruyere right there.
I'm gonna show you my final beauty
before I take my picture.
So pretty.
So delicious.
So bougie.
Thanks for watching you guys.
I hope that you enjoyed watching me make
my bougie grilled ham and cheese.
I hope you guys like this recipe.
It's delicious, I already know.
Oh my God.
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Is it good?
- So good.