This toastie is impressed by a consolation meals basic: tartiflette. Layers of creamy mashed potato, candy caramelised onions, bacon and – the crowning glory – oozing Reblochon cheese, make this a critically good sandwich. Serve with pickles and mustard to stability the richness.
Make 1 toastie
2 slices sourdough bread
100g smoked bacon lardons
2 giant potatoes, peeled and lower into even-sized chunks
100ml cream
¼ tsp grated nutmeg
1 crushed garlic clove
75g butter
2 onions, sliced
White wine splash
1 thyme sprig, leaves picked
3 thick slices Reblochon cheese
Pickles and mustard, to serve
Add the onions to a frying pan with 25g butter and a pinch of salt. Cook for 40 minutes, stirring repeatedly, till deeply caramelized. Add the thyme and white wine and permit the wine to cook dinner off. Set apart.
Add the bacon lardons to a small frying pan and permit the fats to render over low warmth, stirring repeatedly, till crisp. Set apart.
Cook the potatoes in loads of boiling salted water, then drain.
Warm 25g butter with the cream and garlic clove.
Strain the garlic clove and mash the potatoes with the cream and butter. Season effectively.
Heat a skillet or frying pan and add the remaining butter.
Take one slice of sourdough and high with a layer of mashed potato. Add the onions, then the Reblochon cheese and bacon lardons. Add the ultimate slice and switch to the pan.
This temptingly good recipe is from Helen Graves @foodstories on Instagram, writer of BBQ Days and Nights, editor of Pit Magazine.
Cook for five minutes all sides, or till golden brown and crisp. Serve with cornichons and mustard.Find extra fabulous recipes and about French cheese at CNIEL (Centre National Interprofessionnel de l Economie Laitière) the French Dairy Interbranch Organization, is a company acknowledged by French and European public authorities which brings collectively gamers from the French dairy sector (milk producers, cooperatives and personal firms, folks in mass retail, commerce and institutional catering).
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