Method

• Croque Madame is a hot toasted sandwich with ham and cheese and a fried egg on top.  Croque Monsieur does not include an egg! Try this deliciously indulgent hot sandwich with ham and cheese.

  • Start by making your bechamel. In a frying pan, melt the butter over a medium/high heat. Once it’s foaming, add the flour, and whisk until combined
  • Cook the butter-flour mixture for a couple of minutes, then slowly start whisking in the milk. Once combined turn the heat down to low, let it bubble for a few mins, then season. Set aside
  • Preheat the grill to 250 C.
  • Lightly toast your bread, then start building the sandwich. Spread a thin layer of mustard on both pieces of bread, followed by a thin layer of bechamel. 
  • Load up one side with roughly torn pieces of Better Naked Ham, followed by shredded gruyere. 
  • Top it with the other piece of bread. 
  • Melt a knob of butter in a fresh pan, and toast the sandwich until the cheese has melted. 
  • Remove from the pan, then place on a baking tray. Top with more bechamel and more gruyere, then finish under the grill until everything is melted and bubbling. 
  • While the sandwich is grilling, fry up an egg.
  • Serve the sandwich with the egg on top, and finish with chives and black pepper

   

• TO MAKE VEGGIE

  Replace Better Naked Ham with Better Naked Rashers ‘without the oink’.

  Click here for stockist list.