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Extra-Cheesy Grilled Cheese
Toasting the inner faces of the bread first starts the cheese melting before the sandwich is closed, so a slow second fry gives crisp golden outsides and a fully molten centre, with an optional lacy crust of grated hard cheese.
- YieldServes 2 · 2 sandwiches
- Hands-on18 min
- Total18 min
- Difficulty
Ingredients
- 30 gunsalted butter, divided into 4 equal pieces
- 4 slicesgood white, wholemeal or rye sandwich bread
- 115 ggood melting cheese such as American, young cheddar or Monterey Jack, sliced
- to tastekosher salt
- 15 ghard aged cheese such as Parmigiano-Reggiano or Pecorino, finely gratedoptional
- to tastebrown mustard, to serveoptional
To serve
- 500 mltomato soup, warmedoptional
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