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We Have Almost Everything on eBay. Class French Croque Monsieur recipe, toasted ham and Swiss cheese sandwich, topped with a bechamel sauce of butter, flour, milk, nutmeg, Parmesan and Gruyere. Croque Monsieur is a hot ham and cheese sandwich, done the French way! Béchamel sauce, ham, cheese and a smear of Dijon mustard, grilled until it's oozing, this sandwich is the king of grilled cheeses!

To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have croque monsieur (toasted ham and cheese sandwich) using 14 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Croque Monsieur (Toasted Ham and Cheese Sandwich):

1. Make ready For Sandwich
2. Prepare 4 slices white bread
3. Get butter, for brush
4. Get mustard, for brush
5. Get 2-4 ​slices of ham
6. Make ready grated mozzarella or gruyère cheese
7. Make ready red cheddar cheese, block (optional)
8. Make ready For Bechamel Sauce
9. Prepare 25 g (2 Tbsp) butter
10. Get 3 Tbsp flour
11. Make ready 200 ml (6.8 fl oz) milk
12. Prepare 1 cube chicken broth
13. Take 3.5 Tbsp hot water
14. Prepare 1 bay leaf (optional)

I found this easiest to do by putting the sandwich on a plate and buttering one side, flipping to butter the other. Press both sides of the sandwich into the shredded cheese and place on the griddle or skillet. Cook for several minutes, until golden brown then flip to cook the other side. Behold this quintessential French-bistro classic - the Croque Monsieur.

Steps to make Croque Monsieur (Toasted Ham and Cheese Sandwich):

1. 【For Bechamel Sauce】 Put 1 cube of chicken broth in a small bowl. Add hot water, and Stir well to melt the cube. Add 1 bay leaf; set aside.
2. Put butter in a small pot. Melt the butter on low heat. Turn off the heat and add flour, stir well until smooth. After smooth, heat it on low-medium heat. After it starts to bubble, stir well for 2 mins.
3. Add the milk in 4-5 parts. Knead well for 1-2 mins at 1st addition on low-medium heat. From the next addition, stir well until smooth on medium heat, then stir for another minute. After mixing all the milk, mix with a whisk to make it smoother.
4. Add chicken broth soup, heat it until bubbling up lightly while stirring. Use a spatula to scrape the edge and bottom off, fold into the sauce, and stir. Strain it (omittable). Remove the bay leaf. Seal it with plastic wrap to prevent drying, and let it cool. It’s more delicious if you let it sit in a fridge overnight.
5. 【For hot sandwich】 Lightly toast 2 slices of bread. Brush with butter and mustard.
6. Mix the bechamel sauce to smooth. Spread the bechamel sauce on the bread. Add ham and grated cheese.
7. Top with bread. Spread the bechamel sauce on the top layer of the bread. Add the grated cheese.
8. Finishing touches, grate the red cheddar cheese block on. Bake it at 230℃ / 446 F in a preheated oven for around 10 mins. Bake until cheese melts and golden brown. Please sprinkle pepper or dry parsley as you like.
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Cook for several minutes, until golden brown then flip to cook the other side. Behold this quintessential French-bistro classic - the Croque Monsieur. This iconic French sandwich is filled with Paris ham and French hard mountain cheese, grilled to perfection, then covered with a creamy Béchamel sauce and finished under the broiler. It's cheesy, gooey, chewy with crisp edges… in essence, it's irresistible. Put two slices of ham on two slices of the mustard-spread bread.

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