Grilled Cheese Recipe by Chef Michael Symon

cheese

🥗Healthier: reduced-fat cheese

💰Cheaper: processed cheese

Reduced-fat cheese cuts calories while still melting well.

butter

🥗Healthier: olive oil

💰Cheaper: margarine

Olive oil is healthier, while margarine is often cheaper.

Fry spicy Italian salami (soaperada) in a pan to render the fat.

Remove the crispy salami from the pan.

Crack an egg into the pan with the rendered fat, adding a pinch of salt and cracked black pepper, and cook sunny side up.

Slice Wisconsin Swiss cheese and Italian prosciutto thinly.

Prepare sourdough bread for the sandwich.

Layer crispy soaperada, egg, and prosciutto on one slice of sourdough bread.

Add thinly shaved onions that have been run under ice cold water to remove some bite.

Add a generous amount of Wisconsin Swiss cheese on top of the layers.

Close the sandwich with another slice of sourdough bread.

Add butter to the pan and place the sandwich down, pressing it to get a golden brown crust.

Flip the sandwich once the bottom is golden brown and continue cooking until the cheese melts.

Add fresh basil leaves on top of the melted cheese after flipping the sandwich.

Drizzle hot sauce (Shasha sauce) on top of the sandwich.

Place the sunny side up egg on top of the sandwich after cooking.

Cut into the sandwich to reveal the melted cheese and oozing egg.

Cooking Techniques

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