Croque Madame
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Recipe type: Entree
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Serves: 2
 
Ingredients
  • 4 small slices bread
  • 3-4 oz gruyere cheese
  • 4 slices of ham
  • 3 tablespoons unsalted butter
  • 1 tablespoon flour
  • ½ cup whole milk
  • 1 teaspoon stoneground mustard
  • ¼ teaspoon freshly ground mustard
  • salt and pepper to taste
  • 2 farm fresh eggs
Instructions
  1. I place my bread slices on a cookie sheet on the middle rack under a hot broiler to make them drier and a bit toasted. After you remove them move the rack up closer to the broiler (second position). Keep the broiler heated. Slice half of the cheese and grate the other half on a fine grater. Melt one tablespoon of butter in a small saucepan over medium low heat. Begin another tablespoon of butter melting in a large skillet over low heat on a separate burner. Add the flour and stir into the butter until a thick paste is formed and the flour begins to toast a little. Add the milk a little at a time to form a thick sauce. Remove from heat and stir in grated cheese, nutmeg, mustard, salt and pepper. Place the bread slices on the heated buttered skillet. Top with the cheese sauce, sliced cheese, ham slices, and more cheese sauce. Cook a few minutes until bottom of bread begins to brown, lifting with a spatula to check. Move the bread to a cookie sheet and put under the hot broiler to melt and brown the tops. Meanwhile melt your remaining tablespoon of butter in the skillet where you cooked your sandwiches - it should still be hot. Fry two eggs over easy. Remove bread slices. Stack two on each plate and lay one egg on top of each.
Recipe by Tasting Pour by Jade Helm at https://tastingpour.com/2017/02/croque-madame-treveri-brut-prestige-winepw.html/