Serious Eats: Recipes
Very Thin Grilled Cheese Sandwiches
While the Very Thin Grilled Cheese Sandwich is great on its own—especially if you're into more cheese than bread—it makes its appearance here as part of the recipe for our Hamburger Fatty Melt. Quadruple this recipe if you're making preparing 4 Fatty Melts as called for there.
Note: Because the bread is very thin, these sandwiches cook much faster than the grilled cheese sandwiches you may be used to making.
Very Thin Grilled Cheese Sandwiches
- makes 2 sandwiches or enough for 1 Hamburger Fatty Melt -
Ingredients
Butter, softened
4 slices Pepperidge Farm Very Thin white bread
4 slices Kraft Deli Deluxe American cheese (yellow, not white)
2 slices tomato (optional)
Procedure
1. Heat nonstick pan or griddle to medium. Spread just enough butter to cover both sides of each slice of bread. (Yes, both.)
2. Place 4 bread slices in pan, and cook for about 30 seconds (or work in batches of 2 if your pan isn't big enough). Flip slices and place one slice of cheese on top. (Placing cheese on hot side helps melt it.) If you are adding tomato slices to your grilled cheese sandwiches, this is the time to layer them in.
3. Sandwich the 4 slices together to form 2 sandwiches. Cook about 2 minutes per side, or until sandwiches are golden brown on each side.