Recipe: Italian Grilled Cheese Sandwiches (George Foreman grill)

George Foreman Grilled Cheese Sandwiches
rec.food.recipes/Jake Winters/2003

Follow this recipe for a high-class sandwich that is crispy, delicious and only takes three minutes to cook.

First, plug in your grill.

You can use thinly sliced Italian bread or regular packaged bread. Just dot one side of each piece with garlic spread, lightly splash with olive oil and spread all that with a knife. Then sprinkle with oregano, speckle with pesto and give each piece one more spread with your knife.

Place one piece wet-side down on a plate and put on as much sliced Monterey Jack or pepper jack as you would for a regular grilled cheese sandwich. Then add a little shredded mozzarella. If some cooks over, it won't hurt the grill.

Assemble the sandwich and sprinkle just a little garlic salt on top. At this point you're basically done.

The grill is already hot. You just put your sandwich on it, close the lid and set a timer for two minutes. Whether you press the lid down hard is up to you. I usually do. It flattens the sandwich a little and you get well-defined grill marks. When the timer goes off, don't hurry. That timer doesn't know anything anyway. It's just a loudmouth. Take the sandwich off when it's crispy.

Serve on the plate you used while assembling the sandwich and it's like free garnish.

More often than getting fancy like this, I just make a regular George Foreman Grilled Cheese with yellow cheese, a little melted butter and salt. Once you know how to do that, the possibilities are endless. BLT, turkey melt, ham and cheese.... That Italian style recipe is just one I came up with on my own.