The Breakfast for Supper Grilled Cheese

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Breakfast. In sandwich form

Co-opting classic breakfast staples and applying them to other meals of the day has long been a tactic used in food trucks, diners and kitchens across the world, and it’s easy to understand why. Breakfast contains some of the tastiest, heartiest comfort food you can find. Sizzling bacon, fried eggs, runny yolk: just hearing these ingredients conjure up sunny Sunday mornings curled up with a classic breakfast.

Hypothesis

If we combine breakfast staples like bacon and eggs with a healthy helping of sharp cheddar on thick toast bread, we will create the perfect breakfast grilled cheese sandwich.

Breakfast Grilled Cheese Ingredients

Apply the following ingredient for one sandwich. Double or triple portions depending on how many sandwiches you would like to make:

  • 2 slices of bread (ideally thick breakfast toast)
  • 1 teaspoon of butter or olive oil
  • 1 large egg
  • 2 strips of bacon (Note: use turkey bacon or tofu bacon for a healthier alternative)
  • 1 cup shredded sharp cheddar
  • Hash browns or other breakfast side dish

Methodology

To create the perfect breakfast grilled cheese, follow these simple steps (estimated total cooking time 5-10 minutes)

  • On a stove, heat frying pan or skillet on medium-low
  • Add butter (or olive oil for a healthier alternative) to pan until melted
  • Fry egg in butter until consistency desired (recommended: yolk should be slightly runny)
  • Remove egg from pan and place on the side
  • Add bacon in pan and fry until soft yet crunchy
  • Remove bacon from pan but conserve some fat drippings
  • Combine bacon, egg and cheese into a sandwich
  • Place sandwich on frying pan and cook in fat drippings
  • Flip sides once bread has become golden (roughly 30-60 seconds)
  • Remove sandwich once cheese is melted
  • Serve with hash browns or other breakfast side dish

Conclusion

While sometimes messy and hard to stack, the breakfast grilled cheese experiment is a complete success. The key to success with this sandwich is making sure your egg is not too cooked, but cooked enough to not fall apart while combining the other ingredients into the sandwich. The savoury runny egg, combined with crunchy bacon and tangy cheesy cheddar make for a grilled cheese recipe you will rely on no matter what meal it is.

Published by Alberto Merola