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Monte Cristo Breakfast Sandwich
RECIPE COURTESY OF ALEX GUARNASCHELLI
Level: Easy
Total: 45 min
Active: 35 min
Yield: 2 sandwiches

Ingredients

The French Toast:
3 large eggs
3/4 cup whole milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
4 slices (at least 1/2-inch-thick) white or egg bread
2 tablespoons unsalted butter

The Sandwiches:
3 tablespoons unsalted butter
5 large eggs, lightly beaten
Kosher salt
4 thin slices Swiss cheese
8 thin slices Black Forest ham
4 thin slices cooked turkey breast
Maple syrup, for serving

Directions

Make the French toast: Whisk together the eggs, milk and vanilla in a medium bowl until smooth.

Place the bread slices in the bowl of egg mixture and coat both sides. Heat 2 skillets (each large enough to hold 2 slices of bread) over medium heat. Add half of the butter to each. When the butter begins to foam and brown slightly on the edges, arrange 2 slices of bread in each skillet. Cook until the undersides have browned, 3 to 5 minutes. Turn the slices over and cook for an additional 3 to 5 minutes, reducing the heat to medium-low if the bread is browning too quickly. Transfer the French toast to a plate and let cool slightly. Wipe out the skillets. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.

Cook the sandwiches: Return the skillets to medium heat and add about 1 tablespoon butter to each. Allow the butter to melt and froth, swirling to coat the bottoms of the skillets. Divide the eggs between the skillets and spread evenly on the bottoms. Arrange two slices of the French toast, slightly apart, in each skillet. Cook, shaking the skillets a little bit so the eggs don’t stick, until the eggs on the bottom of the skillet sear and firm up, 1 to 2 minutes.

Finish: Divide and spread the remaining butter on the tops of the 4 slices of French toast. Slide a spatula underneath the eggs and flip everything over so the buttered French toast slices are now on the bottoms of the skillets. Season with salt. Layer on top of one piece of French toast per skillet with the cheese, ham and turkey. Slide the spatula under one slice of the French toast and fold it over the other so it looks like a sandwich! Repeat with the second skillet. Transfer the skillets to the oven until the cheese melts and the centers get hot, about 3 minutes.

Transfer the sandwiches to a cutting board and cut each in half. Serve two halves on each plate with maple syrup for drizzling and dunking.

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Alex Guarnaschelli’s Monte Cristo Breakfast Sandwich | The Kitchen | Food Network

This is a play on a monte cristo sandwich i pre-made some slices of french toast which are just dipped in a little egg milk and vanilla i’m heating two pans and they should be pans that are big enough to just hold two slices of bread and in this case french toast that’s

Gonna be actually the bread for our egg sandwich so i’m just melting about a tablespoon of butter in each of the two skillets and i have here five large eggs and i’m just pouring about half of the eggs into each of the skillets now in the middle of the eggs

I’m gonna park two pieces of french toast okay so we let this cook for a minute or two and let the eggs kind of sear and cook a little bit on the bottom okay and you can shake the skillet a little bit just to make sure that the eggs aren’t sticking anywhere

That one feels good this one feels good just for a little extra lusciousness we’re gonna spread a little bit of butter right on top of the french toast because this is gonna get flipped over and become the bottom or really the outside of the sandwich i love the sound of butter

Spreading on french toast you don’t need a lot our eggs are pretty cooked we’re gonna go underneath and flip it over okay my daughter thinks i’m cool again guys that’s good okay and now this is actually an opportunity to season the eggs a little bit this is really just

A beaten egg with nothing in it so tiny pinch of salt because this is now the inside of our sandwich a grade and now a little swiss cheese i bought some black forest ham so old school few pieces of each two pieces of swiss a little bit of ham more more ham than

That more ham all right more ham she says don’t be skimpy she’s an armchair quarterback which i like a couple pieces of turkey for protein you don’t i know you don’t care about turkey i know but it’s kind of nice in here don’t it adds a contrast and we fold it

Up look at that how’s that look aves impressive i’m impressed so here they are piping hot i feel like you need to be the judge i’m gonna let you do the honors i mean i feel like shouldn’t they be cut in half well yes and then i have some maple syrup if you

Feel like i like that and i chose grandma and grandpa’s china and grandpa’s towel and grandpas tell real boomer things so that we have old things and new things mixed together because that’s how you and i are so you want to cut it in half and just

Put it on the plate what do you think yeah okay scooch scooch thank you hot in the middle yeah let’s see that turn that out before you oh yeah piping hot that’s the way it should be oh my god yeah it’s a hot sandwich baby

And then what do you think do you put the maple syrup on it yes i mean why not i like the way you’re doing that very elegantly i think you’re the one that’s gonna be very elegant on your hands so is this a fork and a knife or i think it is no

You don’t want a fork in a knife it’s so lame it’s lame all right i’m gonna eat it with a fork and you’re gonna eat it with your hands yeah oh my god oh look at the cheese oh come on we gotta we got a cheese pull apart moment here oh yeah

Oh yeah oh my god all right get in there better be good i’m scared um how is it wow it’s great it’s good it’s really good you kind of are you upset that it’s good yeah do you lie i’m best this is great this is very well made isn’t the ham

That black forest ham it goes so great and the turkey and the cheese i usually i usually i hate swiss cheese but this is good no this is a good place we actually took the courage to melt it which most people wouldn’t yeah the kitchen goals is to bring that

Viral trend and just add a bit of humanity your own twist to it you