Grilled cheese is no longer only a lunch food!
This breakfast grilled cheese sandwich is made with buttery griddled bread, melty Edam cheese, crispy bacon, some thinly-sliced Roma tomato, and two perfectly-cooked sunny-side-up eggs.
The following recipe makes two very large sandwiches.
Cheesy Breakfast Grilled Cheese
Grilled cheese is no longer only a lunch food! This breakfast grilled cheese sandwich is made with buttery griddled bread, melty Edam cheese, crispy bacon, some thinly-sliced Roma tomato, and two perfectly-cooked sunny-side-up eggs.The following recipe makes two very large sandwiches.
Ingredients
- 1 tsp vegetable oil
- 6 slices bacon, (cooked & crispy)
- 5 Tbsp salted butter, (fully softened)
- 4 slices bread of choice
- 4 slices Edam cheese
- 4 slices American cheese
- ½ Roma tomato, (thinly-sliced)
- 4 whole eggs
- Freshly-ground black pepper, (to taste)
- Kosher salt, (to taste)
Instructions
- Heat the vegetable oil in a large saute pan, and add the 6 slices of thick-cut bacon.
- Cook the bacon until it is crispy, and reserve on paper towels.
- Butter all four slices of bread on both sides with the softened butter.
- Lightly griddle the first side of the bread in the saute pan with the bacon fat on medium heat, until it is lightly golden brown.
- *This first side that is toasted and golden brown in color will go on the inside of your sandwich. The other side of each piece of bread will be griddled once the sandwich is assembled with the bacon, cheese, and tomato.
- Remove the bread that is toasted on one side from the griddle, and add the slices of Edam and American cheese, along with the crispy bacon you cooked earlier, and the thinly-sliced tomato.
- Slowly griddle the grilled cheese on medium-low heat until it is golden brown on both sides, and the sliced cheese is fully melted.
- While the grilled cheese sandwiches are finishing on the stovetop, cook 4 sunny-side up eggs on the stove in a nonstick pan with some butter, and remove them from the heat.
- Season the cooked eggs with Kosher salt & freshly-ground black pepper.
- Finish cooking the grilled cheese sandwiches, and carefully cut them in half.
- Open up each half of the grilled cheese, and add a cooked sunny-side-up egg to each half sandwich.
- *Each sandwich here will contain two sunny-side up eggs.
- Eat immediately, with extra napkins and maybe some ketchup with hot sauce on the side for dipping.
Notes
This sandwich is definitely best when eaten immediately after it is made.