Nothing says consolation greater than a recipe loaded with gooey cheese & crispy French bread. This winter season I made my easy baked casserole model of the basic croque-monsier sandwich. For those who aren’t acquainted with the standard recipe, it’s a scorching ham & cheese sandwich (sometimes gruyère or swiss) with the bread dipped into overwhelmed eggs earlier than pan frying on both sides. Like a grilled cheese meets French toast!
This casserole places all that goodness into one dish with a dijon & garlic flavoured custard as the bottom. It’s hearty sufficient to serve for any meal of the day and may be ready as much as 24 hours upfront earlier than baking! You should definitely use a top quality French bakery type baguette & enable the bread to go stale for a day. Utilizing a day outdated baguette as an alternative of recent will make sure the custard will get soaked up.
For the mustard I like to make use of a powerful dijon, however complete grain mustard will work as nicely. Don’t use the usual yellow mustard as it’s way more acidic & doesn’t present the identical flavour a dijon or complete grain mustard would.
For serving, you may take pleasure in it as is or serve with an additional facet of dijon for many who love mustard as a lot as I do. I used a top quality maple deli ham, as I really like how the sweetness pairs with the savoury mustard custard & cheese!
With a dish nearly as good as this, convey on the snow days! I can’t wait to dive in, and so that you can make this too.
Cheers!
Croque-Monsieur Breakfast Bake
Prep: quarter-hour
Bake: 40 minutes
Serves: 6
Substances:
- 3 tablespoons unsalted butter, room temperature
- 1 stale french baguette, sliced into 1/2 thick items
- 200 grams high quality deli ham, thinly sliced
- 2 cups complete milk
- 1 cup whipping cream
- 3 massive eggs
- 3 massive egg yolks
- 2 cloves of garlic, grated
- 2 tablespoons dijon mustard
- 1 pinch floor nutmeg
- Salt & pepper, to style
- 2 cups gruyere cheese, freshly grated
- 1/2 cup parmesan cheese, freshly grated
- Recent herbs, to garnish
Instructions:
- Preheat oven to 325(f) levels & grease a 9 by 12-inch baking dish.
- Evenly butter both sides of the baguette slices & switch to the ready baking dish in an overlapping staggered sample.
- Slice the deli ham in half lengthwise & fold every bit into quarters. Place the ham slices between every slice of baguette.
- In a big mixing bowl whisk collectively the milk, cream, eggs, egg yolks, garlic, dijon, nutmeg, salt & pepper till nicely mixed.
- Pour combination evenly into the baking dish. Prime with gruyere & parmesan cheese. Let stand for quarter-hour earlier than baking to permit the baguette to absorb the custard.
- Bake for 40 to 50 minutes, till the custard has set. Let stand for quarter-hour earlier than garnishing with herbs & serving.
