French Food Friday - Croque Monsieur Bake

 

recipe and photo from here

I plan on making this recipe over the Easter weekend as I have a feeling we will crave something savoury after all that chocolate that we will be indulging in. 

Croque Monsieur Bake 

Ingredients 

• 6 slices ready-sliced multigrain brown bread
• 75 grams Dijon mustard
• 6 slices Gruyere cheese
• 3 slices ham
• 6 large eggs
• 1 teaspoon Maldon salt (or ½ teaspoon table salt)
• 80 ml full fat milk
• 4 tablespoons grated Gruyere cheese (or emmental or cheddar)
• 1 good sprinkling of Worcestershire sauce

Method

1. Spread each slice of bread with mustard. Make sandwiches by putting each slice of cheese against the mustardy bread, and a slice of ham between them. Cut each sandwich in half to make two triangles.
2. Squish the sandwich triangles into an ovenproof dish approx. 27 x 21cm x 6cm deep / 10½ x 8¼ inches x 2¼ inches deep.
3. Beat together the eggs, salt and milk (I measure out the milk into whatever the mustard's been in for maximum flavour penetration) and then pour this over the sandwiches tightly packed in the dish.
4. Cover the dish with cling film and leave in the fridge overnight.
5. Next morning, preheat the oven to 200°C/gas mark 6/400ºF. Take the dish out of the fridge and remove the cling film.
6. Sprinkle with the grated cheese and worcestershire sauce and bake in the oven for 25 minutes.

très bon vendredi à tous, Leeann x