Monte Cristo Sandwich

By EricS52

Ingredients

• 2 servings
• Although this sandwich can be quartered and deep fried, many of the earliest recipes, like this one adapted from The Brown Derby Cookbook (Doubleday, 1949), call for frying it in a skillet, like French toast.
• RECIPE INGREDIENTS
• 2 eggs
• 1/4 cup milk
• salt and freshly ground black pepper
• 5 tablespoon butter, softened
• 6 pieces thinly sliced white bread
• 4 thin slices cooked turkey
• 4 thin slices cooked ham
• 4 thin slices swiss cheese
• Confectioners’ sugar
• red currant jelly
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Details

Servings 2
Adapted from cooking.com

Preparation

Step 1

DIRECTIONS

Lightly beat eggs and milk in a shallow bowl. Season with salt and pepper and set aside.

For each sandwich, lightly butter 3 slices of bread on both sides. Place 2 slices of turkey and 2 of ham between 2 slices of bread. Top with 2 slices of cheese and add last slice of bread. Trim crusts, secure with toothpicks, and cut in half on the diagonal.

Melt 2 tablespoon butter in a large nonstick skillet over medium heat. Dip sandwich halves, top and bottom, in batter. When butter foams, place sandwiches in skillet and fry until golden brown, about 2 minutes. Add remaining 2 tablespoon butter to skillet, turn sandwiches, and fry for 2 minutes more. Transfer to plates, sprinkle with confectioners’ sugar, and serve with jelly.