Croque-monsieur with Béchamel Sauce (White Sauce)+*

Yield: 2 servings
Oven time and temperature: 450 F (230 C) for 15 to 20 minutes (?)

Ingredients

• 4 slices of sandwich bread (baked in mini loaf pan)
• 9 tbsp (150 g ?) béchamel sauce ... (made with 25 g butter/25 g flour/30 ml milk)
• 9 tbsp grated gruyère cheese
• 2 slices of york ham or lunch meat
• butter

Directions

1. Preheat the oven
2. Lightly butter a side of bread and place it on a sheet of aluminium foil facing the buttered side down.
3. Lightly butter the other side.
4. Spread 1.5 tbsp sauce on the bread.
5. Spread 1.5 tbsp cheese on top of sauce.
6. Place a slice of ham on cheese.
7. Spread 1.5 tbsp sauce on the bread.
8. Spread 1.5 tbsp cheese on top of sauce.
9. Lightly butter another slice of bread.
10. Place the bread on top of the other bread buttered side up.
11. Spread 1.5 tbsp sauce on the bread.
12. Spread 1.5 tbsp cheese on top of sauce.
13. Repeat the process on another set of bread slices.
14. Cover the croque-monsieurs with a sheet of alminium foil.
15. Bake for 15 minutes.

Note

Recipe modified from this recipe

For a version without bechamel, refer this recipe