We would like to share some quick tips & ideas from our development bakery chefs showing you how easy it is to use and enhance our products...

This month shows you how to use our Country White Sourdough Loaf (Code:62356) to create Gourmet Cheese on Toast. However this serving suggestions can be used with most of our Sourdough loaves found on Page 58 - 59 of our catalogue.

Feel free to send in your own adventurous ideas for our sourdough loaves to marketing@delicedefrance.co.uk

Gourmet Cheese on Toast

A slice of toasted country white sourdough bread topped with a creamy cheese sauce with a watercress salad and crispy Parma ham.

Ingredients

1 - Country white sourdough bread (Code: 62356)
2 - Butter
3 - Plain flour
4 - Single cream
5 - Seasoning
6 - Chopped parsley
7 - Garlic
8 - Parma ham
9 - Grated  Emental cheese
10 - Watercress.
11 - English mustard.
12 - Red onion

Preparing the bread

1 - Bake the bread in a pre-heated oven at 196°c for about 18 minutes until golden brown. Then allow to cool.

Preparing the sauce

1 - Finely chop the red onion.
2 - Melt the butter in a pan and add the chopped onion and gently fry
3 - Fold the flour into the butter mix and allow cooking out
4 - Pour in the cream until the required thickness of sauce is reached
5 - Add the grated Emental cheese holding some back to top the sandwich at the end
6 - Add about a teaspoon full of English mustard
7 - Add the chopped parsley.

Finally, preparing the sandwich

1 - Cut a slice of the bread about two centimetres thick, Place either under a grill or on a Panini grill.
2 - Once grilled rub the surface with the crushed clove of garlic
3 - Spread a little butter over the slice.
4 - Spread a thick layer of the prepared cheese sauce over the bread
5 - Sprinkle  the remaining Emental cheese and chopped parsley over the top
6 - In a hot dry pan place two slices of the Parma ham and allow to crisper
7 - Place the prepared sandwich under the grill until the cheese begins to caramelise
8 - Once grilled top with the watercress and finish with the crispy slices of Parma ham