Europe 1 6:47 p.m., January 27, 2024
It’s a great classic that Nathalie George, the author of “The Kitchen on the 6th Floor”, invites you to make. She offers you her grandmother Gigi's recipe for croque-monsieur, with white ham and Emmental cheese.
Nathalie George’s croque-monsieur
Ingredients
- Soft bread
- Butter
- Grated cheese
- White Paris ham
White sauce (without milk)
- Butter
- Wheat flour
- Water
- Pepper
Variants:
- Country bread
- Lightly salted raw ham
- Cooked mountain cheese, as little salt as possible
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Brown slices of sandwich bread in melted butter (in a pan).
Take a dish that goes in the oven, put a slice of sandwich bread browned with butter, put grated Emmental on top, then ham (be generous, it's better), then again grated Emmental and finish with a slice of bread cooked in butter as at the beginning.
Prepare a white sauce:
Melt butter in a saucepan, do not let it brown.
Add 2 to 3 spoons of flour depending on the quantity you want to obtain, mix well, add a little hot water. The quantity of water is difficult to define, not all flours absorb water in the same way.
Be careful to keep it smooth.
Add a little butter, if you didn't put it all in at the beginning, then add grated Emmental cheese (approximately 50 gr, depending on the amount of sauce)
Add pepper and little or no salt.
Top the croque-monsieur.
Place in the oven for 15 to 20 minutes. Temperature following oven from 160° to 200°.