Fish In The Hole Grilled Cheese
This recipe combines two classics: A simple, delicious grilled cheese and the fun and tasty Toad in the Hole. It makes for a great meal at breakfast, lunch or dinner and is perfect for cooking in a cast-iron skillet over an open fire, but also works just as well at home or in the RV. It’s also just a lot of fun to make!
Hey, everybody. Jimmy Kennedy with go outside. We’re here. The Anchorage South Hero, Vermont. Once again, on Lake Champlain, And we’re going to show you something that I’ve never really done before. Very few times. And it’s a version of a grilled cheese sandwich. And there’s a lot of sandwiches kind of like this. The Monte Cristo, the croque madame, the croque monsieur, a couple of fancy French sandwiches. But basically, they all end up using egg either as French toast or egg on top. But I got to thinking about it, and we like to do the toad in holes at home where you just make a cut in a bread drop egg in it. And it’s great for kids or anything. We have the fish today. You can use any shape you want round. We have lots of fish, cookie cutters, but any shape kind of use it. You know, if it’s Valentine’s Day and you’re out camping just use a heart, you can get these cookie cutters anywhere super simple, just like making a grilled cheese. So that we got the hole right there get some cabbage, seriously sharp cheddar on this thing today. It should be more than enough. You can use any cheese you want. I like the sharp cheddar. Especially for just a grilled cheese. You can add ham to this, sausage, anything. Venison patties. Are great on this sandwich. We’re just going to let this toast up, and then we’re going to cook the egg right in there, right All right, so our cheese is melting. We got our egg cooked. I flipped that, we also cook in the hole, like, whatever you use for a cookie cutter, always cooked that up. Use it for garnish. You just. You just use it for a snack. You can use any kind of sauce on this sandwich. You don’t have to use anything. I mean, you can just put mustard on it, but if you wanted to, you could.Cheese sauce is really good. Hollandaise sauce. Excellent. For a fancy breakfast. But I just like to use a little dry rub. This is just basic barbecue. Dry rub. It’s so good on eggs. You’d be surprised. Maybe not do that. Then we’ll get this sandwich topped off. So basically got us a grilled cheese with a toad in a hole on top and that’s supposed to be looking like a fish, but had a little run up.Just put that right on top.
Just going to let it melts a little bit. Then we’ll plate it up. And I’ll use a dry rub, and then I’ll just put some barbecue sauce on it. It’s so good. Breakfast lunch, dinner, anything. It’s so easy to make on a campfire. This took like 5 minutes out here. If that. Right in the cast iron pan, you can’t beat it. Give it a whirl.
Ingredients:
- 4 slices of your favorite bread
- 2 slices of your favorite cheese (or enough cheese to cover two slices of the bread)
- 2 eggs
- 2 or 3 tablespoons butter
Directions:
- When at camp, start by building a nice, hot fire and let it burn down until you have coals before you start to cook. I like to lay a grate or grill over a couple of larger logs with coals in the middle so I can add wood to the bed of coals if necessary.
- When you have a good bed of coals, set the cast-iron pan or griddle on the grate. Get the pan nice and warm and melt a couple of tablespoons of butter.
- With a paring knife or small cookie cutter remove the center — about a 3-inch circle or other shape — from two of the slices of bread. When camping, I like to use fish- or animal-shaped cookie cutters. If at home, I’ll use shapes that are relevant to a holiday, like hearts for Valentine’s Day or Christmas trees for around Christmastime, but the best thing to do is to let the kids choose the shape.
- Butter one side of each of the slices of bread. Place them, buttered side down, in the pan or on the griddle, and cook until lightly browned.
- Flip the toasted sides over and crack an egg into the slices with holes. While the egg is cooking, place the cheese on the slices without holes. As soon as the egg is set a little, use a spatula and carefully place the egg slice on top of the cheese slice. Cover the pan with a lid for just a few minutes and the cheese will melt quicker and the egg will finish cooking.
- Remove and serve as a special breakfast, lunch or snack. You can also use the “holes” for decoration and/or extra snacks.
Prep time: 5 to 10 minutes
Cook time: 10 to 15 minutes
Yield: Makes two big “sandwiches”
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