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    Home » Breakfast, Brunch, Dinner Recipes » Croque Provençal | How to make French Grilled Cheese & Tomato Sandwich

    Croque Provençal | How to make French Grilled Cheese & Tomato Sandwich

    Published: Aug 9, 2015 · Modified: Oct 27, 2020 by Srivalli · 9 Comments

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    We are starting the second week of BM#55 with a tour around French Cuisine. I didn't have enough time to read through all the courses, so I was looking out for a specific course of the meal and decided it was best to start with a sandwich. I have quite an affinity towards French, it was my second language for four years, starting with school and continued in college.

    However, the only words I seem to remember right now is Bonjour and Mademoiselle. Of Dame, from le dame sans merci, which seem to have struck in memory forever!  Would you believe if I say I rather wanted to write pages and pages on my memories associated with French and finally as it seems to happen off-late with me, I ended up working on this post the night before?

    Well, you got to believe it! Life has suddenly become very hectic. Athamma has left for her daughter's place and everything has been even more tightly wrapped to manage! Anyway, with all things apart, I didn't want to delay writing this post and with a moment's free, which has become quite rare, I sat down to cook myself this sandwich and write about it right away!


    Trust me, the steps are so simple that I felt it was not worth bothering to do step by step. The sandwich for the day is based on Croque-Monsieur. It's a grilled ham and cheese sandwich, topped with bechamel. It was popular in French cafes and bars as a quick snack. The cheese typically used is Gruyère, however, I used processed cheese slices. As with any recipe, there are many variations to this.

    I decided to make Croque a provençal or with a tomato. This sandwich is made with toasted bread, cheese, sour cream, and tomato slices. It's grilled till crispy. Additionally one can add eggs as well.

    I kept sour cream/mayo, tomatoes, and cheese.

    Croque Provençal

    Ingredients Needed

    Wheat Bread Slices - 2
    Tomato Slices - 4 nos
    Cheese Slices - 2
    Pepper powder to taste
    Sour cream / Mayo - 1 tsp
    Salt to taste
    Butter - 1 tsp

    How to make French Grilled Cheese & Tomato Sandwich

    Spread the bread mayo/ sour cream. Put a slice of cheese on one piece of bread.

    Add tomato slices. Sprinkle with salt, pepper.

    Cover tomato slices with another slice of cheese, then cover with another piece of bread.

    Heat pan with butter spread butter on top of each side of bread.

    Grill until sandwich is brown on both sides and cheese is melted.

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    Croque Provençal | How to make French Grilled Cheese & Tomato Sandwich

    Cuisine French
    Author Srivalli
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    1. vaishali sabnani says

      August 09, 2015 at 11:45 pm

      The sandwich looks interesting , like the combo used, it can never fail! And for sure would have loved to read that long post , but yes sometimes life is hectic????

      Reply
    2. rajani says

      August 10, 2015 at 12:12 am

      I can imagine life getting hectic without athamma. The tiny little moments of peace are going to get rarer and rarer! I am glad you still got a post done despite so much happening in the background!

      Reply
    3. Chef Mireille says

      August 10, 2015 at 3:49 pm

      Who can say no to cheese. perfect sandwich

      Reply
    4. Sarita says

      August 10, 2015 at 11:19 pm

      What a easy breakfast recipe.. Sure it must have tasted great.

      Reply
    5. Pavani N says

      August 12, 2015 at 12:56 am

      Sandwich looks simple and delicious.

      Reply
    6. sushma says

      August 12, 2015 at 12:33 am

      Quick and yummy breakfast.

      Reply
    7. Sapana Behl says

      August 13, 2015 at 8:39 pm

      Cheese snadwich is the favorite one.Nicely done.

      Reply
    8. Harini-Jaya R says

      August 14, 2015 at 6:53 pm

      Interesting Sandwich Mademoiselle 🙂

      Reply
    9. Sowmya :) says

      August 17, 2015 at 1:26 pm

      All I can remember from French at school is merci beaucoup (I think that's thank you very much!). Love your sandwich. Looks delicious 🙂

      Reply

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