The best cheese toastie recipe

[3Britnee]

I'm very very tempted to go off plan and go out for bread to make a cheese toastie.

I don't usually eat bread for blood sugar and weight reasons. There is no low carb bread here.

If I do, I want to maximise my taste experience 😂 I will have to offset it with all 10k steps on the elliptical trainer today, so it needs to be worth it.

I have a bit of grated mozzerella, so would put a slice of cheddar and mozzarella, chorizo, very very thin onion, very very thin green pepper and tomato to make pizza toasties.

Am I missing a trick somewhere? Is there a better combination? A cheese more suited to toasties?

I think I'm definitely going to the shop today 😂

Do you mean a toasted sandwich, or open-topped? I make cheese on toast for my husband, and I mix grated cheddar with a beaten egg and a dash of worcestershire sauce, then grill it.

Butter on the outside. So bread with butter side down, and I use a pan on the hob to cook mine. American grilled cheese style?

Works very well with sliced ham and cheese, bit of mustard, (on the inside!) would get messy if you put a load of ingredients in as you have to flip it over.

No, I mean a proper dirty white sliced bread in a sandwich toaster concoction.

Parmesan down first and toast the sandwich so it has a Parmesan crust.

Or make a cheese bechemal sauce and add your chorizo to it and put that in the middle...

really cheapo pre-grated cheddar is the best toastie cheese for texture. I mix with a decent mature cheddar for improved flavour. Butter on the outside, thick slice of ham, cooked in a Breville, eaten with picked gherkins on the side.

You need proper cheapo over processed white bread and the mixed grated mozzarella and cheddar. Oh that’s made me hungry.

I’m off to the shop.

@BelleClapper

You need proper cheapo over processed white bread and the mixed grated mozzarella and cheddar. Oh that’s made me hungry.

I’m off to the shop.

That's the mozzerella I've got.

I’m going to have a open faced cheese toastie with baked beans on top

I like mushrooms and gouda or edam with cheddar/mozzarella mix.

Thick white bread with Brie and chilli jam

Cheddar and marmite

Grilled cheese is so much better then a Breville/toasted sandwich.

White bread, grated cheese, Worcester sauce if you like it. Butter the bread on both sides, then a bit of oil in a frying pan and fry it, turning over regularly until it's golden brown.

Try Nigella's mozarella in carrozza. It's a massive faff and about a zillion calories but worth it.

My favourite everyday toastie is mozzarella (from a ball), tomato and thinly sliced onion.

Another favourite is cheese, ham and pineapple but I've got a feeling that will be a controversial choice!

DD made me an amazing cheese toastie the other day with four types of cheese slices- mature cheddar, Monterey Jack, mozzarella, Red Leicester and Dijon mustard, she buttered the bread on the outside and fried it so it was really crispy.

The bread was proper fresh white bread from a whole loaf, I don't do sliced.

I'm also off to the shop for bread...goodbye diet!

Two suggestions.

Heat a panini press, grate strong cheese over a crumpet, cover with greaseproof paper and heat until the cheese is just a bit crunchy at the edges. Bloody marvelous.

For a cheat's rarebit, mix grated strong cheese into creme fraiche along with your choice of mustard, lea & perrins or marmite and cook in a sandwich toaster.

Possibility a bit controversial, but cheese and hoi sin sauce in a breville is a staple in this house.

You have to try frying it in the pan with mayo on the outside...not butter, just mayo. It's amazing!!

Grated strong cheddar, English or whole grain mustard, Worcestershire sauce & an egg yolk. Add some fried onion if you like. Mix well.

Butter outside of bread and pile on the mix. Add the top slice & stick in the toastie machine until it's done to your liking.

@magicstar1 - YES! DS made us some 'pan toasties' the other week and they were amazing.

Probs going to be flamed for this, but I think I’m the only one who enjoys having cheese toasties with the cheapo cheese slices 😂 they go all gooey and are just delish. I like keeping it simple nothing else but buttered bread, cheese slices and whack in a frying pan till super crispy and serve with tomato sauce or a nice veg soup...yum!

Oh you bastards. Now I must go to the shop too. I'm going to have cheddar, ham, and jalapeños in mine.

DS is having a nap at the moment though, so I must wait forever for my fatty prize.

I've got some halloumi in the fridge. I'm considering a halloumi and pomegranate seed concoction as a starter before I can get the bread. Today will be cheestastic!

Sod the peppers and onions!
Slices of cheese and a spoon of beans! Hotter than the fires of hell so let it cool before you bite into it. If you're feeling extra adventurous add marmite

I think you can’t beat a good quality mature cheddar (I find Pilgrims tastes the best in a toastie) with red onion and shredded ham. I prefer a focaccia bread (Sainsbury’s do a good one), which doesn’t need butter adding, toasted in a flat sandwich press.

@Lorw

Probs going to be flamed for this, but I think I’m the only one who enjoys having cheese toasties with the cheapo cheese slices 😂 they go all gooey and are just delish. I like keeping it simple nothing else but buttered bread, cheese slices and whack in a frying pan till super crispy and serve with tomato sauce or a nice veg soup...yum!

I like those in pitta breads, done in the toaster. Sometimes I used to add ham.