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This is how you make a French Melt with caramelized onion

French Melt caramelized onion

Say wine, snacks or haute cuisine and the gourmands at online food magazine FavorFlav know where to drink, how to eat it and what to cook. This time our cheffies serve you: this is how you make a French Melt with caramelized onion.

We are all cooking so much more often, and in our never-ending quest for the ultimate comfort food, we came across this delicious grilled cheese sandwich. Cooking provides stability and offers some peace in uncertain days, in other words, give me all the carbohydrates with thick melting cheese and caramelized onion, now!

INGREDIENTS
– 2 onions, sliced into thin rings
– 6 tbsp butter
– 4 thick slices of sturdy white bread
– 120 g Comté or Gruyère, sliced
– Salt and pepper

There, that feels good. Do you remember how we discussed that caramelizing onions for a long time is really a super good idea? Especially when you then put them in such an incredibly delicious French Melt; a sandwich with sweet soft brown caramelized onions where that divine Comté or Gruyère just drips out, hmmmm…

This is how you make the French Melt

  1. Heat 3 tablespoons of butter in a large non-stick frying pan or a cast-iron skillet over medium heat.
  2. Add the onions when the butter has melted, sprinkle with salt and pepper, and cook for about 45 minutes until dark golden brown, stirring regularly with a (wooden) spatula.
  3. If they seem to be burning, stir in 1 tablespoon of water occasionally.
  4. Put the onions in a bowl and wipe the pan with some kitchen paper.
  5. Put the pan back on the heat and melt another tablespoon of butter in it.
  6. Place the slices of bread in the pan and gently move them around (without flipping) until they are lightly golden brown after about 2 minutes.
  7. Remove the slices of bread from the pan and place them with the cooked side facing up on a cutting board.
  8. Spread half of the cheese over 2 cooked sides, then all the onion rings, and then the rest of the cheese.
  9. Now place the 2 other slices with the cooked side on the cheese/onion slices and press down a bit. You now have 2 sandwiches with the outer sides uncooked.
  10. Melt another tablespoon of butter in the pan and place the sandwiches in it.
  11. Cook them for about 3 minutes on one side while gently moving the pan a bit to distribute the butter.
  12. Add the last tablespoon of butter, flip the sandwiches over, and repeat.
  13. Serve immediately.

Source: Serious Eats