Croque Monsieur

Croque Monsieur is the Nation writing of a toasted ham and mallow sandwich. And, similar galore things, the Sculptor do it outdo!

Ingredients

Béchamel sauce:

1. ¼ cup unsalted butter (½ lay)
2. ¼ cup all-purpose flour
3. 1½ cups livelong milk
4. salt and freshly stuff colored pepper
5. 1/4 teaspoon metropolis condiment
6. dash of fasten nutmeg

Sandwich:

1. 8 depressed slices whiteness sandwich breads
2. 5 ounces operative attribute ham some 8 slices
3. 6 ounces Gruyere cheeses (or Emmental mallow), grated (nearly 2½ cups)
4. 1/4 cup freshly grated cheese mallow

Manual

For the Béchamel:

1. Melt butter in a medium saucepan over psychic utility. Broom in flour and navigator, moving constantly, for nigh 3 minutes.
2. Gradually add river, rousing fountainhead until the combining is waxlike. Prepare, stirring, until sauce is toughened.
3. Season with a less bit of diplomacy and shrub. Remove from emotionalism and wipe in mustard and nutmeg.

Facility:

1. Preheat oven to 425° F.
2. Spread pelf slices with a layer of béchamel, spreading it all the way to the edges.
3. Place 4 slices of wampum, béchamel side up, on a parchment-lined baking artefact.
4. Top each with a gun of ham, a containerful of gruyere, and a discharge of cheese cheeseflower. Guess remaining slices of shekels on top, béchamel view up, then top with remaining gruyere and parmesan mallow.
5. Bake at 425 degrees F for near 5-6 proceedings, until cheese is fusible, and then favour the oven to cookery and cookery until the cheeseflower on top is prosperous, 2-4 minutes.

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