Grilled cheeses are a basic consolation meals, and right here at ConsumingWellwe all know that there’s some ways you possibly can spice them up. From basic grilled cheese with veggies like tomato and cabbage to heat and comforting high-protein melts, these sandwiches are a scrumptious lunch or dinner that’s excellent for colder climate. Try our Grilled Cheese with Spinach & Tomato for a fast and nutritious chew, or our Rotisserie Chicken Salad Melt for a dish that packs on the protein.
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Grilled Cheese with Spinach & Tomato
Photographer: Jen Causey, Food Stylist: Julian Hensarling, Prop Stylist: Claire Spollen.
This grilled cheese with spinach and tomato is a flavorful twist on the basic sandwich, cooked to golden perfection on the stovetop. Wilted spinach is infused with loads of garlic. Juicy tomato slices add shade and a recent chew to the melty mozzarella filling. This sandwich makes for a straightforward lunch or dinner and pairs nicely with tomato soup or a easy inexperienced salad.
Broccoli Melts
Photographer: Jen Causey, Food Stylist: Emily Nabors Hall, Prop Stylist: Julia Bayless
These broccoli-cheese melts mix crisp-tender broccoli with a layer of melted cheese inside two crispy items of bread for a sandwich that’s wealthy and creamy. These 20-minute cheese melts are the last word consolation meals—satisfying and filled with that tacky goodness everybody loves.
Cabbage Grilled Cheese
Photographer: Morgan Hunt Glaze, Prop Stylist: Lydia Pursell, Food Stylist: Emily Nabors Hall
This warming cabbage grilled cheese has all of it: melty cheese, tender cabbage and crispy sweet-tart apple slices. This sandwich is a straightforward winner for lunch or served with a inexperienced salad for dinner. A light-weight layer of mayonnaise on the skin of the bread is an effective way to toast a grilled cheese to golden brown with out having to depend on butter. We love tender, candy Savoy cabbage, however this recipe would work with purple or inexperienced cabbage as nicely.
Rotisserie Chicken Salad Melt
Photographer Victor Protasio, Food Stylist Julian Hensarling, Prop Stylist Tucker Vines
This basic rooster salad soften includes a dressing lightened up with yogurt and shredded rotisserie rooster for final comfort. We prepare dinner the sandwiches two at a time on medium-low warmth to crisp up the bread and soften the cheese with out having to fret about burning.
Cauliflower Spanakopita Melt
Photographer: Jen Causey, Food Stylist: Emily Nabors Hall, Prop Stylist: Lindsey Lower
This cauliflower spanakopita soften is a dream come true! It blends the flavors of the Greek spinach pie, spanakopita, into the hand-held consolation and comfort of a grilled cheese sandwich. Chopped roasted cauliflower brings a wholesome, veggie-packed twist.
Sweet Potato Grilled Cheese
Photographer: Jen Causey, Food Stylist: Julian Hensarling, Prop Stylist: Josh Hoggle
The crispy golden exterior of this candy potato grilled cheese is due to mayonnaise, which spreads simply and browns extra evenly than butter or oil. Roasted purple onions and candy potato rounds make up the filling, however you possibly can roast the onion individually and use leftover roasted candy potato in case you have that available.
5-Ingredient Brie and Blackberry Jam Grilled Cheese
Photography: Rachel Marek, Food stylist: Lauren McAnelly, Prop stylist: Gabriel Greco
This sandwich pairs creamy Brie cheese with a sweet-and-savory blackberry jam unfold for the proper ultra-quick lunch or dinner choice. You can simply double the recipe utilizing a medium pan, or use a sandwich press in case you have one available.
French Onion Grilled Cheese
One of our favourite consolation meals—French onion soup—meets crowd-pleasing grilled cheese in a sandwich with the flavors of each dishes, minus loads of the normal sodium and saturated fats. Caramelized onions are the star right here: their pungent, concentrated taste signifies that only a contact of Gruyere is greater than sufficient to make this sandwich sing. The different key? Shaving the cheese with a microplane, which permits the cheese to distribute its melty goodness evenly, and makes only a little bit of cheese really feel like lots.
Collards & Portobello Grilled Cheese
Meaty portobello mushrooms and sautéed collards flip this simple grilled cheese recipe right into a wholesome meal. If you do not have Dijonnaise available, make your personal by stirring 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard into 3 tablespoons mayonnaise.
Open-Face Cauliflower-Cheddar Melts
Brie Goldman
Melty Cheddar cheese is the proper complement to cauliflower on this satisfying open-face sandwich constructed on whole-grain nation bread. Serve it with a spinach salad for a fantastic autumn lunch.
Mushroom & Spinach Melts
These mushroom-and-spinach melts test all of the bins: they’re tacky, filled with veggies and simple to make—what’s to not love? Balsamic vinegar provides a beautiful sharpness to chop by means of the cheese, and pairs nicely with the sautéed greens.
