Easy Recipe: Perfect Croque Madame and Monsieur

Croque Madame and Monsieur. A croque monsieur (French pronunciation: [kʁɔk məsjø]) is a hot sandwich made with ham and cheese. The dish originated in French cafés and bars as a quick snack. Croque monsieur is usually made with a French toast - the egg goes in the bread instead of on top.

Essentially, the same sandwich but with a fried egg, sunny side up, on top. The famous French croque monsieur and Croque madame story. When we lived in Los Angeles, my husband and I used to frequent this bustling little French bakery on the West side. You can cook Croque Madame and Monsieur using 7 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Croque Madame and Monsieur

1. Prepare 8 of x slices of granary bread cut into discs.
2. Prepare 4 of x thin slices of ham.
3. You need 2 of x tbsp cold bechamel sauce.
4. It's 2 of x tsp dijon mustard.
5. You need 150 g of grated Gruyere cheese.
6. It's 2 of x quail eggs.
7. It's 50 g of melted butter.

It's called La Dijonaise and they make a croque madame (and monsieur!) that's so good it will make your croissant-loving head spin. Toasting Bread For my bread loaf recipe, watch: Whole Wheat Pain de Mie Recipe Video. *Croque monsieur can be made without sauce. Baked ham and cheese with velvety béchamel oozing out all over the place: mind-altering. Croque-monsieur is, very simply, a grilled ham and cheese; the easy addition of a fried egg on top transforms it into a croque-madame.

Croque Madame and Monsieur instructions

1. Brush the bread discs with melted butter and bake at 180c for around 10 minutes or until toasted but not all the way crispy. Smear mustard onto 4 of the discs, then spread béchamel.
2. Sit ham onto the béchamel and then sprinkle the cheese, spread dijon on the other 4 toast rounds and top those with a more generous amount of béchamel, sit those sauce side up on top of the 4 already covered toasts.
3. Top all with remaining cheese and bake at 180c until crispy about 10/15 minutes, while baking pan fry 2 quail eggs..
4. Finish the croque madame by sitting a fried egg onto, of course the traditional dish is made with a regular sized sandwich with a regular hens egg, so feel free to size up but I just love the way these look made nibble sized, either way they are seriously lush me babbers. Please check out the entire video from my Youtube channel here's the link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDO6POAnMb4.

There are many different versions of this classic French fast food, including smothering the final product with cheesy mornay sauce. Here I've opted for the plain version. Croque Monsieur (Croque Madame) with Poached Eggs. Note: When topped with a poached egg, croque monsieur becomes croque madame. The croque monsieur, the classic French ham and cheese sandwich covered in cheesy bechamel, becomes a madame when a fried egg is placed on top of it.