Hello lovely people. Mr. Oliver here. The
other night, me and my wife, the lovely
Jools got in from a late night out and
she had the munchies and she asked me...
and she fancied a cheese toastie and
this toastie seemed to generate a lot of
conversation on social media, and I love
that. I love that and of course the
ultimate is always subjective, but I do
have a certain way of doing it and I do
happen to love it and it's called a
cheese toastie, with a crown! So let's do
it. I've got brown bread, some nice
Cheddar and then we've got some butter.
First up you have to take your bread,
butter it from one corner to the next
and then I'll turn it and I'll butter it
again. I'm just going to use a nice
non-stick pan. Now with the Cheddar be
fairly generous, then we're going to put
our little piece of bread on top. So
we're going to go in a pan on a medium
low heat, so three minutes each side.
Medium/medium-low. So three minutes in
what we're going to do, is we're going to
turn this toastie. Again, nothing radical
yet. You can see that it's got crispy, the
fat is dancing. It's gone nice and golden
and what I like to do at this moment in
time, is use a little bit of gravity. So
what I'm gonna do is put something flat
on top and that kind of weighs the
sandwich down. And let's have a look at the
bottom. We have a beautiful standard
crispy sandwich. Then the crown happens. From a height we're going to do long
strokes of the cheese. Into the pan, take
a little pinch of paprika. Now we can put
our beautiful crown together. Just get a
nice little spatula, get under your
sandwich. Pick it up.
Crisp bread, oozy cheese on the inside
and then this kind of little crispy,
crunchy, almost burned sort of cheese
inside. Absolutely incredible. So then the
question is, what to go with it and I can
never make my mind up. So what I do which
is filthy, is I go a little ball of
ketchup. Then bordered politically by
mango chutney.
And then brown sauce and for anyone
outside the UK, you won't have a clue
what brown sauce is, but it's a really
dark, delicious sauce that is gorgeous
and oozy. And on the inside.. yeah! Look at that! Gorgeous.
How do you do your cheese toastie? I know you
have your own way.
What's your secret? Let's get the
conversation going. Until next time take care.
