A low carb lunch, Croque Monsieur.

[Docb]

Anybody else do Croque Monsieur?

If you don't know what it is, it is a sandwich of ham and cheese fried in butter. Just use your favourite bread, I use a low GI bread from Booths - 9g carb a slice - and maybe add some olive oil to the butter or chop up a few sage leaves and sprinkle over the filling. Any ham, any cheese. Camembert is good if you like gooey.

Add a salad and you have a low carb lunch, just like I have done. Would post a picture but can't work out how and anyway I've eaten it.

 

[grovesy]

I am glad you explained what it is as I have never heard of it. I vaguely remember as a child having fried cheese sandwiches, though not fondly despite being a cheese lover.
Why would you use butter and olive oil? I would have thought one or the other would have been enough.

 

[Docb]

Butter tends to overheat and burn if you fry with it. Add some oil and the temperature comes down and it does not. It's then a matter of taste whether you use olive oil or some other vegetable oil.

 

[grovesy]

I see .

 

[Toucan]

Thanks for this. It revives memories of long ago holidays in France in pre-Diabetes days. I shall make one.
Also seem to remember a Croque Madame which was the same thing with an poached egg on the top - might try that as well.

 

[trophywench]

You only need to add a teeny bit of oil, but adjusted to butter quantity. A 'knob' of butter = a teaspoonful of oil.