How To Make Chicken Florentine Grilled Cheese
Try to add some more protein to your sandwich in our grilled cheese recipe! It’s filled with ooey-gooey cheese and well-seasoned chicken for a fuller meal.
Serves:
Ingredients
- 2tspolive oil
- 1chicken breastsmall, boneless skinless
- kosher salt
- black pepperfreshly-cracked
- 2 slices breadsourdough or other preferred bread
- butter
- 4slicesArla Naturally Good Fontina Cheese
- 2tbspsun-dried tomatoesroughly-chopped
- 1handfulfresh baby spinach
Instructions
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Heat oil in a medium saute pan over medium-high heat.
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While the oil is heating, season the chicken with a generous pinch of salt and black pepper.
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Add the chicken to the pan and cook for 6 to 8 minutes, turning once, until the chicken is cooked through and no longer pink on the inside.
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Remove pan from heat, then transfer the chicken to a cutting board and let it rest for 5 minutes.
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After the chicken has rested, slice it into thin strips.
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Butter one side of each piece of bread.
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Place one slice, butter-side down, on the prep surface.
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Layer it evenly with 1 to 2 cheese slices, followed by the chicken slices, sun-dried tomatoes, spinach, and the remaining slice of bread, butter-side up.
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Heat the saute pan on the stove over medium-high heat.
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Carefully transfer the sandwich to the pan and cook for 4 to 5 minutes on the first side, or until the bread is toasted and the cheese starts to melt.
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Carefully flip the sandwich to the other side, and cook for 3 to 4 minutes or until the bread is toasted.
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Remove from pan, slice the sandwich down the middle, and serve warm.
Nutrition
- Calories: 1025.00kcal
- Fat: 66.07g
- Saturated Fat: 30.39g
- Trans Fat: 0.36g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 24.37g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 7.32g
- Carbohydrates: 34.48g
- Fiber: 3.45g
- Sugar: 7.72g
- Protein: 72.31g
- Cholesterol: 251.84mg
- Sodium: 1318.86mg
- Calcium: 727.01mg
- Potassium: 811.10mg
- Iron: 4.37mg
- Vitamin A: 376.79µg
- Vitamin C: 3.11mg
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