How To Make Fig and Bacon Grilled Cheese
Grab a bite of this loaded grilled cheese with layers of pureed fig, provolone, bacon, and bleu cheese sandwiched in buttered bread.
Serves:
Ingredients
- 8slicesSara Lee® Artesano™ Bread
- 8provolone cheese,sliced
- 2ozbleu cheese
- ¼cupdried figs
- ¼cupwater
- 1tbspsugar,optional
- 8slicedthick cut bacon,cooked
- 4tbspbutter,unsalted
Instructions
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Add the figs to the water and either let sit overnight or microwave for 2 to 3 minutes.
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Remove the figs and add them to a small food processor and add water as needed to make a spreadable puree. Add sugar if desired.
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Spread the butter on one side of each of the 8 slices of Sara Lee® Artesano™ Bread. Butter side down on the cutting board, add fig puree to four of the slices.
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Add the bleu cheese to the remaining four slices. Add a slice of provolone to each of the slices.
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Top four slices with bacon.
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Close the sandwiches, a bacon-covered piece of Sara Lee® Artesano™ Bread with a non-bacon covered piece.
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In a cast-iron pan or griddle on medium-high, add the sandwiches and cook for 3 to 5 minutes on each side.
Nutrition
- Calories: 788.64kcal
- Fat: 56.19g
- Saturated Fat: 27.77g
- Trans Fat: 0.72g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 18.81g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 5.72g
- Carbohydrates: 39.63g
- Fiber: 3.14g
- Sugar: 11.66g
- Protein: 31.75g
- Cholesterol: 121.91mg
- Sodium: 1263.33mg
- Calcium: 605.76mg
- Potassium: 408.62mg
- Iron: 2.99mg
- Vitamin A: 283.75µg
- Vitamin C: 0.60mg
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