For the last week or so, while eating some delicious healthy homemade packed lunch or another, this thought has consistently crossed my mind… “This meal of roasted vegetables (or green salad or homemade soup) are so healthy and delicious …but I really just wish that I was eating french fries, or something with cheese sauce or maybe chicken wings.”
Yes ladies and gentlemen, winter has arrived. I am tired and overworked and cold. I want comfort food. Maybe you do too? If so, make yourself a batch of croque monsieur biscuits. A croque monsieur is a grilled ham and cheese sandwich with bechamel sauce and mustard. Usually, they are made with bread, but these ones are made with buttermilk biscuit dough. They are delicious for breakfast, with a small green salad for lunch or eaten as a midnight snack. My husband is the one who suggested that I should make croque monsieur biscuits. He is so smart.
While we are on the topic of melted cheese sandwiches and their marvelous variations, I would like to point everyone toward this amazing recipe for kim chee grilled cheese from the newish and excellent blog Two Red Bowls. I have been eating this a lot, and I really think that everyone else should too. It is very good, and warming, with a glass of whiskey.
CROQUE MONSIEUR BISCUITS (GLUTEN-FREE OR NOT)
Bechamel
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 1 and 1/2 tablespoon all-purpose flour (I used Jeanne’s all-purpose gluten-free mix)
- 1 cups milk
- 1/2 teaspoon salt (you can skip this if you are using salted butter)
- 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- A tiny pinch nutmeg
- 1/2 cup Gruyère, grated
Heat the milk in a small saucepan over low heat (or in a microwave if you have one). In another small saucepan with a heavy bottom, heat the butter over low flame. Add the flour and stir with a wooden spoon for 1 or 2 minutes. Gradually add the hot milk, whisking constantly to prevent lumps. Continue whisking and cooking until the sauce thickens. I usually lose patience and turn up the flame to medium at some point. When the sauce is thickened remove it from the heat and season it with salt, pepper and nutmeg. Add the cheese and stir until it is melted. Set the sauce aside while you prepare the biscuits.
Biscuit Dough
You can use this traditional buttermilk biscuit recipe or this gluten-free lard and buttermilk biscuit recipe. Whichever kind of biscuits you are making roll the dough out to a thickness of 1/2 inch.
Cut the biscuit dough into equally sized squares or rectangles, using a sharp knife. Usually, you would cut them into 16 squares, but this is a photo of a half batch, so it is only cut into 8 pieces.
Fill the biscuits before baking them.
Filling and Baking
- 2 or 3 tablespoons Dijon mustard (if you are making gluten-free biscuits, check the label to be sure that the mustard does not contain wheat. Many do!)
- about 4 oz thick sliced Virginia ham
- about 6 oz grated Gruyère
- Slather half of the biscuits with Dijon mustard.
- Cut the Virginia ham into long strips no wider than your biscuits. Rumple a strip of ham on top of each of the mustard smeared biscuits.
- Top the ham with a generous pinch of Gruyère cheese.
- Preheat the oven to 425 degrees.
- Place a naked biscuit on top of each filled one, to make 8 little sandwiches. Again, this was a half batch so, I only made 4 sandwiches.
- Place the biscuits in the heated oven and bake for 13-15 minutes. The biscuits should be cooked, but not golden brown. Remove the biscuits from the oven and turn the heat up to broil.
- Spoon 2 tablespoons of bechamel over each biscuit. If you have leftover Gruyère you can sprinkle it on top. Put the biscuits under the broiler for 3 to 5 minutes or until the sauce is golden and bubbly.
- Remove the biscuits from the oven and let them cool for at least a minute or two before serving warm.
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Fabulous! I love two red bowls too! Wish I could get the authentic ingredients to make the kimchi…. But for now, I’ll be making these croques!
Let me know how you like them! Thanks for dropping by.
Erin
Oh my god I need this now!
Erin, thank you SO much for linking to me!!! I’m so flattered, and so happy someone else shares my grilled cheese quirks 🙂 (Did you see that there was an article in Food 52 about kimchi grilled cheese today, too? We’re not alone!) More importantly, however, these croque monsieur biscuits are PURE genius. I love ham & cheese any time in any form, but tucked into a flaky buttery biscuit? Oh my lord. Love the pats of butter visible in the dough in your shots — I just know those biscuits were perfection! Thanks so much for posting this!
i love croque monsieurs! and putting them in a biscuit is genius!
I know! I will pass the compliment along to my husband, who had the genius idea!
Erin