Grilled Cheese Sandwich Recipe, Vegan or Vegetarian

Quick Easy Kid Friendly Recipe, Perfect for Lunch with Soup or Salad

As with our popular burrito recipe, we foolishly thought that nobody needed a recipe for grilled cheese sandwiches, which we learned to make before the dawn of time.

But not everybody's Mom fed them grilled cheese sandwiches. Some Moms tried to give their kids healthy food. Some Moms lost the recipe. Some were from countries that never heard of grilled cheese.

So generations of kids have grown up not knowing how to make grilled cheese sandwiches. Very Sad! Weep no more - we decided to share the recipe.

Total prep & cook time: 15 min

4 Servings

Nutrition Data Per serving, 130g: 369 calories, calories from fat 128, 14g fat, 2 g saturated fat, 49 g carbohydrate, 798 mg sodium, 6 g dietary fiber, 14g protein, 4 g sugars 20% DV Vit A, 4% DV Vit C, 43% DV Calcium, 24% DV Iron; very low in Cholesterol; high in sodium; good source of Riboflavin, Calcium & Selenium. Estimated glycemic load: 26

Ingredients:

• 8 slices firm whole grain bread
• 8 cheese or un-cheese slices
• 1 - 2 Tbsp veggie spread or butter

Directions:

1. Heat a large griddle or frying pan on medium to medium-low
2. Lay out 8 slices of bread on your work surface
3. Spread each piece very thinly with soft veggie spread or butter
4. Place 4 bread slices spread side down on the pan
5. Arrange 2 cheese slices overlapping each other on each slice of bread in the pan
6. Cover each slice of bread and cheese with another slice of bread, spread side up
7. Cook for 5 minutes or so on each side, until the sandwiches are nicely browned and the cheese melted
8. Caution: Don't go off and leave your sandwiches cooking while you check your email. They're likely to burn

Cooking Tips:

This is a kid-friendly sandwich recipe -kids from 2 to 102 love grilled cheese sandwiches! Getting them to eat something vegetablish with the sandwich is a challenge. Cream of tomato & chickpea soup is perfect because they can dip their sandwich in it!

This seems like a simple sandwich recipe, but making a great grilled cheese sandwich is a high art which can only be mastered with regular practice.

Tricks for making perfect grilled cheese sandwiches: Good firm whole grain bread, good cheese (vegans get a cheese exemption), and a very thin coating of butter or veggie spread on the bread to keep your sandwiches from being TOO greasy ( 1/2 tsp per slice). Another trick is to cook the sandwiches slowly enough that the cheese gets hot and melty on the inside, and the bread becomes brown and crusty on the outside.

There are several brands of vegan cheese slices available in most big grocery stores or natural food stores. I used Mozarella Flavor veggie slices from Galaxy Nutritonal Foods. It resembles cheese, has a cheese-like taste, is lactose and casein free, and melts nicely. What more can you ask of a vegan cheese?

Our grilled cheese sandwiches were blissfully satisfying, as hot, greasy, salty foods always are. We wolfed them down between spoonfuls of Cauliflower Cannellini Bean Soup - for our health. They went together very well! A green salad would have been a good healthy partner too.

4 Sandwiches, 4 Servings: Nutrition data is based on non-dairy cheese slices and spread, and whole wheat bread.

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