A fancy BLT grilled cheese sandwiches. This is a fun twist on a traditional BLT. Griddled until golden and gooey with Fontina cheese!

I almost hit you with another mile long recipe title.

So I decided to save you about three whole minutes by swapping  out – ‘sundried tomato pesto, peppered bacon, spinach, Fontina cheese and honey roasted garlic mayo’ for the word “fancy”.

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As my final sammie for Grilled Cheese Month, the Sun-dried Tomato and Walnut Pesto has asked me to create one ooey gooey sandwich featuring, you guessed it cheese. Wellllll of course I picked my favorite cow’s milk cheese to slap in between bread and grill: Fontina.

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I wanted to take a classic sandwich [the BLT] and fancify it by using sundried tomato pesto, peppered slab bacon, baby spinach [instead of regular iceberg] and I also whipped up a killer honey roasted garlic mayo to bring it all home.  Oh yeah and I sandwiched it all between thick slices of sourdough bread, baby.

As if you need another post dedicated to showing you how to build a grilled cheese, I know. However, I cannot resist. Plus, who doesn’t love watching food being made?

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So sundried tomato pesto is pretty magical. It’s great tossed with hot pasta, on toasted slices of baguette and now… grilled cheese sammiches.

I whipped up my sundried tomato walnut pesto that I made almost two years ago. I didn’t have any fresh basil so I skipped it this time. Still  it’s pretty amazing.

And then I grated up 6 ounces of Fontina cheese. The more the merrier, right?

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The mayo. Ohhhh this mayo. Honey roasted garlic is pretty simple and pretty flipping amazing. I first saw it on Amy Thielen’s show Heartland Table on Food Network and I pretty much have been obsessing about it ever since.

Basically you place two heads of garlic [top third of the garlic head lobbed off] into an oven safe dish, drizzle them with about a tablespoon of honey each, cover with foil and roast in your preheated 375° oven for about 45 minutes. Remove the garlic from the oven, use tongs to remove the roasted heads of garlic to a clean bowl to cool. Once cool enough to handle, squeeze out those little jewels of goodness right into a bowl. Cool completely before mixing with a half cup of mayo.

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I bought a big, fat loaf of sour dough and sliced them extra thick.

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Then I slathered one side of each slice of bread with 1/2 tablespoon butter

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… topped two of the un-buttered sides of bread with 1 tablespoon or so of the sun-dried tomato pesto.

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Top with 1/4 cup Fontina.

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…A handful of baby spinach…

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… stack up the crispy, thick slices of peppered bacon… about 4 slices. Oh, per sandwich. Yes.

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Another 1/4 cup Fontina…

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Then griddle until golden and glorious. Buttered bread meet griddle, it’s a beautiful thing. I used a domed lid to cover the sandwich and help speed up the cheese melting process.

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I normally don’t recommend this, but one whole sandwich can be a shared among two people. Of course you don’t have to listen to me. I mean it’s not like I shared this with anyone. But it is one mamma-jamma of a sandwich that you may need to unhinge your jaw for it. Just sayin’.

Fancy BLT grilled cheese sandwiches are my favorite!

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Hello there, gorgeous. Carb-coma here I come.

Enjoy! And if you give these Fancy BLT Grilled Cheese Sandwiches a try, let me know! Snap a photo and tag me on twitter or instagram!

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Yield: 4 servings

Fancy BLT Grilled Cheese Sandwiches

A fancy twist on a BLT. Griddled until golden and gooey with Fontina cheese. This recipes yields 4 (half sandwich) servings

Ingredients

  • 4 slices sourdough bread
  • 2 tablespoons butter
  • 2 tablespoons sun-dried tomato pesto
  • 1 cup grated fontina cheese
  • 1 cups baby spinach, loosely packed
  • 8 slices thick-cut peppered bacon, cooked until crispy
  • 2 heads garlic
  • 1 tablespoons honey
  • 1/4 cup mayonnaise, homemade or store bought

Instructions 

FOR THE MAYO:

  • Slice off the top third of both heads of garlic. Place the garlic into an oven-safe baking dish and drizzle with honey. Cover tightly with foil and bake in a preheated 375 degree oven for about 45 minutes. Remove the garlic using tongs and let cool. Once safe to handle, squeeze the garlic cloves into a bowl and cool completely. Add a halve cup of mayo to the honey roasted garlic and mix, breaking up the roasted garlic cloves. Refrigerate until ready to use.
  • Preheat griddle to 350°.
  • Butter one side of each of the slices of sourdough bread. On the un-buttered side smear a tablespoon on each sandwich half. Top both with a little grated Fontina, spinach, peppered bacon and more grated cheese. Top with the remaining slices of sourdough, butter-side-up and griddle until golden. Cover with a domed lid or tented foil to speed up the melting process.
  • Slice in halve and serve.
Serving: 1g, Calories: 788kcal, Carbohydrates: 44g, Protein: 26g, Fat: 57g, Saturated Fat: 22g, Polyunsaturated Fat: 12g, Monounsaturated Fat: 19g, Trans Fat: 1g, Cholesterol: 107mg, Sodium: 1248mg, Potassium: 341mg, Fiber: 2g, Sugar: 7g, Vitamin A: 1265IU, Vitamin C: 7mg, Calcium: 253mg, Iron: 3mg

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