Grilled Roast Beef and Melted Pepper Jack Cheese Sandwich

Submitted by GREG IN SAN DIEGO

"I modeled this sandwich after one I enjoyed at a little hole-in-the-wall coffee shop in Cardiff by the Sea, in Southern California. It was wonderful and so is this!"

 

• Ready In: 20mins
• Ingredients: 7
• Serves: 2

ingredients

• 4 slices thick sourdough bread
• 1⁄3 lb thinly sliced roast beef (I use rare beef purchased at the deli.)
• 4 slices monterey jack with jalapeno pepper cheese, generous slices
• 1 teaspoon canned diced green chilis
• mayonnaise
• melted butter
• salt

directions

1. Lay sliced bread on bread board.
2. Paint tops of bread slices generously with melted butter.
3. Flip bread slices over.
4. Spread mayonnaise generously on each slice of bread.
5. Assemble two sliced bread pieces with roast beef, cheese and 1/2 teaspoon diced green chilies.
6. Sprinkle with salt. Top sandwiches with other two slices of bread, mayo side down, butter side up.
7. Grill sandwiches on medium high heat griddle, with lots of butter on the grill beneath, until bottoms of sandwiches are golden brown and cheese begins melting.
8. Carefully flip sandwiches over using two utensils and grill again until bottom bread is also golden brown and cheese is melted.
9. Remove two sandwiches from griddle, slice each in half and arrange on two plates. Garnish plates.
10. Serve with dill pickles, yellow mustard, prepared horseradish and lots of napkins.
11. French fries, onion rings and cole slaw make wonderful additions to this meal.

Reviews

[bmcnichol]

I made these for my husband and son as I don't like jalapeno pepper cheese. My family thought this was just OK. I followed the recipe as written other then I didn't use the butter or add salt. For some reason they like jalapeno pepper cheese but they didn't care for it melted on this sandwich.

 

[faa849]

I've made these sandwiches a couple of times this year during football season and everyone loved them!

 

[Lindsay]

made this a few weeks ago. great sammie! Only change - i used horsey sauce packets from arby's in place of straight mayo to get rid of them. YUM!

 

[Charmie777]

Delicious! I also added some horseradish sauce to give it a kick!

 

[Chef PotPie]

OH YUM! I don't usually even look at recipes for sandwiches, but as my adoptee for PAC Spring '07, I looked through all of Greg's recipes. This was phenomenal! I used to get a sandwich like this many years ago when I lived in Southern California, but it was on a bun, not toasted. Toasting brings this to another level. I used Seattle Sourdough slices, deli roast beef on the rare side, bought an 8-ounce block of pepperjack cheese and sliced most of it up, and rather than sprinkle on diced canned green chilis I used the canned whole ones. Everyone loved these sandwiches! Daughter, (very picky!) said she would rather have the diced chilis, and next time we all would spread a horseradish sauce thinly on the bread with the mayo, it really brought out the flavor of everything. Wonderful recipe, Greg! Thanks for sharing it.