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Wine & Cheese Grilled Cheese

April 2, 2013 by bsinthekitchen

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Wine and cheese.

Makes sense right? Everybody knows it, so WHY has nobody made a Wine & Cheese Grilled Cheese before?!?!? As I’m writing this, I decided to give it a Google, and found nothing! I like to think of myself as a bit of a grilled cheese trendsetter, so this pleases me greatly! Now that I’ve let the cat out of the bag, start making these!! Seriously, the options are endless. Take your favourite wine and cheese pairing, give the wine a quick reduction, spread it, stack that cheese, grill it and DEVOUR IT! But please be refined in your devouring, this is wine and cheese remember.

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***GIVEAWAY ALERT!!***

Giveaway is closed now, but you can still enter the grilled cheese contest at St. Francis Winery for the big prize!

In related news, the lovely people at St. Francis Winery in Sonoma County, California, are hosting an awesome grilled cheese contest, and have provided a Krups Panini Maker to give away in the spirit of National Grilled Cheese Month!

We encourage you to check out the contest at their Facebook page here, just “Like” the page to see the contest details and enter. There are some seriously awesome prizes (4 day trip & VIP tour of their winery in Sonoma County, CA.). To enter the Krups Panini Maker Giveaway, just leave a comment below letting us know you want to be entered! Unfortunately this is a US only giveaway and contest. We’ve had a few Canadian only giveaways so it’s only fair! We feel your pain though, cuz that means we can’t enter the contest either 🙁

Wine & Cheese Grilled Cheese | bsinthekitchen.com #grilledcheese #redwine #bsinthekitchen

Wine & Cheese Grilled Cheese + GIVEAWAY

BS' in the Kitchen
A classic pairing of wine and cheese combined into a delicious grilled cheese sandwich.
5 from 1 vote
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Prep Time 15 mins
Cook Time 10 mins
Total Time 25 mins
Course Grilled Cheese Sandwich
Servings 1

Ingredients
  

  • 2 slices french bread
  • 1-2 tbsp butter
  • 1/2 red onion chopped
  • 1 clove garlic minced
  • Dash of rosemary
  • Dash of thyme
  • 1 tbsp flour
  • 3/4 cup red wine Cabernet Sauvignon
  • 1/2 cup shredded Gruyere cheese

Instructions
 

  • In a pan on medium heat, melt butter.
  • Add onion, mixing into butter.
  • Once the onions begin the soften, add garlic, thyme and rosemary.
  • Saute for a couple of minutes.
  • Sprinkle about a tbsp of flour, mixing in.
  • Once mixed in, add wine.
  • Reduce until alcohol has burned off and the reduction is thick enough to coat a spoon. Taste reduction to ensure alcohol has burned off.
  • Spread reduction on each slice of bread.
  • Add Gruyere.
  • Butter the outside of each slice.
  • Grill in a pan on medium heat until golden brown on each side.
  • Serve!

 

The wine reduction

The wine reduction

Right after completing the reduction, I dipped a spoon in, put a little shredded Gruyere on it and tasted it…Wonderful. Immediately pleased with how this turned out, I knew it was only going to get better as they united through the power of Grilled Cheese!

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The resulting sandwich had the delicious mild, nutty flavour of the Gruyere, melted around the savoury sauteed red onion, mixed with the rich, fruity, nutty flavours of the Cabernet Sauvignon. It all balanced so well, one bite you’d get the perfect mix, the next you might get a little more acidity from the wine, but then it would be smoothed out by a cheesy bite of Gruyere.

Now go get your favourite wine & cheese combo and make a delicious sandwich!

Bob

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Filed Under: Cheese, Dinner, grilled cheese, National Grilled Cheese Month, Sandwich Tagged With: cheese, cheese and wine, grilled cheese, gruyere, national grilled cheese month, red wine, reduction, wine

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Comments

  1. Tammy Sutherland

    April 2, 2013 at 2:03 pm

    Please enter me! I would so love to have this in my kitchen. And thank you for the recipes this month.

  2. Janel M.

    April 2, 2013 at 11:59 am

    Please enter me for the panini maker giveaway. Thanks!

  3. Kelly D

    April 2, 2013 at 11:48 am

    I would love a Panini maker, and your grilled cheese recipe looks great.
    Thanks!

  4. Denise

    April 2, 2013 at 11:33 am

    I would LOVE to win this!!! Thanks!!

  5. willgriesmer

    April 2, 2013 at 11:28 am

    I would love to win this!

  6. annette

    April 2, 2013 at 9:35 am

    really different

  7. jenny s

    April 2, 2013 at 8:08 am

    I need to win because I saw that wine and grilled cheese sammich and now I must make one! OMG-wine, cheese, and bread? Thats heaven.

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