Super-Stuffed Monte-Cristo Sandwiches

The grand daddy of all sandwiches... slices of bread stacked with smoked bacon, turkey, ham, havarti cheese; dipped in batter and griddled.

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Ingredients:

• 8 slices center cut or apple wood smoked bacon  
• 4 large eggs, beaten  
• Warm 1/4 cup half-and-half  
• 1/4 teaspoon grated nutmeg or ground -- eyeball it  
• 1/2 teaspoon coarse ground black pepper -- eyeball it  
• 2 tablespoons butter  
• 8 thick cut sliced whole-grain soft bread, white, or challah  
• 1/2 cup brown mustard  
• 1/2 cup whole berry cranberry sauce  
• 1/2 pound sliced havarti cheese  
• 1 pound sliced ham  
• 1 pound sliced turkey breast  
• 1 1/2 cups medium to dark amber maple syrup

Method

Heat a griddle pan or large skillet over medium high heat. Cook bacon and remove to paper towels to drain, 5 minutes. Drain off fat. Reheat griddle over medium heat. Make sandwiches in 2 batches. Beat eggs with half-and-half, nutmeg and pepper. Add 1 tablespoon butter to the griddle or pan and melt. Turn 4 slices bread in batter, and then add to griddle or pan. Turn bread after it browns, 2 to 3 minutes. Top 2 bread slices with mustard, the other 2 with cranberry sauce. Add 2 slices of cheese and bacon on the cranberry covered bread. Add ham, then turkey to the mustard covered bread. Use a spatula to assemble 2 sandwiches and turn and press gently to set sandwiches in place. Repeat to make 2 more sandwiches. Cut sandwiches from corner to corner. Heat the syrup in microwave safe container for 30 seconds. Drizzle syrup over sandwiches at the table

Notes:

Number of servings: 4

Submitted By: love4forrest
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