Grilled Cheese with Gouda, Roasted Mushrooms and Onions
This Grilled Cheese with Gouda, Roasted Mushrooms and Onions recipe takes grilled cheese sandwiches to a new level of goodness.
A great classic grilled cheese sandwich is hard to beat. A grilled cheese sandwich jacked up with Gouda cheese and roasted mushrooms and onions? Well, that’s a grilled cheese sandwich that is even harder to beat.
I could go on and waste your time rambling on about how so wonderfully scrumptious this Grilled Cheese with Gouda, Roasted Mushrooms and Onions sandwich was that it didn’t even make it to the table. No joking. But I’d rather just tell you to get you some bread, gouda, mushrooms and onions, and get to it.
It’s really that good. Really.
I promise you’ll be pleased with this grilled cheese.
A few helpful tips for making this fabulous Grilled Cheese with Gouda, Roasted Mushrooms and Onions sandwich:
- Roasting vegetables is such an easy step that adds so much flavor to vegetables and makes this sandwich so wonderfully tasty. You’ll find easy instructions for roasting in this recipe for one of my favorite (and super light too) soups: White Bean and Roasted Mushrooms Soup.
- The mushrooms and onions can be roasted ahead of time and stored, covered in a refrigerator until ready to assemble sandwich. If desired, rewarm roasted mushroom and onions up a bit in a microwave for a few seconds (maybe 20 seconds or so) or toss in a skillet on the stovetop to warm.
- Choose your favorite mushrooms to use. Baby Bella mushrooms are lovely but any mushrooms you can find (especially the ones on sale) will work just fine.
- Even though any sweet or yellow onion will work for this recipes, if you can find a sweet Vidalia onion to use for this sandwich, get it!
- Although I think Gouda is just perfect for this grilled cheese, a Gruyere, Jarlsberg or your favorite softer cheese — even a brie (oh my!) would be fantastic. This article from Food & Wine describing different kinds of cheese may help understand the differences between cheese and assist in choosing some good options for the best grilled cheese.
Grilled Cheese with Gouda, Roasted Mushrooms and Onions Recipe
Grilled Cheese with Gouda, Roasted Mushrooms and Onions
This grilled cheese will please even the pickiest sandwich eater.
Ingredients
- 8 ounces mushrooms, sliced
- 1 medium onion, sliced (the sweeter the better)
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- salt and pepper
- 4 tablespoons butter
- 4 slices bread of choice
- 1 cup gouda, shredded
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400-degrees F.
- On a baking sheet toss sliced mushrooms and onion in olive oil. Sprinkle with a few pinches of salt and pepper. Bake in oven for about 20 minutes, or until roasted to preference.
- In a skillet stove top, melt 4 tablespoons butter over medium heat.
- While butter is melting, assemble sandwiches. On one slice of bread, layer shredded gouda, the roasted mushrooms and onions, then more gouda. (Layering this way ensures that the melty cheese will hold the sandwich together.) Salt and pepper to taste. Top with the other slice of bread. Lightly press together.
- In the melted butter place one sandwich down for one second, then gently flip it over to the other side. Repeat with other sandwich. Cook for about 2 minutes, until lightly browned, then gently flip sandwich on other side, and cook for an additional 2-3 minutes, or until cheese is melted and sandwich is browned to preference.
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Great this post made me very hungry
matched with the rainy season in Indonesia
I made the and OMG, the best grilled cheese ever!! I will make them again and again…thanks for the recipe. And looking at the other posts, I may have to kick them up a little!!
Yay! So happy to hear you enjoyed it, Deb.
Yes and yes! Totally gonna make this asap! So simple and looks so delicious!
I hope you enjoy it, Janette!
Wow this was really great! Goodbye regular grilled cheese.
Wow.. Yummy i will try it thanks :3
Hi Amy, I’m making this, as I type I’m caramelizing the onions and mushrooms. May I ask a perhaps dumb question? Why put the sandwich on the buttered pan for one second then flip? Is there a reason for this?
I just like the one side to soak up a bit of the butter then flip so the other side can do the same. It really isn’t a critical step, just the way I like to do it.
Well, I can’t mess with perfection 🙂
I used Gruyere instead of Gouda and it was divine. Thanks so much for the wonderful recipe! 🙂
Fran
I was really skeptical about trying this because I only recently tried Gouda and mushrooms are kind of a mood thing. But it’s 4am, I’m hungry and I didn’t want to be up cooking a meal at this hour. So I threw the mushrooms in the skillet with some garlic butter and onions, got my sprouted bread and Gouda ready, crossed my fingers and put it all together.. Took a deep breath and a big bite… IT WAS A-M-A-Z-I-N-G! I didn’t expect it to taste so good. It was so rich and flavorful. I’m an extremely picky eater but right now I’m on a really restricted diet so I have to try new things. I definitely don’t regret trying this! One of my new favorites ❤ Thanks for sharing.
I’m so happy you enjoyed it, Noah. I can’t wait to try it with sprouted bread!
Looks great…!!! 😀
Yummy! Absolutely delightful recipe with great repeat value!
Love this recipe. Have eaten it a number of times and I am putting a link to this on my blog for favourite recipes. Hope thats OK with you.
This recipe was a success! It will be my standard from here on out!
Besides sourdough, what types of bread would you recommend
Love this recipe… delicious!!
I am so excited to try this! Yum – thank you for sharing.
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OMG what a big mess. It’s hard to turn the sandwich without all the goodies falling out. I cut back on the amount of butter in the pan and it turned out fine. The sandwich is very rich tasting.
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Hi thank you very much for the details, but this recipe is recommended for athletes? even at night?
flipping the sandwiches and making sure the filling doesn’t fill out was hard. but it tasted very good. all of my colleagues enjoyed the dish at the office party of our Limo company in Chicago