Apple Melt with Comté and Boursin
About this Recipe
By: Rachel
Fall is the time to enjoy fresh, crisp apples. Apples and cheese are a classic pairing, showcasing beautiful sweet-and-savory interplay. That is one of the reasons why I love this Apple Melt with Comté and Boursin. Creamy Boursin and nutty Comté are perfectly delicious alongside sweet apples and earthy cranberry-walnut bread. If you haven’t experimented with apple grilled cheese sandwiches, now is the time to start!
Celebrating Fall Flavors with Apples and Cheese
Apples and cheese are a delicious combination, and I love to get creative when pairing the two together. This Apple Tarte Tatin with Goat Cheese and Honey Ice Cream is one of my favorite ways to combine apples and cheese. This easy, delicious apple grilled cheese sandwich is another!
An Apple Grilled Cheese Sandwich For the Jewish New Year
The waning of summer and the advent of autumn brings shorter days and cooler weather. If you are lucky enough to live in a place with seasons and deciduous trees, it also brings a gorgeous palette of reds, oranges, and yellows all around you.
The advent of fall also means that Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year, is right around the corner. The symbolic foods of the holiday are some of my favorites. Round challahs, flavored with honey and often studded with raisins, symbolize the continuity of the year. Crisp apples dipped in honey help us start the year off with sweetness. Pomegranates remind us that our lives should be filled with good deeds, numerous like the seeds of the pomegranate.
The list goes on, and it is fun to think of ways to include symbolic foods in new and creative dishes for the holiday table. This hearty fall salad, featuring pomegranate, often finds a place on my holiday table. And of course, this Apples and Honey Cocktail is the perfect holiday drink.
How To Serve An Apple Grilled Cheese
This simple-yet-craveable sandwich makes for a satisfying holiday lunch, or the perfect appetizer for a fall dinner (simply make the sandwich as directed, and use a small cookie cutter to cut out bite-sized pieces).
I love the combination of tart apples with savory cheese. If you can find it, cranberry walnut bread is the perfect choice. The walnuts make for a substantial, earthy bite, and the cranberries add just a note of sweetness.
Beverage Pairing
By: Olivia
This delicious Granny Smith apple, Boursin, and Comté trio will pair beautifully with several wines. You could open a Sauvignon Blanc with its bright acidity to cut through the cheeses’ richness and enhance the apples’ tartness, To complement the creaminess of the cheeses, you could explore richer white wines like an unoaked Chardonnay, Chenin Blanc, or Gewürztraminer. Each of these options will bring out more creaminess while adding some contrast to the tart qualities of the dish.
Apple Melt with Comté and Boursin
Ingredients
- 2 slices cranberry-walnut bread
- 2 ounces (55g) Boursin cheese
- 2 ounces (55g) Comté cheese sliced
- 1 thinly-sliced Granny Smith apple
- Mayonnaise for pan-frying
Step by Step Instructions
Step 1
- Find a skillet with a tight-fitting lid that will comfortably hold your sandwich.Lay out your slices of bread. Spread one slice with mayonnaise, and place it spread-side down in a skillet. Spread Boursin cheese over the slice of bread in the skillet.. Add a layer of Comté, a layer of apple, and another layer of Comté.
Step 2
- Now spread Boursin on the remaining slice, and place it cheese-side down to create the top of the sandwich. Spread the outside of the top slice with mayonnaise.
Step 3
- Cover the skillet, and heat the sandwich over medium-low heat. Your goal is to melt the cheese at the same rate as you toast the bread; if the heat is too high, you will wind up with burnt bread and cold, un-melted cheese.
Step 4
- When the cheese on the bottom half of the sandwich is beginning to melt and the bread is golden brown, flip the sandwich and finish cooking on the other side. Serve immediately.
