Amazing grilled cheese that’s packed with flavor favorites, pepper bacon, blue cheese crumbles, red onion and white cheddar. It’s all spiced with fresh clacked peppercorns for an additional pop.
BACON GRILLED CHEESE
I can’t let this month go by without sharing some wonderful grilled cheese ideas. After all, it’s National Grilled Cheese Month! It’s the only month of the year, where I abide by the “national month/day of…” rules. I love, love, love grilled cheeses and share some new idea with out each April. This year, I have two or three recipes up my sleeve and we will start with hub’s favorite.
I actually made a giant list of grilled cheese possibilities and let hubs choose some he wanted to try, and then I chose some I liked. Then I had to narrow it down quite a bit because if I made them all, the whole month would be filled with nothing but grilled cheese recipes. And I’m sure you want to see a little more from me that just a bunch of grilled cheeses.
So you can probably guess why this sandwich caught my husband’s eye, and very quickly too. It’s loaded with crispy bacon, red onions, blue cheese crumbles and sharp white cheddar cheese. It’s like a man’s dream grilled cheese. Not to mention that bacon and grilled cheese itself is “peppered” with fresh-cracked peppercorns.
After this grilled cheese was devoured, I asked him how it compared to Bourbon Bacon, Mushroom & Onion Grilled Cheese and Steak & Onion Grilled Cheese, since those two have been huge hits with him in the past. To tell you the truth, he couldn’t choose one to be on top.
All three have something that makes them special and a total “man bait.” (Although, he did try to get me to make all three at the same time, so he could line them up and see which one wins. May be some day, when we are starving for lot’s of grilled cheese sandwiches, I’ll do that.)
Some More Tasty Grilled Cheese Recipes:
Jalapeno Popper Grilled Cheese
Gruyere and Caramelized Onion Grilled Cheese
Dijon Havarti & Pear Grilled Cheese
Italian Garlic Bread Grilled Cheese
Tomato Bacon Crab Grilled Cheese
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Pepper Bacon and Blue Grilled Cheese
Ingredients
- 2 slices your favorite bread I used Italian loaf
- Fresh cracked peppercorns
- 4-6 slices pepper bacon
- 1/4 cup red onion sliced
- 3-4 oz sharp white cheddar sliced (you can slice a block of cheese)
- 2 Tbsp blue cheese crumbles
Instructions
- For bacon:
- Preheat the oven to 400 and line a large rimmed baking sheet with aluminum foil, covering it entirely and up the sides. (Optional: Place a wire rack in the baking sheet and lightly spray it with cooking spray. But you can also cook bacon right in the baking sheet, without the rack.) Lay out bacon strips on top of aluminum foil (or the wire rack), season generously with fresh cracked peppercorns, and cook for 15-25 minutes. (Time will depend on the thickness of the bacon. The thicker the bacon slices, the longer it will take.) Keep an eye on it.
- (You can cook bacon ahead of time and store it covered in the refrigerator.)
- About half way through bacon cooking, you can throw in onion slices right on top of bacon, to cook them. (Or you can choose to saute the onions separately, in the pan, on stove-top.)
- Take out the baking pan with bacon once it's done and lay bacon slices on a paper towel.
- Heat up a medium cooking pan, over medium heat, on stove-top.
- Lightly grease one side of each bread slice with your choice or either butter, margarine, olive oil, or cooking spray. Season each greased side of bread with fresh-cracked peppercorn and lay both slices greased-side down in the cooking pan.
- Divide white cheddar cheese between the two slices of bread, covering it evenly.
- Add blue cheese crumbles, onions and bacon, all on one slice. Cover it with the other slice once cheese starts to melt. (That way your cheese slices won't fly all over the pan.)
- Cook on both sides until all the cheese is melted.
Nutrition
Taylor says
My husband has wanted me to make this 100 times the last month. Soooo I’d say it’s a winner.
Mike says
Probably one of the best grilled cheese sandwiches I’ve ever had!!! Super rich and decadent!
LyubaB says
Thanks, Mike! I am glad you liked it! 🙂