Louisville Hot Browns

Total Time: 25 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 10 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 1 small onion
• 1/4 cup unsalted butter
• 4 tablespoons all-purpose flour
• 2 cups whole milk
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon pepper
• 1/4 cup cheddar cheese, coarsely grated
• 1/4 cup parmesan cheese, grated
• 1/4 lb mushroom
• 1/2 tablespoon vegetable oil
• 8 slices toast, trimmed
• 8 ounces turkey slices, thinly sliced
• 4 slices bacon, crisp

Recipe

• 1 preheat broiler.
• 2 chop onion.
• 3 in a heavy saucepan heat butter over moderate heat until foam subsides and cook onion about 3 minutes, or until glassy.
• 4 add flour, stirring until smooth.
• 5 add milk, salt, and pepper and simmer, whisking constantly, until thickened and smooth.
• 6 add cheese and remove pan from heat.
• 7 whisk sauce until cheeses are melted.
• 8 thinly slice mushrooms.
• 9 in a skillet heat oil over moderately high heat until hot but not smoking and saute mushrooms, stirring occasionally, until golden and any liquid given off by mushrooms is evaporated.
• 10 season mushrooms with salt.
• 11 in each of 4 ovenproof individual serving dishes top 1 slice of toast with 2 slices turkey or chicken.
• 12 diagonally halve remaining slices of toast and "bracket" each sandwich with 2 halves.
• 13 ladle cheese sauce over sandwiches and broil 4 to 5-inches from heat until sauce begins to bubble and brown, about 2 to 3 minutes.
• 14 crumble bacon.
• 15 top each sandwich with bacon and mushrooms.
• 16 serve sandwiches immediately.