Croque Madame

Total Time: 36 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 6 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 2
• 6 tablespoons butter
• 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour
• 1 cup milk
• salt
• black pepper
• 1/8 teaspoon grated fresh nutmeg
• 2 teaspoons dijon mustard
• 2 large eggs
• 4 slices bread
• 4 slices deli ham
• 4 slices swiss cheese
• chopped fresh flat leaf parsley or fresh chives or fresh thyme

Recipe

• 1 place a small saucepan over medium-low heat; melt 2 tablespoons butter; whisk in the flour and cook for 1 minute or so.
• 2 whisk in the milk and bring it to a bubble; then decrease the heat to low.
• 3 season the sauce with salt, pepper, nutmeg, and dijon mustard.
• 4 when the bechamel sauce coats the back of a spoon, turn off the heat.
• 5 heat 1 tablespoon of the butter in a medium nonstick skillet over med-low heat.
• 6 when the butter melts, crack in the eggs, keeping the whites separate from each other.
• 7 cook them to desired doneness, sunnyside up to over hard.
• 8 while the eggs cook, generously butter the bread with the remaining 3 tablespoons of butter.
• 9 keep the buttered sides facing out and build ham and cheese sandwiches, spreading bechamel on the insides of the bread and using 2 slices of ham and cheese for each sandwich.
• 10 heat a second skillet over medium heat; cook the sandwiches 3-4 minutes until golden, then turn.
• 11 cook them for 2 minutes more, then transfer them to plates, and top with eggs and more sauce; garnish with the chopped herb of choice and serve with a fork and knife.