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Grilled Cheese

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A grilled cheese, also called a toasted cheese sandwich, cheese toastie or cheese jaffle, is a hot cheese sandwich typically made by placing cheese between slices of bread and cooking it with butter or mayonnaise on a frying pan, griddle or pie iron until the bread browns and the cheese melts. Despite the name it is rarely prepared through actual grilling. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Classification
Course
Snack or Street Food 1
Dietary Suitability
Contains Dairy or Egg 2
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Uses Ingredient

Cheese, Ingredients
Source Grilled cheese (Wikipedia)
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1. Grilled Cheese (Wikidata)
P31 (instance of): Snack or street food
Quote, P31 (instance of): Snack or street food
Snack or street food
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2. Grilled cheese (Wikipedia)
  • Introduction
    Despite its name, it is rarely prepared through grilling.
  • Introduction
    A grilled cheese, toasted cheese sandwich, cheese toastie (UK) or cheese jaffle (AU) is a hot cheese sandwich typically prepared by placing cheese between slices of bread and cooking with butter or mayonnaise on a frying pan, griddle, or pie iron, until the bread browns and the cheese melts.
  • Uses Ingredient: Cheese, Infobox main_ingredient field: Cheese, bread
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