Let’s talk about grilled cheese, baby. The kind of grilled cheese that makes you sigh in semi-sexual (don’t look at me like that—it’s true!) pleasure before you even take a bite. The kind of grilled cheese that totally transforms your life day. Here it is. It hath arrived.
The Caramelized Fennel, Onion & Kale Grilled Cheese Sandwich.
I know. It’s a grilled cheese with kale in it. I’m changing your life right now. Right before your very eyes. The superfood vegetable with which the world is deeply obsessed is about to enter your mouth via a grilled cheese sandwich. Along with caramelized fennel and onions, browned to umami glory.
Get the recipe on this week’s Intuitive Eating with yours truly, on Sonima.com. For Mental Ease: Because seriously, what is more relaxing than a sizzling cast-iron skillet-ful of butter and melting cheese.
Enter grilled cheese heaven.
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup thinly sliced fennel bulb
- 1/4 cup thinly sliced yellow onion
- 2 teaspoons olive oil
- 1/4 teaspoon sea salt
- 6-8 leaves medium to large kale washed, stemmed, and chopped into 1/4-inch strips
- 4 slices bread of your choice I used a sourdough baguette
- 4 slices large cheddar cheese enough to cover two pieces of bread with two slices each
- 1 tablespoon butter
Instructions
- Place sliced fennel, onion, olive oil, and sea salt in a medium frying pan over medium flame. Stir gently as the onions and fennel begin to caramelize, about 10 minutes. When the onions are browning and becoming translucent, add in chopped kale and stir until kale turns soft and bright green, about 2 minutes.
- In a large cast iron skillet or frying pan, melt 1 tablespoon butter over medium-low heat. Place all four pieces of bread in the butter, flipping to evenly coast slices with butter. Place two slices of cheese on bottom piece of bread for each sandwich. Spread on as much of the fennel, onion, and kale mixture as you’d like, and then place the second piece of bread on top.
- Cover the pan with a lid and let cook for 2 minutes. Lift lid and flip sandwiches with a spatula. Replace lid, and cook for another 2 minutes. Continue this process until your cheese is as meltily divine as you’d like, and the bread is perfectly golden brown. If your bread is browning too quickly and the cheese isn’t yet melted, turn down the heat.
- Eat immediately, and feel the comfort flood every cell of your body and mind.
