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It’s grilled cheese and soup season, y’all! One of my favorite things about the cooling temperatures of fall is being able to make soup again. Don’t get me wrong, I still make soup through the summer occasionally…but through fall and winter we have soup and sandwiches almost once a week! My whole family loves it, so why not? We all love a classic grilled cheese sandwich, and I make grilled cheese for lunch pretty regularly, too. The kids usually like just plain grilled cheese, but I like to mix it up for my husband and I. That’s how I came up with these delicious southwest turkey grilled cheese sandwiches, made with Sargento® All-Natural Cheese Slices. Oh my gosh, you guys, this sandwich is SO yummy! It’s filling enough to be a meal all by itself, plus it’s got a delicious kick from the Colby Pepper Jack cheese and some homemade Chipotle mayo. You definitely need to give this a try!
Part of what makes this sandwich so yummy is using REAL cheese, not that individually wrapped cheese food stuff. I love using Sargento® sliced cheese on our sandwiches, especially knowing that it is 100% real, natural, cut-from-the-block cheese. Compare it with Pasteurized Process Cheese Food, which is only required to contain 51% real cheese and may be mixed with up to 15 other ingredients. (Oy! I didn’t know that – did you?)
Plus Sargento® is available in 23 delicious varieties! That’s a whole lot of sandwich combinations. Grilled sandwiches would never get boring!
For this Southwest Turkey Grilled Cheese sandwich, I usedSargento® Colby-Pepper Jack. It had just the right amount of melty goodness and spicy kick I was looking for. I also mixed up a batch of Chipotle mayo – 1/2 c. of mayonnaise, 1 chipotle pepper in adobo sauce (from the can) along with a good spoonful of the adobo sauce, and a little splash of lime juice. I blended it up in a mini food-processor, but you could chop up the pepper by hand if you want. (Quick tip – put the rest of your can of chipotle peppers in a small ziplock bag and stick them in the freezer for the next time you just need 1 or 2, rather than wasting the whole can!)
Beyond that, you can add whatever toppings you want on your sandwich! I used turkey from the deli counter, baby spinach, and sliced tomato. You could also add some bacon, avocado, cilantro, red onion – whatever you have on hand. The secret to a good grilled cheese sandwich is using nice soft, thick bread (I like picking up a loaf of texas toast from the bread aisle) and, of course, real butter. And lots of it.
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What’s your favorite variation on a grilled cheese sandwich? There’s lots of time left in soup-and-sandwich season to try out more!
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I completely agree, there’s something so comforting about grilled cheese and soup in the colder months! The Southwest Turkey Grilled Cheese sounds delicious, especially with the Sargento® Colby-Pepper Jack cheese and homemade chipotle mayo. Using real, natural cheese makes all the difference in flavor. Thanks for sharing this creative recipe idea, I can’t wait to try it out!