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September 7, 2022

Blackberry Grilled Cheese

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A nutrient-dense meal

As a kid and even into adulthood, I remember thinking that a grilled cheese couldn’t be a healthy or nutritious choice. And that can be true depending on the quality of the ingredients. The quality of the ingredients really, really matters. I talked about this more in my homemade vanilla ice cream recipe. Most things that aren’t healthy (ie. lacking any real nutrients) can be made healthy with the right products.

So how did I make this blackberry grilled cheese healthy? I used quality cheese, quality bread and quality butter (and of course, fresh blackberries).

  • For cheese I used fontina because it gives that melty, creamy texture that we all love. If you can find a raw fontina (I got mine at Whole Foods), then that’s your best choice. Raw milk cheese will retain it’s natural flavors the best, as well as providing you with more bioavailable nutrients and probiotics. This is what our great grandparents used to eat, before cheese making became industrialized. If you can’t find raw fontina, opt for a fontina made with grass-fed milk.
  • For bread, I always use sourdough. Sourdough has added benefits that other breads don’t have: decreased antinutrients, lower glycemic load, and less gluten.
  • Use a grass-finished butter, or even better, raw butter.
Is your sourdough REAL sourdough?

Most sourdough on the store shelves aren’t actually sourdough. How they can get away with this, I don’t know. If your sourdough says something like yeast or lactic, citric, ascorbic or acetic acid, it’s most likely not real sourdough. The ingredients of real sourdough will be flour, salt, water and possibly culture/starter (referring to the natural fermentation process that makes sourdough, sourdough).

I also recommend choosing a sourdough that is made with unbleached and unbromated flour. Bromate is a possible carcinogen that is added to many flours and is banned in other countries. I recommend King Arthur Flour, which is always unbromated.

My favorite store-bought bread is Iggy’s and I get it from Whole Foods.

Kitchen essentials
  • A cutting board and a knife
  • A fry pan, griddle or panini pan
Substitutions
  • Fontina cheese: if you don’t have fontina, here are some other creamy, melty cheese options: gouda, mozzarella, provolone and gruyere.
  • Blackberries: use any berry of your choosing. I think blueberries would work great, too.
  • Sourdough: of course you can use any bread of your choosing, but I choose sourdough for the benefits listed above.
  • Butter: can be substituted with mayo.
  • Raw honey: can be substituted with pure maple syrup.
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  • Potato salad with bacon
  • Pickled onion and cucumber salad
  • Roasted peach lemonade
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Blackberry grilled cheese
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Blackberry Grilled Cheese

Recipe by Slow Down Company Course: Main DishesDifficulty: Easy
Servings

1

servings
Prep time

5

minutes
Cooking time

10

minutes
Total time

15

minutes

Ingredients

  • 2 slices of sourdough

  • 1/2 tbsp butter, room temp.

  • 5 oz. fontina cheese

  • 1/3 cup fresh blackberries, rinsed

  • 1 tbsp raw honey

Directions

  • Bring a pan to medium-low heat. As the pan warms up, butter one side of both your bread slices. Cut your fontina cheese into thin 1/4 inch slices and evenly lay out over one slice of bread (on the non-buttered side).
  • Use a fork to roughly mash the blackberries. Evenly spread the smashed blackberries over the cheese. Drizzle with honey and top with the second slice of bread, buttered side facing out.
  • Fry it up! Cook on each side until golden brown, about 3-5 minutes. If using a fry pan, I recommend using the cover to help melt the cheese quicker. Once the cheese looks melty, pull it off the heat and enjoy!

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Nutrition Facts

1 servings per container

Serving Size1 servings


Calories852

  • Amount Per Serving% Daily Value *
  • Total Fat 51.6g 80%
    • Saturated Fat 31.2g 156%
    • Trans Fat 1.3g
  • Cholesterol 179.7mg 60%
  • Sodium 1553.3mg 65%
  • Amount Per Serving% Daily Value *
  • Total Carbohydrate 56.0g 19%
    • Dietary Fiber 3.9g 16%
    • Sugars 24.4g
  • Protein 43.7g 88%

    * The % Daily Value tells you how much a nutrient in a serving of food contributes to a daily diet. 2,000 calories a day is used for general nutrition advice.

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