Tosti — Dutch Ham & Cheese Toastie with Tomato

Ingredients

• 4 slices white sandwich bread
• 5 oz young Gouda, sliced
• 4 slices cooked ham
• 1 Tomato, sliced thin
• 3 tbsp butter, softened
• 1 tsp curry ketchup or mustard
• Black pepper

Method

1. Pat the Tomato slices dry on a towel and season with pepper. Wet vegetables steam the sandwich from the inside and ruin the crunch.
2. Butter the bread on the outside faces only — butter on the outside is the whole difference between a tosti and a sad warm sandwich.
3. Build each one: cheese, ham, Tomato, then more cheese so both slices are glued from within.
4. Press in a hot skillet under a second pan or a foil-wrapped can, 3–4 minutes per side over medium heat, until the crust is deep gold and cheese is escaping at the edges.
5. Rest 1 minute, cut on the diagonal, and dip in curry ketchup. The escaped, fried cheese around the edges is the cook's fee.