This Rosemary Bacon Tomato Grilled Cheese sandwich is delicious and a perfect way to celebrate National Grilled Cheese Day!
Nothing says comfort food to me like a grilled cheese sandwich and a piping hot bowl of tomato soup.
My mom made this for my siblings and me when I was a child and we lived in New York.
I’m sure she made it all year long but I remember eating it the most in the freezing winter.
Coming in from playing out in the snow, my fingers, toes, and nose feeling like they were about to fall off nothing warmed me up as well as mom’s grilled cheese sandwich and tomato soup for lunch.
Grilled cheese sandwiches have come a long way from when I was a kid, back then a couple of slices of white bread and some cheese were good enough.
These days a grilled cheese sandwich can include so much more.
Rosemary Grilled Cheese Sandwich
I have to tell you this was a first for me.
I love using herbs in my cooking but never before have I used herbs on a grilled cheese sandwich. After eating it I have to ask myself what was I thinking not experimenting before now!
Rosemary is the star of this show. I swear I heard trumpets playing when I tasted my first bite.
Just kidding but after that first bite, I couldn’t stop until the entire sandwich was gone.
The golden crispy bread and savory rosemary butter tasted like my sandwich was made with a slice of artisan bread.
Print the Rosemary Bacon Tomato Grilled Cheese recipe below.
Rosemary Bacon Tomato Grilled Cheese Recipe
Ingredients
For Rosemary Butter:
- 1 teaspoon finely minced fresh rosemary
- 4 tablespoons butter (softened)
For one sandwich
- 2 slices White Bread
- 2 slices American Cheese or your favorite cheese
- 3 slices fried bacon
- 2 slices fresh tomato
Instructions
Prep
- Mince the fresh rosemary.
- Stir the minced rosemary into the softened butter and set aside while making the bacon.
- Fry the bacon in a skillet and drain on a paper towel.
- Slice your tomato and drain on a paper towel.
How To Assemble and grill the sandwich:
- Place one piece of cheese on the bottom piece of bread. Break the three slices of bacon in half and arrange 3 of the half slices on top of the cheese. Layer the two slices of tomato on top of the bacon.
- Arrange the remaining three halves of bacon on top of the tomato and layer the last piece of cheese on top of the bacon. Cover with the second slice of white bread. Do not smash your stack down.
- Heat a skillet on medium-high heat.
- Butter the top piece of bread with as much herbed butter as you need to cover the piece of bread completely. Lightly butter the edges of the bread.
- Place a small dollop of the herbed butter into the skillet. Once it begins to sputter your skillet is hot enough.
- Carefully flip the sandwich over into the pan and butter the other side of the bread.
- Allow to cook until the bottom piece of bread is golden brown.
- Flip over and cook the other side until golden brown and your cheese is melted. You can apply a little bit of pressure at this point to the top piece of bread so the cheese melts into the bacon.
- Remove the grilled sandwich from pan when done.
- Slice in half and enjoy with a bowl of tomato soup if you like.
- Serve with a bowl of tomato soup.
- One sandwich.
Recipe Expert Tips
- Make the herbed butter before you start cooking your bacon and set aside.
- Serve with creamy tomato soup or a favorite soup.
Barb Hokanson
Great with Cheddar Horseradish Cheese.
Flour On My Face
Barb so funny you should mention Cheddar Horseradish cheese. I was just talking about how I used to buy it all the time and wondered if my grocery store still carried it. You are so right this would taste awesome made with it!
teresa faidley
Looks yummy What a great idea Love to have Grilled Cheese and Tomato soup will be trying this soon.
Rose Powell
This sounds absolutely delicious and different. I like that... Taking an original and upstaging it a bit! Yay for Rosemary Butter, would have NEVER thought of that!
Flour On My Face
Rose it tastes so good! You have to try it. Thanks for stopping by!
Annie Oakley's Kitchen
Rosemary butter....what a great idea! We often have grilled cheese and tomato soup on lazy Sundays. This would be a great one to change things up a bit!
Flour On My Face
Annie
It is so good you have got to try it!
Carol
This recipe sounds like what I make with ham instead of bacon. Love your way of making it special with herbed butter!
Paula Landua
Just got this on my face book, I love gilled cheese sandwiches and I love Rosemary...and have my own Rosemary bush in the yard, Never thought about using on a grilled cheese. Trying it tomorrow. Sounds yummy.
Carrie @ Bakeaholic Mama
I want a grilled cheese SOOOO bad now.
Gabrielle
Oh my gosh yum. I love grilled cheese and I love bacon and I love rosemary. Definitely trying this on Monday.
Jo-Lynne {Musings of a Housewife}
I know what I'M having for lunch today!!!!! YUM.