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Skillet Grilled Cheese with Tomato Soup

Three-cheese griddled sandwiches with a five-minute creamy tomato soup for dunking.

Skillet Grilled Cheese with Tomato Soup, plated and ready to serve
Serves
4
Total time
30 min
Cost per serving (United States)
$8.70

Ingredients

  • 1 sourdough loaf
  • 8 oz block cheddar cheese
  • 4 oz shredded mozzarella
  • 5 tbsp salted butter
  • 28 oz canned crushed tomatoes
  • 1 1/2 cup vegetable broth
  • 1/2 cup heavy whipping cream
  • 1 yellow onions
  • 3 clove garlic
  • 1 1/2 tsp dried basil
  • 2 tsp kosher salt

Method

  1. Melt 1 tablespoon butter in a pot and cook the diced onion and garlic 6 minutes until soft.

  2. Add the crushed tomatoes, broth, dried basil, and salt. Simmer 12 minutes, then blend smooth with an immersion blender or mash well.

  3. Stir in the cream and keep warm over low heat.

  4. Cut eight thick slices of sourdough and butter one side of each.

  5. Build four sandwiches butter-side out with sliced cheddar and shredded mozzarella.

  6. Griddle over medium 4 minutes per side, pressing lightly, until deep golden and fully melted. Serve with bowls of soup.

What this costs, country by country

Each figure is the ingredients for the full recipe at prices read in that country’s own shops, in its own currency. Nothing here is converted from dollars.

The cost of this recipe in 11 countries, each in its own currency, with how many of the 11 ingredients we could price in each. Figures are not converted between currencies, so the rows cannot be ranked against each other.
CountryWhole recipePer servingPriced from
United Kingdom£32.77£8.1911 of 11 ingredients
Canada$105.09$26.2711 of 11 ingredients
Australia$63.18$15.8010 of 11 ingredients
New Zealand$61.05$15.2610 of 11 ingredients
Spain23,40 €5,85 €10 of 11 ingredients
United States$34.80$8.709 of 11 ingredients
Greece31,49 €7,87 €9 of 11 ingredients
Egypt‏١٬٠٠٢٫١١ ج.م.‏‏٢٥٠٫٥٣ ج.م.‏8 of 11 ingredients
Germany22,95 €5,74 €8 of 11 ingredients
Austria€ 28,13€ 7,038 of 11 ingredients
Mexico$479.13*$119.787 of 11 ingredients

* We have read fewer than seven in ten of these ingredients in that country, so the total is a partial figure and the real one is higher.

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