When I was a kid, cheese toasties were life! 🙂 Cheese toasties (or jaffles as they were known in NZ and Australia), are sealed grilled cheese sandwiches made in a sandwich maker (jaffle iron), and are a very popular lunch option. Adding leftovers is a sure-fire way to kick them up a notch. Popular additions are green chili peppers, caramelized onion, sausages, bacon (this bacon grilled cheese sandwich was a favorite), and my personal favorite – leftover curry! 🙂 That is how Curried Beed Grilled Cheese Sandwich became a staple for me well into adulthood. A good curry recipe is ultimate comfort food for K and I. We mash up curry with other flavors for many amazing options! Like this curried potato hash, curried shepherd’s pie with potato masala topping (!), curried beef buns, vegetarian curry puffs, curry roast chicken, curry chicken meatball sandwich etc. And the combination of a spicy, flavorful beef curry with a gooey grilled cheese and my homemade white bread is pretty much ultimate comfort food squared! I used to make this with chicken curry for the longest time, and it’s just as good. Whichever protein you choose for this grilled curry cheese sandwich (lamb curry and pork curry are other fantastic options!), I bet you’ll flip hard for this spicy, cheesy, flavor-packed comfort food mashup. If you’re using chicken for this curry grilled cheese, make sure to use chopped chicken thighs (red meat), so that the meat won’t dry out easily, or you can also use ground chicken (or turkey). If you’re using beef (like I have here), I prefer using chuck or sirloin and then chopping it in the processor. But you can also just as easily use ground beef. In any case, I don’t always cook the meat separately just to make this sandwich. Most often I use leftover curry like this chicken curry here, or this spicy dry beef curry, or this peppery black beef curry. I chop the leftover chicken or beef curry, and then pan fry it with tomato sauce and some extra spices. But here, I’ll be sharing a from scratch recipe for making a grilled curry cheese sandwich instead. The curry filling is so easy and so good that you could even make this without the cheese. You could… but let’s be honest, that’s just blasphemy. The gooey cheese makes it that much better! I use a combination of pepper jack cheese and fresh mozzarella cheese for this grilled curry cheese sandwich. I love the spicy pepper jack paired with the creamy mozzarella. That combo complements the spicy curried beef really well. But you’re welcome to use any cheese you like – I recommend gouda, monterey jack, a mild cheddar, processed block mozzarella, muenster of colby. As long as you mix the cooked beef curry with the cheese at a 1:1 ratio, you should get a delicious balance of a spicy meat filling and gooey cheese for the ultimate curried beef grilled cheese sandwich (or curried chicken grilled cheese sandwich). If you liked this recipe (grilled curry cheese sandwich), don’t forget to subscribe for new (and free) recipes by entering your email address on the side bar (and get all these recipes delivered straight to your inbox), so you don’t miss out on a thing. You can find me on FACEBOOK, INSTAGRAM,  PINTEREST, YOU TUBE and GOOGLE-PLUS too.
