Baked ham and cheese croissant are my guilty brunch time pleasure.
Prepare these hot cheesy ham filled croissants easily at home within minutes and indulge each bite slowly.
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This is a super easy breakfast, brunch, lunch or anytime-I'm-craving-comfort-food idea.
Ingredient Notes
- Croissant — Buttery flaky French style croissant is your best option, even if they are stuffed with calories. I love love love when the croissant is a real deal croissant and not some poor substitute clone of a croissant. You can use a large or smaller croissant size, that's up to you but know that it's easier to stuff a larger croissant with the ham and cheese.
- Cheese Slice — I think the best cheese for a ham and cheese croissant is a Swiss cheese such as Emmentaler or a slice of Gruyère cheese. However, feel free to use any other cheese made of real cow milk, such as cheddar. Swiss Cheese is superior in many ways, and this is something you need to try out for yourself to understand what I mean.
- Ham — I use quality pink, thin cut slices of ham and I those tend to be larger, so I wrap the ham over the cheese. That way, the cheese is locked in the ham and doesn't spill out that easily when baked. The best part is when you can bite into your ham and cheese croissant sandwich and the cheese starts to ooze out. You can use Italian Prosciutto ham too if you like in this croissant breakfast sandwich.
How to make it?
Step 1
Grab a fresh French croissant and cut it open lengthwise.
Take a slice of cheese and fold a large slice of ham over the cheese slice.
Step 2
Stuff the croissant with the ham and cheese slice so that it's all in the croissant.
Step 3
Bake a few minutes until you see the cheese melting out of your ham and cheese croissant bake.
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Ham and Cheese Croissant Recipe
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 350° Fahrenheit/ 180° Celsius.
- Cut open your croissant lengthwise, just enough to create a pocket.4 Croissant
- Wrap your ham around the cheese if it's a large slice of ham or just place 1 slice of ham over a one slice of cheese.4 slices Ham, 4 slices Cheese
- Fill the croissant with the ham and cheese. Try to stuff it if the ham and cheese are looking out of the croissant.
- Place a baking sheet over the baking tray.
- Place your stuffed croissant on the baking sheet and bake your croissant at 350° Fahrenheit/ 180° Celsius for about 5 minutes or until you see the cheese melting.
- Take out the hot croissant sandwich and leave to cool a bit. Enjoy still warm with the cheese melting out.
Nutrition
Other Flavor Enhancing Ingredients
You can also add the following ingredients to pep up and turn this ham and cheese croissant recipe into your own awesome creation!
- dried marjoram, oregano, or basil leaves
- red chili flakes
- scrambled eggs
- chopped onion
- freshly cut chives
- tomato slice
- pineapple chunks (aka Hawaii ham and cheese croissant)
- use bacon instead of ham
Serving Ides
Enjoy your ham and cheese stuffed croissant as a breakfast, brunch, lighter lunch or snack.
As a lunch, you can serve them with a simple small green lettuce side dish salad, a radish broccoli salad or any other side dish salad.
A fancy celebratory brunch could also be served with salmon dill cucumber cream cheese stuffed savory crêpes, smoked salmon bread bites, and a French Kir Royal.
