Grilled cheese with smoked cheddar, barbecue pulled pork and apples
The inspiration comes from one i ate at a festival last year and it’s been haunting me ever since, i couldn’t find any recipe similar so here’s our first attempt at recreating it.
We bought « pain de mie » from a bakery and put salted butter and oak smoked vintage cheddar (godminster) on every slices.
I never cooked pulled pork before so i bought some frozen one from Picard and redid the seasoning with salt and pepper, oregano, barbecue sauce and a little of extra spicy ghost pepper barbecue hot sauce.
I thinly sliced apples (it needed an acid taste to break all that fat), next time I’ll probably try to marinate them in lemon juice and oregano (so i don’t have to put oregano in the pork).
We cooked them (with butter in a pan) on low eat with a cover on top because we wanted the cheese to melt evenly while keeping the bread light.
10/10 would recommend as it was.
I was a bit shy with the apples because it’s my first time using them in a sandwich but they deserved to be there. I’ll also try to make pulled pork myself next time, but the one i bought was really good once we seasoned it a bit. It was very satisfying and i’ll try to perfect it !