Ingredients
- Egg-battered Bread, recipe follows
- Maple-Bourbon Roast Turkey Breast, recipe follows, sliced into 1/4-inch thick slices
- Cheese Sauce, recipe follows
- 1 cup grated sharp white Cheddar
- 1/4 cup freshly grated Parmesan
- 8 (1/4-inch) thick slices ripe tomato (from 2 tomatoes), sauteed until lightly browned
- 8 slices bacon, cooked until crisp
- Finely chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley, for garnish
Directions
Preheat broiler.
Place the egg bread on a baking sheet, place under the broiler, and heat on both sides for 20 seconds just to warm through.
Top each slice of bread with 2 to 3 slices of turkey, ladle sauce over the top, and divide the Cheddar and Parmesan over the top of each slice. Place under the broiler and cook until bubbly and the top is golden brown. Remove from the oven and top each slice with 2 slices tomato and 2 slices of bacon. Sprinkle each slice with parsley and serve immediately, 2 open-face sandwiches per person.
Egg-battered Bread:
4 large eggs
1/4 cup milk
Salt
8 (1/2-inch thick) slices 1 day-old white bread, such as Pullman or Pain de mie
4 tablespoons butter
4 tablespoons vegetable oil
Whisk together the eggs, milk, and salt in a medium bowl. Dip each slice of bread in the mixture and let sit about 30 seconds, or until completely soaked through.
Heat 2 tablespoons of butter and 2 tablespoons of oil in a large nonstick saute pan over medium-high heat. Cook 4 slices of the bread at a time until golden brown on both sides. Remove and place on a baking sheet. Repeat with the remaining butter, oil, and bread.
Maple-Bourbon Roast Turkey Breast:
1/4 cup pure maple syrup
1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
2 tablespoons bourbon
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
1 (4 to 5-pound) turkey breast
2 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened
Preheat oven to 425 degrees F.
Whisk together syrup, mustard, and bourbon in a small bowl and season with salt and lots of freshly ground black pepper. Set glaze aside.
Rub entire turkey breast with butter and season with salt and pepper. Place in a small roasting pan and roast for 15 minutes. Reduce the heat to 350 degrees F and continue roasting until a thermometer inserted into the center registers 155 degrees F, about 1 to 1 1/2 hours. During the last 15 minutes of roasting, brush the breast with the glaze. Remove from the oven, loosely tent with foil and let rest 10 minutes before slicing.
Cheese Sauce:
2 tablespoons unsalted butter
2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
2 1/2 cups whole milk
3/4 cup grated sharp white Cheddar
1/4 cup grated Parmesan
Pinch freshly grated nutmeg
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
Melt butter over medium heat in a medium saucepan. Whisk in the flour and cook for 1 minute. Whisk in the milk, bring to a boil and cook, whisking constantly, until thickened and the flour has cooked out, about 4 to 5 minutes. Whisk in cheese and cook until melted. Season with nutmeg, salt, and pepper, to taste.
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By rocketj
on April 28, 2011
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Loved everything but the french toast. I should have used a lighted bread.
My father,now desceased, told my brother and me that he worked at the Brown Hotel back when the hot brown was invented. He said they experimented with a lot of different recipes. they almost added bacon pieces into the sauce in the origional recipe but changed it at the last minute because of the inconsistency of the bacon flavor at that time.
He also said they used waffles and, my favorite,pancakes as a toast substitute.
By cgilkey1
Bakersfield, CA
on April 04, 2010
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From all the other reviews I see that I am in the minority, but we found this recipe to be bland, bland, bland! Perhaps its my fault because I made a couple of changes and used 1/2 & 1/2 Cream instead of milk, and I used Pecorino Romano Cheese. These are the ingredients used in the recipe from the Brown Hotel in Louisville's website (they are the inventors of the Kentucky Hot Brown.
We even went so far as to purchase "Frying Pan Server plates" at a local restaurant supply house so our Kentucky Hot Browns would look like the "real thing."
We will make this recipe again, but we will add more herbs (sage and spices.
By tellez5_12429739
JUNCTION CITY, 77
on March 28, 2010
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Very close to the authentic original version from the Brown Hotel in Louisville!
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