Fig & Bacon Grilled Cheese

Fig & Bacon Grilled Cheese is an ooey, gooey, cheesy grown-up’s take on a classic! It’s the perfect savory sandwich to make for lunchtime or anytime!

Grilled cheese is one of my all time favorite comfort foods.  Maybe second to mac and cheese.  Growing up, every Halloween my mom made everyone grilled cheese and tomato soup before we went out for the night.  That sandwich is totally my happy place.  And to be totally honest, if I could have name this site Bread, Booze, Cheese, and Bacon I would have.  But cheese doesn’t start with a B.  *sigh*

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Now this isn’t your mom’s grilled cheese.  It’s thick slices of muenster cheese encompassing sweet figs and crispy bacon, all stuffed instead two golden pieces of bread.  This is a bacon lover’s grilled cheese.  The flavors are so great together!  It doesn’t hurt that I grilled the sandwich in the leftover bacon drippings either.  Go big or go home kids!

Julie Kotzbach

Fig & Bacon Grilled Cheese

5 from 1 vote

Fig & Bacon Grilled Cheese is an ooey, gooey, cheesy grown-up's take on a classic! It's the perfect savory sandwich to make for lunchtime or anytime!

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Prep Time 3 minutes mins

Cook Time 15 minutes mins

Total Time 18 minutes mins

Servings: 1 sandwich

Course: Main Dish

Cuisine: American

Calories: 682

Ingredients Instructions Nutrition

Ingredients

  

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• 2 slices white bread
• 1 tablespoon unsalted butter room temperature
• 2 slices muenster cheese I like my slices a little thicker than normal
• 3 dried mission figs
• 2 strips bacon cut in half

Instructions

 

1. Heat a medium skillet over medium-high heat. Cook the bacon until crispy, flipping once. Remove to a paper towel lined plate to cool. Drain bacon fat from skillet.
2. Thinly slice the figs, and set them aside.
3. Spread 1/2 tablespoon butter on one side of each slice of bread.
4. Place one bread slice, butter side down, in the same skillet you used to cook the bacon. Top bread with a slice of muenster cheese, then sliced figs, then the bacon strips, and finally another slice of cheese. Place second bread slice on top of the filling, butter side up.
5. Cook the sandwich for 3 to 4 minutes per side over medium heat, until cheese has melted and bread is golden brown on either side. Serve warm.

Nutrition

Calories: 682 kcalCarbohydrates: 41 gProtein: 24 gFat: 47 gSaturated Fat: 24 gCholesterol: 112 mgSodium: 892 mgPotassium: 382 mgFiber: 3 gSugar: 14 gVitamin A: 915 IUCalcium: 570 mgIron: 2.5 mg

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