Best Louisville Hot Brown Recipes

LOUISVILLE HOT BROWN

Steps:

• Make the cheese sauce:.
• In a 2-quart saucepan, melt butter over medium heat. Add flour and cook mixture, stirring constantly, for 3 minutes. Add milk and continue to stir. Increase heat to medium-high and bring mixture to a boil. Cook for 1 more minute. Remove saucepan from heat and whisk in cheeses, mustard, Tabasco sauce, and salt. Cover and keep warm.
• Cook the bacon:.
• In a large skillet, cook bacon over high heat until crisp and brown -- 4 to 6 minutes. Transfer bacon to a paper towel to drain. When bacon is cool, crumble or coarsely chop.
• Make the sandwiches:.
• Preheat oven broiler. In a large ovenproof dish, arrange toasted bread slices and layer them with turkey and tomato slices. Sprinkle with pepper and spoon cheese sauce on top. Place the sandwiches under broiler and cook until sauce begins to brown lightly -- 2 to 3 minutes. Remove from oven, sprinkle with bacon, and serve immediately.

LOUISVILLE HOT BROWN SANDWICH

Steps:

• Preheat broiler.
• Add grated Cheddar to cream sauce and stir to melt; keep warm.
• Place slices of turkey on the toast. Cover each with 1/4 cup sauce.
• Place 2 strips of bacon on each sandwich.
• Sprinkle 1 tablespoon Parmesan on top of each sandwich; place sandwiches on ovenproof dish and place under broiler
• Broil until bubbly and speckled brown.

THE HOT BROWN SANDWICH OF LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY

Steps:

• 1. Fry bacon crisp, drain on paper towel & reserve. Crumble, if desired.
• 2. For the sauce, melt butter, in a heavy pan, over medium heat. Add onion and cook until tender or clear.
• 3. Add flour and blend to make a smooth paste.
• 4. Add hot milk, salt, and red pepper flakes or hot sauce. Stir and cook until thick & smooth.
• 5. Stir in cheese, beaten eggs, and remaining tablespoon of butter. Continue to cook, stirring until mixture almost reaches boiling point, but do not let it boil. Remove from heat.
• 6. Preheat broiler while putting sandwiches together.
• 7. To assemble, toast 8 slices of bread; cut 4 in half diagonally.
• 8. On 4 ovenproof plates or other ovenware, arrange toast. Lay sliced turkey or chicken over toast. Cover this with sauce.
• 9. If using slices of ripe tomato, add now. Sprinkle with Parmesan cheese.
• 10. Place under preheated broiler, until sauce begins to bubble.
• 11. Remove from oven. Sprinkle with paprika. Add bacon (whole or crumbled). Serve remaining toast, on the side.

LOUISVILLE HOT BROWN

Steps:

• Saute onion in butter until transparent, add flour and cook stirring for 1 minute.
• Add milk, salt and pepper and whisk until smooth.
• Cook on medium heat until sauce thickens, stirring occasionally.
• Add cheeses and continue heating until they blend.
• Remove from heat.
• Put one slice of toast in each of four oven-proof individual serving dishes (I used our 1980's stoneware dinner plates).
• Top each piece of toast with slices of chicken or turkey.
• Slice remaining toasts diagonally and place on sides of sandwiches.
• Ladle cheese sauce over sandwiches.
• Place sandwiches under broiler until sauce begins to bubble.
• Garnish with crumbled bacon and sauteed mushroom slices and serve immediately.

LOUISVILLE HOT BROWN

Steps:

• 1. I roasted an 8 lb. turkey breast at 325* with some butter and my seasonings (salt, pepper, garlic powder & onion powder) for about 4 1/2 hours til it reached 180* with a meat thermometer.
• 2. To make the cheese sauce: melt butter over medium heat. Add flour and cook mixture, stirring constantly for 3 minutes. Add milk and continue to stir. Increase heat to medium high heat and bring mixture to a boil. Cook for another minute. Remove saucepan from heat and whisk in cheeses, mustard, hot sauce & salt. Cover & keep warm.
• 3. Cook the bacon, once cool, crumble or chop.
• 4. Because I used Texas Toast, I cooked the toast in the oven turning once to "toast" both sides before the last step. I also broiled the sandwiches on a cookie sheet.
• 5. Put together the sandwiches: Preheat oven broiler. In a large ovenproof dish, arrange toasted bread slices and layer them with turkey and tomato slices. Sprinkle with pepper and spoon cheese sauce on top. Place the sandwiches under broiler and cook until sauce begins to brown lightly, 2-3 minutes. Remove from oven, sprinkle with bacon and serve immediately.