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Hot Ham and Cheese Sandwiches

Hot Ham and Cheese Sandwiches

Shock Munch
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Ingredients
  

  • 1 lb deli ham, thinly sliced (I bought ham without nitrates or nitrites)
  • 1 package bacon (I bought bacon without nitrates or nitrites)
  • 1 medium sized onion, sliced
  • 2-3 garlic cloves, minced (optional)
  • Pinch of red pepper flakes (optional)
  • 2 tablespoons butter
  • 1-2 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
  • ½ - 1 tablespoon soy sauce
  • 1-2 tablespoons Dijon mustard
  • ½ lb mild provolone (or your favorite white cheese like swiss), sliced
  • 1 package sweet dinner rolls, cut in half if they are not already pre-cut (I used Kings Hawaiian)
  • Honey, for drizzling (optional)

Instructions
 

  • Cook the bacon in the oven or in a skillet until cooked. I opted to not cook my bacon too crispy because it cooks twice in this recipe. Once the bacon was almost crispy, I pulled it from my oven.
  • Let the bacon drain on a paper towel.
  • In a large skillet, heat 1 tablespoon of olive oil (or 2 additional tablespoons of butter), over medium-high heat. Toss in your onions and cook, stirring occasionally, until they are golden brown and sweet. This takes approx 30 minutes. Note, roughly 10 minutes before the onions are done, add the garlic and stir until ingredients are well combined.
  • While your onions are cooking, preheat your oven to 250 degrees.
  • When your onions are golden brown and caramelized, add in the 2 tablespoons of butter, Worcestershire sauce, soy sauce, red pepper flakes, and mustard. Stir everything around and taste...add as much of those ingredients as you like. Continue to cook the onions for a few extra minutes, then remove from heat and set aside.
  • Line a cookie sheet with tin foil, and spray it with cooking spray.
  • Now line the dinner rolls in rows, trying to ensure they don't touch each other.
  • Top the bottom half of the dinner roll with ham, bacon, cooked onion, then cheese. Top each slider with the top half of the dinner roll. If you're using the honey, grizzle on top of half, or all, of the sliders, whatever you're in the mood for.
  • Lightly spray the top of the sliders with cooking spray.
  • Loosely cover the cookie sheet with more tin foil, and pop your sliders in the oven.
  • Bake the sandwiches at 250 degrees for 25 minutes, or until the cheese has melted.
  • Take the sliders out of the oven and carefully life off the tin foil.
  • Now start munching on some magnificent sliders!

Notes

Note, if you're not into all the extra ingredients, simply placing the ham and cheese, on buttered rolls, into the oven would taste great.
I think the sweetness of the honey adds balance to the sandwiches, but if honey isn't your thing, don't add it. That's why I recommend drizzling only some of the sliders with honey before you bake them, so you can taste and figure out what you like better.
You can totally use regular sandwich rolls instead of sliders if you want. I actually was GOING to make regular sandwiches, but bought dinner rolls instead of sandwich bread. So I had to switch gears and improvised...they still tasted amazing!
Whether you make larger sandwiches or little sliders, wrap any leftover sandwich individually in plastic wrap, ESPECIALLY if you're using sweet bread like Kings Hawaiian, otherwise the sandwiches will stick to each other.