Grilled Club Sandwiches
This is a sponsored post for Dorothy Lynch Dressing & Condiment. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
When’s the last time you had a really good club sandwich?
If it’s been awhile, consider this your nudge. You don’t have to wait for a meal out to enjoy a great club sandwich. You can make them yourself at home tonight!
About The Recipe
If you’re not familiar, a club sandwich is a hearty sandwich featuring three meats (turkey, ham, and bacon), cheese, tomatoes, and lettuce.
There are not two but three slices of bread in each sandwich.
Trust me: This sandwich will really fill you up!
This club sandwich recipe is a traditional club sandwich recipe with a few small (but delicious!) tweaks:
- Instead of mayonnaise, a sweet-tangy sauce is used
- Avocado is added
- Instead of toasting the bread, you grill it a la grilled cheese
These tweaks improve an already-delicious sandwich.
Money-saving tip: Purchase pre-cooked bacon off the grocery store salad bar.
To Grill Or Not To Grill?
As the old saying goes: Why have a cheese sandwich when you can have grilled cheese?
And on that note – Why have a club sandwich when you can have a grilled club sandwich?
Grilling the sandwich in a frying pan – just like you prepare a grilled cheese – adds butteriness and indulgence to these sandwiches.
Since each club sandwich is made up of three slices of bread – two outer and one inner – you’ll need to toast the inner slice individually, before assembling the sandwiches. Follow the recipe instructions, below.
About The Sauce
The sauce on a traditional club sandwich is mayonnaise. But I think straight mayo is a bit too heavy on an already-hearty sandwich.
Instead, I like to use a sauce made up of equal parts mayonnaise and Dorothy Lynch Dressing & Condiment.
This sauce adds extra flavor – and lightens the sandwich up just a bit.
Dorothy Lynch Dressing & Condiment can be used in so many ways:
- I use it on salads
- As a sauce to put on these pulled pork nachos
- As the base for a sauce for these breakfast croquettes
- To make a delicious peanut sauce for this peanut ramen salad
- To make these delicious meals:
- And there are so many other uses. Find more recipes here.
Dorothy Lynch is made in the Midwest (yay!) and can be purchased locally at Hy-Vee, Walmart, and other grocery stores. You can also purchase it online. It’s gluten free and available in Home Style and Fat Free varieties (I use the Home Style.)
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Grilled Club Sandwiches
Ingredients
For sandwiches
- 12 slices bread (cottage white works well)
- 1 stick room temperature butter
- 1/2 pound sliced turkey breast
- 1/2 pound sliced deli ham
- 4 slices Colby Jack cheese
- 8 slices bacon, cooked
- 2 tomatoes, thinly sliced
- 2 avocados, sliced
- 8 iceberg lettuce leaves
For sauce
- 1/2 cup mayonnaise
- 1/2 cup Dorthy Lynch Dressing & Condiment
Instructions
- Spread 4 slices of bread with butter on both sides. Grill in a frying pan over medium-high heat on both sides until bread is golden brown. Set aside to cool.
- Spread one side of the 8 remaining slices of bread with butter.
- Mix the mayonnaise and Dorothy Lynch Dressing & Condiment together in a small mixing bowl.
- To assemble sandwiches: Lay one slice of bread, butter side down. Spread generously with the sauce. Follow with a slice of cheese, tomato, turkey, toasted bread, ham, lettuce, avocado, more sauce, and bread.
- Grill sandwiches: Heat a frying pan over medium-high heat. Cook sandwich for about 2 minutes on each side, until the bread is toasted golden brown. Press down on the sandwiches with a spatula while cooking to pack down.
- Remove from heat, cut in half (or in fourths), and secure each sandwich with a toothpick, if necessary, to hold sandwich together.