American

Patty Melt

Name: Patty Melt
Total time: 40 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1.5 lb ground beef; 1 tsp salt; 1/2 tsp black pepper; 2 large onion, sliced; 4 tbsp butter; 8 slices rye bread; 8 swiss cheese slices

Nora @nora_mpls

Patty Melt is American home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

40 min Easy Halal

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

1.5 lb ground beef
1 tsp salt
1/2 tsp black pepper
2 large onion, sliced
4 tbsp butter
8 slices rye bread
8 swiss cheese slices

How to cook it

Melt 2 tbsp of the butter in a skillet over medium-low heat, add the sliced onions, and cook, stirring occasionally, until deeply caramelized, about 25 minutes, then remove.
Form the beef into 4 oval patties sized to the bread and season with salt and pepper.
Cook the patties in the same skillet over medium-high heat until well browned, about 3 minutes per side, then remove.
Butter one side of each bread slice. Build each sandwich with the bread butter-side out, a swiss slice, a patty, a pile of caramelized onion, another swiss slice, and the second bread slice, butter-side out.
Griddle the sandwiches over medium heat until the bread is golden and the cheese melts, about 3 minutes per side.
Cut in half and serve hot.

Watch how to cook Patty Melt

Someone making it start to finish, so you can see what the steps look like.

Serve it with

A American dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Patty Melt, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

The cooked vegetable
- Buttered Corn
  
  8 min
What it is eaten with
- Baked Potato
  
  60 min

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Patty Melt carries dairy and gluten. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Patty Melt
Allergen	In this dish	Cook this instead
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	Yes	Sweet Potato and Black Bean Stew
Gluten	Yes	Sweet Potato and Black Bean Stew
Shellfish	No
Eggs	No
Soy	No
Fish	No
Sesame	No
Coconut	No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories: 740 kcal
Protein: 47 g
Carbs: 30 g
Fat: 48 g
Fiber: 3 g
Sugar: 6 g
Sodium: 1180 mg
Saturated fat: 22 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Patty Melt takes about 40 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.