Dinner · 12 min · Amounts not specified
Kimchi grilled cheese
Squeeze kimchi dry or the bread steams.
The sheet · 1 sandwich · 12 min
easyWhy tonight. Squeeze kimchi dry or the bread steams.
What it needs
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- bread
- cheddar
- kimchi
- butter
Good if you have them, fine if you do not: scallion.
Method
- Squeeze the kimchi out and chop it, then fry it in the pan first until it darkens. Wet raw kimchi steams the sandwich open.
- Cheese on both slices with the kimchi between, so the cheese seals it.
- Butter the outside of the bread rather than the pan, and go medium-low. High heat browns before the cheese moves.
- Press it, and give it longer than feels necessary on each side. Scallion inside at the end if you want the fresh note back.
Technique coach
What the method is trying to make happen
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The technique underneath this
- Pan sauceTurning what stuck to the pan into a sauce. Two minutes of work at the end of something you already cooked.watery · too salty · greasy · broken · bitter
- Bread doughDeveloping gluten and letting fermentation do the flavor, which is mostly a matter of time rather than effort.dense · flat · gummy inside · tore during shaping · over-proofed
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- Bread and doughNO KNEAD Tartine Sourdough BreadBrian LagerstromA Tartine-style loaf from mixing to bake, with the timings a home oven actually needs.Link checked 2026-09-08
- Bread and doughHow to knead bread doughKing Arthur Baking CompanyHand kneading, and how to tell when the gluten is developed rather than guessing at minutes.Link checked 2026-09-08
- Bread and doughSourdough Bread | Basics with Babish (feat. Joshua Weissman)Binging with BabishMixing, proofing and shaping worked through slowly enough to follow the first time.Link checked 2026-09-08
Why each of these is on the list
What the ingredients are actually doing
- bread
- Structure, thickener, and the reason a lot of these dishes stretch.
- cheddar
- Sharpness plus melt. Aged cheddar tastes like more and melts like less, so a dish that wants both usually wants a mix — grate it, do not slice it, and take the pan off the heat before it goes in.
- kimchi
- Sour, spicy and funky, and older is better for cooking.
- butter
- Flavor and body in the same spoonful.
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