- prep: 30 min
- cook: 0 hr
- total: 30 min
Summary
At San Francisco's famed Tartine Bakery, croque-monsieur is one of the most popular menu items. Croque-montagnarde, another crowd-pleaser, is a richer, more robust version, thanks to potatoes laced with olive oil. Recipe and image reprinted with permission from "Tartine Bread," by Chad Robertson, with photographs by Eric Wolfinger.
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 1 1/4 cups whole milk, warmed
- Coarse salt and freshly ground pepper
- 12 small fingerling potatoes (or 4 to 5 ounces other small waxy potatoes), cooked until tender, smashed
- 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
- 4 slices (3/4 inch thick) day-old Tartine Bakery's Country Bread
- 4 thick slices smoked ham
- 8 slices Gruyere cheese (4 ounces)
Instructions
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Nutrition
Nutritional Info

- Servings Per Recipe: 4
- Amount Per Serving
- Calories: 374 % Daily Value *
- Total Fat: 20 g 30.45%
- Saturated Fat: 7 g 35.64%
- Trans Fat: 0 g %
- Cholesterol: 85 mg 28.21%
- Sodium: 1466 mg 61.1%
- Calcium: 136 mg 13.6%
- Potassium: 6 mg 0.17%
- Magnesium: 0 mg 0%
- Iron: 1 mg 7.01%
- Zinc: 0 mg 0%
- Total Carbohydrate: 29 g %
- Dietary Fiber: 1 g 3.42%
- Sugar: 6 g
- Protein: 22 g
- Alcohol: 0 g
- Omega 3 Fatty Acid: 0 g
- Omega 6 Fatty Acid: 1 g
- Vitamin A 4.8%
- Vitamin C 0%
- Vitamin D 0%
- * Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet. Your Daily Values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
Diabetes Exchanges
- Exchange - Fat3
- Exchange - Fruit0
- Exchange - NonFat Milk0
- Exchange - Other Carbs0
- Exchange - Starch1
- Exchange - Vegetables0
- Exchange - Lean Meat2
- Exchange - Alcohol0
MyPlate Info
- MyPlate - Grain Total1 oz-eq
- MyPlate - Vegetable Total0 c
- MyPlate - Fruit0 c
- MyPlate - Dairy0 c
- MyPlate - Protein Total2 oz-eq