Cheese on a grill, but better! Ham and pineapple give the dish a tropical feel.
| Prep Time: | 5 mins |
| Cook Time: | 10 mins |
| Total Time: | 15 mins |
| Servings: | 4 |
| Yield: | 4 sandwiches |
Ingredients
- 3 tablespoons butter or margarine, softened
- 8 slices bread
- 4 slices Swiss cheese
- 8 slices thinly sliced cooked ham
- 1 (8 ounce) can crushed pineapple, drained
Instructions
- Heat a large skillet over medium-high heat. Spread butter onto one side of each slice of bread. Place up to 4 of the slices of bread, butter side down in the skillet. Top each piece with one slice of cheese, two slices of ham, and about 2 tablespoons of the crushed pineapple. Place remaining slices of bread on top with the butter side up. When the bottom of the sandwich is golden brown, flip sandwiches, and cook until browned on the other side, about 1 minute. Repeat steps with remaining ingredients if all four sandwiches do not fit in your skillet.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 490 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 36 g |
| Cholesterol | 81 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 2 g |
| Protein | 22 g |
| Saturated Fat | 15 g |
| Sodium | 1185 mg |
| Sugars | 11 g |
| Fat | 29 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
really great flavor of ham and pineapple. will make again!
I served this for dinner with chips on the side for a quick and easy dinner night. I made it with flour tortilla instead of bread and used a panini maker to flatten it. Everyone enjoyed this recipe to say the least.
YUM!! Made in the Panini press–so easy! A fun, new flavor combination for grilled cheese sandwiches! Thanks!
These were O.K. I was thankful for the idea when renovating my kitchen. With no oven etc. Its worth a try.
Hawaiian pizza in grilled cheese form! The best sauce i have found for this is panago’s tropical sauce found on their tropical Hawaiian. Yes, you can get just the sauce, I got 4 small containers for $3.
Not a fan. Tried toasting the bread first which didn’t help the flavor. For my family we just didn’t like the combination of flavors.
Mmmm…happy belly right now 😀
Quick, easy, tasty, fairly nutritious and inexpensive. A keeper in a house with 8 kids!!! No changes necessary, we just serve with a side salad.
These taste pretty good. But it seems like they never come out perfect like every other grilled sandwich we make. No matter how much i drain the pineapple the bread is a bit soggy on that one side. Putting the pineapple under the cheese helps some, but some falls out the side when you flip them. Maybe pineapple rings would work better for us? I will try them a third time and see if that is the charm.
yum!
Excellent flavor combination. I made mine with very thinly sliced brown sugar ham (heated a little before putting on the sandwich) and whole oat nut bread. To keep the bread from getting soggy, I sandwiched the crushed pineapple between the cheese and ham. Thanks for this great, simple idea to perk up an ordinary grilled ham ham and cheese.
A good quick sandwich for lunch or dinner. I used Hawaiian Rolls for the bread as I had a few to use up. I just cut them to the thickness of bread. I didn’t want the bread to become soggy from the pineapple, so I placed it in the ham layer rather than against the bun. The result was a warm, tasty sandwich that I would make again.
I used Hawaiian bread, and although it gave a good flavor it was to soft & got squished when I was flipping it. I would recommended the the Hawaiian bread however choose the rolls or hamburger buns. This are thicker and shouldnt be to much of an issue. Other then that I used a thin slice pre cooked ham, and grilled it before I put the sandwich together. I used to pieces a sandwich to allow the pineapple and cheese to stay away from the bread so the previous listed issues of soggy bread didnt happen. It does have a unique flavor, that will defiantly be made again =)
Okay for a change of pace, but nothing special.
I loved it!
This sandwich was just ok. After reading so many great reviews, I was sure this would be a hit. I was quite disappointed with the flavour, or rather, lack of it. I found the sandwich quite bland. That’s not to say I won’t try it again – only the next time I will try another reviewer’s suggestion about using mozzarella cheese and pizza sauce.
I really enjoyed this! It was so fast and easy to put together. I did toast these in the oven on buns as another view suggested and it was so very good. I will be making them again!
Had buns to use up so I grilled the insides of buns and layered cheese and ham on each side then pineapple in middle. Then wrapped in foil and into oven to warm/melt/toast.
Great recipe, will make again. I cooked these in my sandwich maker.
This was a really good recipe. We loved it. Will definately make this many more times in the future.
great spin on a sandwich.