Sharing a Disneyland favorite today, the Monte Cristo Sandwich, an Original Disneyland recipe. It’s just as good as I imagined it to be!
Disneyland Cristo Sandwich
If you’ve been to Disneyland, you know exactly what I’m talking about here. Just about every visit, I like to visit Cafe Orleans located in Disneyland’s New Orleans Square to enjoy the famous Monte Cristo Sandwich with a side of their delicious Pomme Frites too. I was so excited to find an Original recipe from the D23 website.
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Ingredients For Monte Cristo Recipe
- white bread
- Swiss Cheese
- turkey slices
- ham slices
- flour
- baking powder
- kosher salt
- egg
- water
- powdered sugar
- blackberry jam
How To Make a Monte Cristo
- Fill a medium size saucepan just over 1/4 full with Canola or Vegetable oil. Heat to 375 degrees F.
- To prepare the batter, place flour, baking powder and salt in a large mixing bowl, stirring to combine. Stir in water and egg, mixing until well combined.
- To prepare sandwiches, layer bottom slices of bread with a slice of Swiss cheese, 2 slices of turkey, 2 slices of ham and another slice of Swiss Cheese. Close with top slice of bread then cut into fourths. Place a toothpick in each sandwich slice.
- Coat all sides of sandwich triangle with batter. I used a spoon to help coat both sides, instead of dipping. Carefully place one sandwich at a time in hot oil. Cook each side until golden brown. Remove and place onto a paper towel lined plate to drain oil. Continue until all have been coated.
- Dust warm sandwiches with powdered sugar, cut in half and place onto a serving plate with grapes, a few strawberries and blackberry jam for dipping. Enjoy warm.
Once you get the sandwich put together, cut into fourths and stick a toothpick into each quarter.
To make the batter for the Monte Cristo, mix the flour, baking powder, salt, water and egg into a large mixing bowl. Stir until well combined.
Monte Cristo
When you oil is heated to 375 degrees F., have your sandwiches and batter close by so you can be efficient during the frying portion.
Use a large spoon to help coat all sides of sandwich with batter. I found it easier to do this method rather than dipping the sandwich directly into the batter. Your fingers get messy, once the sandwich is in the oil, wash your hands in between frying each sandwich.
When all sandwiches have been fried and drained onto a paper towel plate, dust with powdered sugar.
Cut each sandwich in half. Look at that melted Swiss Cheese!
Arrange the sliced sandwiches onto a serving plate and serve with grapes, strawberries and blackberry jam. I found prepared blackberry jam at Sprouts.
Don’t forget to dip in a little blackberry jam. So good! Hope you enjoy!
Monte Cristo Original Disneyland Recipe
Equipment
- Stove
- saucepan
Ingredients
- Canola or Vegetable Oil
- Batter
- 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1 1/3 cups water
- 1 large egg
- Sandwiches
- 4 slices white bread
- 4 slices swiss cheese
- 4 slices turkey lunch meat
- 4 slices ham lunch meat
- 2 tablespoons powdered sugar
Instructions
- Fill a medium size saucepan just over 1/4 full with Canola or Vegetable oil. Heat to 375 degrees F.
- To prepare the batter, place flour, baking powder and salt in a large mixing bowl, stirring to combine. Stir in water and egg, mixing until well combined.
- To prepare sandwiches, layer bottom slices of bread with a slice of Swiss cheese, 2 slices of turkey, 2 slices of ham and another slice of Swiss Cheese. Close with top slice of bread then cut into fourths. Place a toothpick in each sandwich slice.
- Coat all sides of sandwich triangle with batter. I used a spoon to help coat both sides, instead of dipping. Carefully place one sandwich at a time in hot oil. Cook each side until golden brown. Remove and place onto a paper towel lined plate to drain oil. Continue until all have been coated.
- Dust warm sandwiches with powdered sugar, cut in half and place onto a serving plate with grapes, a few strawberries and blackberry jam for dipping. Enjoy warm.
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I have not tried Monte Cristo Sandwich ^^ but this looks so good! Definitely try this recipe very soon! Thank you!
Delicious!
I made 3 sandwiches from this recipe and they really tasted like the ones I’ve had at Disneyland 😃
Made these today. They where so good!!! We had home made blueberry jam and we did ours in the deep fryer.
This looks so good~ I want to try this recipe right this weekend! Thank you for sharing!
Yum! Can’t wait to make it.
Can these be cooked in an air fryer? They sound really good but deep frying is a little over the top for me.
Thank you for your help.
Hi Kay, I don’t think you’ll get the same results with an air fryer. The batter is pretty runny which would cause some issues putting into an air fryer in my opinion 🙂
Delicious! I wasn’t sure about the jam, but it’s much better with it.
I teach a cooking lesson to a teenager. We made these and they were delicious. Unfortunately for me, she took all of them home. We did try one first though!
I’m working on that myself. Seems best to just put batter on top and sides first, because any on the bottom just sticks and comes off. After it is mostly done turn over and spoon a little batter on the dry side and let it fry a couple more minutes. Came out prett close to deep fryer look.