Crab-Swiss Melt With Asparagus

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We're pushing outpouring a bit, but chances are you'll beryllium making this look much than erstwhile during the tallness of asparagus season. The sandwich filling mightiness punctual you of baked crab dip, though it's much goat food than mayonnaise and brightened with herbs and citrus zest. It calls for conscionable a humble magnitude of the seafood.

This sandwich is not built for a panini press, arsenic the filling is excessively brushed and would squish retired the sides nether the value of the appliance lid. You could prevention calories by making them arsenic open-faced sandwiches alternatively (using a full of 4 slices of bread); if so, fell the asparagus spears nether the Swiss food and tally the sandwiches nether the broiler truthful the Swiss food melts.

Serve with a crockery oregon a pea soup.

Ingredients

  • 16 bladed asparagus spears (about 8 ounces)
  • Olive oil
  • Kosher brackish oregon coarse oversea salt
  • 1 lemon
  • Leaves from 3 oregon 4 stems tarragon
  • 12 to 15 chives
  • 4 ounces goat cheese
  • 1/4 cupful low-fat mayonnaise (do not usage nonfat)
  • 6 ounces to 8 ounces lump crabmeat
  • Freshly crushed achromatic pepper
  • 8 sandwich-size slices crusty, steadfast bread, specified arsenic sourdough oregon ciabatta
  • 4 slices Swiss oregon Emmenthal food (4 ounces total)

Nutritional Facts

Per serving

  • Calories

    610

  • Fat

    25 g

  • Saturated Fat

    13 g

  • Carbohydrates

    62 g

  • Sodium

    1120 mg

  • Cholesterol

    95 mg

  • Protein

    32 g

  • Fiber

    4 g

  • Sugar

    8 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from "Grilled Cheese Please! 50 Scrumptiously Cheesy Recipes," by Laura Werlin (Andrews McMeel, 2011).

Tested by Bonnie S. Benwick.

Published March 8, 2011

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Updated March 13, 2026

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