Valentina Ablaev
Hot Sandwiches (open-faced style) are made with a variety of lunch meats, green onion, cheese, avocado, and tomatoes, then spread on French bread and toasted to crunchy perfection! This recipe is great for breakfast, as an appetizer, or your next party!
We love to make delicious sandwiches throughout the week. Sandwiches like our classic Italian sub and our gourmet grilled cheese sandwich use lots of lunch meat, and sometimes there’s extra leftover deli meat. This recipe is the perfect way to use up those leftovers!
Use your favorite combination of lunch meat; add tomatoes and avocado with mayo and cheese. Top mixture onto bread slices and toast. The mixture becomes hot, and the cheese and bread are crunchy. Such a simple recipe but so delicious!
Ingredients for Hot Sandwiches:
The key is using ingredients that you have on hand!
- Lunch meat – a combination of your favorite lunch meat! You can use ham, turkey, chicken, or pepperoni.
- Green onions – finely chopped, add so much flavor.
- Vegetables – a combination of cherry tomatoes and avocado.
- Shredded cheese – your favorite shredded cheese makes these hot sandwiches irresistibly cheesy.
- Mayo – makes the filling creamy.
- Seasoning – salt and pepper are all you need.
- Garlic – freshly minced garlic adds so much flavor.
- French bread – we like to use slices of french bread because it’s soft and toasts amazingly.See the recipe card below for a full list of ingredients and quantities.
How to Make Hot Sandwiches
Numbered Instructions on how to make the recipe.
- Chop up the lunch meat into fine chunks. Slice the green onions, tomatoes, and avocado into roughly equal-sized pieces.
- To a large bowl, add the lunch meat, green onions, vegetables, cheese, mayo, seasoning, and minced garlic. Mix well and set aside.
- Cut the french bread into slices and generously add the topping to each slice. Arrange the sandwiches on a parchment paper lined baking sheet and bake at 365°F for 10-12 minutes.
How to Make in Advance:
If you plan to make these hot sandwiches for a party, you can assemble the filling a few days before. Simply mix everything together and refrigerate. Once you are ready to bake, you can add the filling to the bread and bake!
Store & Reheat
- Storage. Store leftovers in an airtight container in the refrigerator for 3-5 days.
- Reheat. Warm up the sandwiches in the oven for a few minutes or until the tops are melty again.
More Recipes
If you enjoyed this hot sandwich recipe, be sure to try our other popular open-faced sandwich recipes; here are some of our favorites:
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Hot Sandwiches
Ingredients
- 1 lb your favorite lunch meat combination
- 2 small green onions, sliced
- 1 1/2 cups grated cheese, your favorite
- 3/4 cup mayo
- 1/4 sliced cherry tomatoes
- 1/2 avocado, cubed
- salt & pepper, to taste
- 1 garlic clove, minced
- French bread or any other bread
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 365°.
- Chop lunch meat. Slice green onions thin. Slice tomatoes. Cube avocado.
- Combine, lunch meat, cheese, tomatoes, avocado, green onion, mayo, garlic and freshly grated salt and pepper to taste. Mix well. (If you will not be toasting right away, do everything just don’t mix.)
- Spread mixture on bread slices. Bake 10-12 minutes, until bread is cripy.
