Baked ham and cheese sliders: Hot ham and cheese sliders with a surprisingly delicious poppy seed glaze baked into each sandwich.
This shouldn’t be a surprise to you, but as a kid, I wouldn’t touch a ham and cheese sandwich with a ten foot pole.
Nope, no way. Not ever.
And I really can’t pinpoint the moment when I changed my mind, though it was well before I made these baked ham and cheese sliders for the first time last winter.
It may have happened when I made these croque monsieur sandwiches. Not a bad way to change your mind about something, right?
But it was because ham and cheese has become one of my favorite sandwich choices as an adult that I was dying to make these sliders for so long.
And man. Man oh man!
These sliders are definite rivals to those French sandwiches!
The best thing yet though, is that they are no harder to make than a regular ham and cheese except that they’re baked with this incredible sauce poured over them.
You’ll mix up a quick butter-mustard-Worcestershire sauce – sounds weird, I know, but stick with me here – then pour it over the prepared sliders, sprinkle on a few poppy seeds, and bake ’em up.
The sliders come out of the oven in the form of a toasty, amped up version of the old standby sandwich. It’s after the melted butter sinks into the bread that the magic happens!
When I served these baked ham and cheese sliders for the first time at our housewarming party last December, I could barely get them out of the oven before people were grabbing them right off the baking sheet!
So, the only thing I could suggest about these sliders is to make more than you think you’ll need for your next party. You won’t need to worry about having leftovers!
Baked Ham and Cheese Sliders
- Prep Time: 10
- Cook Time: 15-18min
- Yield: 24 sliders
Notes
Try to find King’s Hawaiian dinner or slider rolls for these sliders. I’ve used Martin’s potato rolls (dinner roll size) the handful of times I have made them and they are always great. Alternatively, regular dinner rolls or slider buns will work perfectly too.
Ingredients
24 slider or dinner rolls (see note above)
24 slices deli-sliced honey or Virginia ham
24 small slices (about ½ lb) Swiss cheese
Mayonnaise
½ cup (8 tbsp) unsalted butter, melted
1 ½ tbsp yellow mustard
1 tbsp finely minced onion (or 2 tsp dried minced onion)
½ tsp Worcestershire sauce
Poppy seeds for sprinkling
Instructions
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01
Preheat oven to 375° F. On two large baking sheets, split the buns in half horizontally. Spread a little mayonnaise on the tops and bottoms of all of the buns. Top each bottom half of the buns with a folded up piece of ham and piece of Swiss. Close up all of the sliders with the top halves.
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02
Whisk the melted butter, mustard, onion, and Worcestershire sauce together. Pour the butter mixture over the sliders. Sprinkle the tops of the buns with some poppy seeds. Cover the baking sheets with aluminum foil and bake for 10 minutes; remove the foil and bake for another 2-3 minutes, until the cheese is melted and the tops are golden brown. Serve hot.
adapted from The Girl Who Ate Everything via Annie’s Eats
I’m still kind of iffy on ham sandwiches, but I’ve been wanting to try these forever, hoping they’ll change my mind 🙂 The sauce sounds so incredibly good!
These sliders are stellar, Tracey. I’m sure you’ll love them!
In the oven right now! I didn’t use poppy seeds because I don’t like them but otherwise these smell great!