Rainbow Grilled Cheese Recipe: this sandwich is easy to make at home using regular food coloring, and so much fun for the rainbow lover.
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What's better than a regular grilled cheese? A rainbow grilled cheese! This rainbow grilled cheese recipe is easy and so fun and perfect for celebrating something special, or making an ordinary day into a celebration. We made ours for St. Patrick's Day, but a rainbow grilled cheese would also be great for a rainbow, unicorn, or art themed party, or for celebrating Pride.
Kid Friendly Easy Recipe
These are easy to make and a very kid friendly recipe. Children might need a little help with the actual grilling, and grating. But there's plenty of food coloring drops to add, stirring, piling of cheese, and buttering to keep kids busy with this easy rainbow grilled cheese recipe.
Ingredients:
Food Colouring
We created our colors of the rainbow using white cheese and food dye. If you're uncomfortable using food dyes, there are natural food colorings available at specialty shops. We used inexpensive liquid food coloring for ours. You could also use gel food coloring for this recipe.
We had the primary colors and mixed them to make the secondary colors. At first, it looks like the secondary colors will never come together, but just keep on stirring and they'll get all mixed together eventually. If you want even darker colors, just add more food coloring to your cheese for an even more colorful rainbow.
Cheese
The main cheese we used to create our rainbow sandwiches was mozzarella. It's a great cheese for this because it's white so it takes the dye easily, it's inexpensive, and it's a mild taste, which tends to appeal to kids. It's also a great melter, and has a really good cheese pull factor, meaning you'll get those lovely stringy bits when you pull the cheese apart.
We also added in a little Swiss cheese, for flavour, but also for an increased cheese pull factor.
You could also try white cheddar, havarti, or provolone, or any combination of these and the mozzarella and Swiss.
Bread
We like a good crusty white bread for this sandwich. We sliced ours quite thickly, which worked great with a thick layer of cheese. The thick cheese layers really add to the rainbow factor. With a good amount of cheese, you'll be able to see each colour well, and get a great cheese pull when you pull your sliced sandwich apart.
Instructions
1. Begin by grating your cheese. Place shredded cheese into 6 different bowls. Use all mozzarella cheese, or mix in a few some Swiss cheese, or any other cheese you prefer.
2. Dye the cheese by adding around drops of food colouring to a bowl and stirring the bowl of cheese until it's fully combined and the cheese is coloured. To create the orange cheese use drops of red, and yellow food colouring. To make the purple cheese, use red and blue food colouring.
3. Next, butter the outside of each of the bread slices.Lay out the bottom two pieces of bread, butter side down, and arrange the cheese on top of the unbuttered side. Create six equal lines of coloured cheese in a rainbow pattern, in rainbow order: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple. Divide the cheese evenly between the two cheese sandwiches. Then place the top slice of bread on each of the sandwiches, buttered sides out.
4. Place the sandwiches in a frying pan, and cook over medium heat. Flip the sandwiches when the first side is golden brown, and cook the other side to golden bread as well. You may want to put a lid on the frying pan, as an easy way to help the cheese melt well.
5. To serve your sandwich, make sure to cut the sandwich in half, in the opposite direction that your cheese is running so that when you pull it apart you have the rainbow effect with the melted cheese.
Substitutions
Gluten Free: If you want to make your rainbow grilled cheese gluten free, you can substitute gluten free bread for this recipe.
Storage
Your rainbow grilled cheese is best eaten as soon as it's made. If you making your rainbow grilled cheese for a party and want to dye your cheese ahead of time you can make it the day before and store it in a sealed container in the refrigerator, then cook the sandwiches right before serving.
Tips:
Use a lid on your frying pan to help the cheese melt. This traps the warm air, and with a thick layer of cheese like we used on this sandwich, really helps to make sure all the cheese is nice and melted.
Yes. Use liquid or gel food colouring with shredded cheese and stir to combine.
We used regular liquid food colouring from the grocery store. You can also use a small amount of gel food colouring. Also look for natural food colouring dyes at the health food store.
Use great melting cheeses like mozzarella and Swiss cheese. Make sure to add a generous amount of cheese to the sandwich. Ensure the cheese is fully melted by adding a lid to the pan as you grill it to hold in the heat.
Recipe
Rainbow Grilled Cheese Recipe
Ingredients
- 4 slices of bread
- 2 tablespoon butter room temperature
- 3 cups total of grated mozzarella cheese or a combination of mozzarella and swiss cheese
- 5 drops food colouring -red, yellow, green, blue
Instructions
- Begin by grating your cheese. Place ½ cup of shredded cheese into into 6 different bowls. Use all mozzarella cheese, or mix in some Swiss cheese, or any other cheese you prefer, for a total of ½ cup of cheese in each of the small bowls.
- Dye the cheese by adding around 10 drops of food colouring to each bowl and stirring the cheese until it's fully combined. To create the orange cheese use about 5 drops of red, and 5 drops of yellow food colouring. To make the purple cheese, use about 5 drops of red and 5 drops of blue food colouring.
- Next, butter the outside of each of the slices of bread.
- Lay out the bottom two pieces of bread, butter side down, and arrange the cheese on top of the unbuttered side. Crete six equal lines of colored cheese in a rainbow pattern, in rainbow order: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple. Divide the cheese evenly between the two cheese sandwiches. Then place the top slice of bread on each of the sandwiches, buttered sides out.
- Place the sandwiches in a frying pan, and cook over medium heat. Flip the sandwiches when the first side is golden brown, and cook the other side to golden bread as well. You may want to put a lid on the frying pan, as an easy way to help the cheese melt well.
- To serve your sandwich, make sure to cut the sandwich in half, in the opposite direction that your cheese is running so that when you pull it apart you have the rainbow effect with the melted cheese.
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This sandwich is perfect for rainbow and unicorn lovers. It's so yummy though the whole family will love this rainbow sandwich recipe. We love this fun food for a special occasion or as a fun ways to make any day special.
With this easy rainbow grilled cheese recipe, life really is a party!
More Rainbow Inspiration
You might also enjoy our Rainbow Pop Tart recipe here.
Also check out our Rainbow Rice Krispie Treats here.
Dannyelle Nicolle-Ramjist says
These are so delicious and so fun, and such a great recipe to make with kids.