The cheese toastie was named the UK’s favourite sandwich – here’s how to make the ultimate one

What filling do need between the slices? (Image: Getty)

In a intently fought contest, on Nationwide Sandwich Day, the cheese toastie has been topped the nation’s favorite sandwich.

The countrywide examine, performed by on-line meals ordering app Foodhub, chewed over the nation’s sandwich habits and located that the cheese toastie is the brand new favorite, beating out final 12 months’s primary, the bacon sandwich.

Taking third prize was the easy cheese sandwich – proving we’re a nation of tacky sarnie lovers.

The outcome does imply some standard classics missed out on a prime slot. The well-known sausage, prawn mayo and egg mayo sandwiches all did not dent the nation’s prime three.

A grilled cheese toastie (Image: Getty Pictures)

And when it got here to complementing our beloved meal, one in 5 of these surveyed named mayo the nation’s favorite sandwich condiment.

This was adopted by butter (16%), ketchup (14%), scorching sauce (11%) and salad cream (10%).

The bacon butty has been knocked off the highest spot (Image: Getty Pictures)

However there's a generational divide on what bread we like our sandwiches on.

These aged 65 and over overwhelmingly state wholemeal is one of the best (18%), whereas these aged between 25 and 34 named sourdough (10%) primary.

Emma Stockman, a spokesperson for Foodhub, stated: ‘Britain is a nation of sandwich lovers.

‘Final 12 months there was no shock to see bacon named our favorite sandwich filling, nonetheless, we had been shocked to see cheese toastie has topped the charts this time.

‘Our examine additionally noticed hamburger (5%) end throughout the prime ten, reigniting the controversy of whether or not a burger might be classed as a sandwich or not.’

So how do you make the right cheese toastie?

Patrick Williams, Chef Patron of Kudu Collective gave us his signature cheese toastie recipe (AKA Braaibroodjie) and it’s a doosie.

• Cheddar cheese
• Two slices of bread
• Butter
• Salt

Butter your bread on either side, the staler the bread the higher.

Pop the cheddar cheese slices on the bread, then add a few tomato slices. Add some salt.

You possibly can tie the sandwich along with string to grill it in a pan, in case you don’t have a toastie maker.

Be sure to pan isn’t too scorching, in any other case your bread will burn. Cook dinner for 4 to 5 minutes ensuring the cheese is melted and the tomatoes are scorching.

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Then take it off the warmth, minimize off the string and plate it up.

In case you really feel like elevating your cheese toastie, Patrick’s final recipe consists of utilizing sourdough bread.

He provides thinly sliced tomato and purple onion in with the cheese, sprinkling coriander seeds and black pepper on the tomatoes earlier than he cooks it on the BBQ relatively than the grill.

To prime if off he stated to serve it along with your favorite chutney. Patrick at all times goes for South African Apricot blatjang (a chutney product of dried fruit and chilies cooked in vinegar).

UK's favorite sandwiches:

• CHEESE TOASTIE (8%)

• BACON (7%)

• CHEESE (6%)

• SAUSAGE (5%)

• PRAWN MAYO (5%)

• EGG MAYO (5%)

• HAMBURGER (5%)

• ROAST BEEF (4%)

• TURKEY (4%)

• TUNA (4%)