Mozzarella Carrozza with Bacon & Tomato

A foggy winter Saturday morning calls for heart warming comfort food. Recently I lost control over the desire of cheese purchase creating a reservoir of cheese in the fridge. What's better than to put the two together to create a heart warming cheesy easy lunch? Hence the mozzarella carrozza with bacon and tomato.

Ingredients:-
4 slices white bread
4 slices of pre-cut mozzarella cheese or fist-sized ball mozzarella, cut into approximately ¼-inch (0.6cm) slices, then strips (season with a pinch of salt & pepper)
4 strips of bacon slices
1 medium tomato120ml (½ cup) milk
2 heaping tablespoons all-purpose flour
1 egg
salt and freshly ground black pepper
oil for frying (I used what's been 'released' from the bacon)


1. Pan fried bacon until golden brown and crispy. Retain oil for later use. 
2. Cut tomato into thin slices, set aside.
3. Make sandwiches out of the bread and mozzarella, I layered it by 'bread-mozzarella-tomato-bacon-mozzarella-bread' sequence.
4. Leave a little margin around the edges unfilled with cheese, and press the edges together with fingers to help seal.
5. Pour the milk into a shallow plate, the flour into another, and beat the egg with salt and pepper in another.
6. Warm the bacon fat in the frying pan over medium heat. Dunk the sandwiches briefly, 1 by 1, in the milk, then dredge in the flour, then dip in the beaten egg. 
7. Fry in hot oil on each side until crisp and golden and remove to serving plate. Cut in half and serve.