This makes enough mince for 8 sandwiches, just use half and freeze half, the mince works really well on a baked potato for an easy midweek meal.  The mince can be made a couple of days beforehand, the flavour improves with time.

Although we have given amounts, this is a toastie and so really should be down to your tastes, if you like a lot of cheese, just add more. 

Ingredients 
Vegetable oil
1 large onion, finely chopped
3 garlic cloves, minced or finely chopped
750g beef mince
2 tbsp medium Raja curry powder
2 tsp ground turmeric
2 dried birds eye chillies
½ ground black pepper
1 tsp salt and 1 tsp steers or 2 tsp of salt
2 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
2 tsp vinegar, I use South African brown vinegar
150ml beef stock
4 tbsp Mrs Balls chutney
1 tbsp apricot jam
100g frozen peas

8 slices of white bread
Butter
200g grated cheese, we like a mix of emmental, gouda and cheddar

Method
Put a pan of oil on a medium heat and then start to cook the mince.  Put 1 tbsp of oil in to a large pan or wok and cook the onions on a medium heat for 3-5 minutes until translucent and soft.  Add the garlic and cook for another 2 minutes.  Add the mince and cook until the juices come out of the meat and fully evaporates.  Add 1 tbsp oil and mix, add the curry powder, turmeric chillies, black pepper, salt and steer if using and mix, cook for 1 minute.  Add the Worcestershire sauce, vinegar, beef stock, chutney and jam, mix and cook for 10 minutes. 

Remove the birds eye chillies from the mix and discard.  Add the peas, reduce the heat to low and cook for 5 minutes.

Preheat the oven to 200c.

Butter the bread and on the bottom, spread over roughly 3 heaped spoonfuls of the curried mince.  Top with a handful or two of the cheese mix and put on the lid.  Butter the top of the lid.

Get your pan on and add a tsp of oil.  Depending on the size of your pan, you hopefully can make 2 at a time.  Heat the pan on medium and put your sandwiches down, butter down. Carefully butter the top of the sandwiches.

When the bottom of the sandwiches are golden, turn them over.  When the bottom is golden, remove them, turn off the oven and put the cooked sandwiches into the oven and repeat with the next two.

Cut in half and eat while the cheese is melty and the sandwich hot.