Cuban Sandwich
Traditional dish with cuban bread, regular prepared mustard, pickles.
- prep 9 min
- cook 21 min
- total 30 min
- serves 4
- advanced
- Caribbean
Ingredients
- 1 loaf cuban bread
- 1 ounce regular prepared mustard
- 4 dill pickles
- 5 slices ham
- 2 slices roast pork
- 2 slices genoa salami
- 1 slice imported swiss cheese
- 1 ounce butter
- 2 ham croquetas
Steps
- Cut the Cuban bread to desired size—a common size is 7 inches.
- Slice open the bread down the middle.
- On the topside of the bread, spread the mustard evenly across.
- Place 4 pickles on top of the mustard.
- Place 1 slice of Swiss cheese on top of the pickles.
- Slice the ham to desired thickness.
- The recommended size is 1 ½ ounces per slice, the thinner the better.
- Fold each slice of ham in half.
- Place evenly on the bottom of the bread.
- On top of the ham, place slices of roast pork and salami.
- Join both halves of the sandwich.
- Transfer the sandwich to a sandwich grill if you have one, or a waffle iron if not.
- Close the grill, smashing the sandwich.
- Leave the sandwich in the grill until the top of the bread turns to a golden brown and the top is crisp.
- Approximate time is 4 to 6 minutes.
- After the sandwich is crispy and the cheese has melted, remove the sandwich carefully.
- Slice it diagonally, from corner to corner.
Adapted from “Cuban sandwich”, Wikibooks Cookbook, CC BY-SA 4.0. This adaptation is shared under the same licence.