Chef John's Cuban Sandwich recipe

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Ingredients

¼ cup mayonnaise
¼ cup mustard
1 pinch cayenne pepper
1 (8 ounce) loaf Cuban bread
8 slices Swiss cheese
6 thin slices smoked fully-cooked ham
1 ½ cups cooked pulled pork, heated
1 large dill pickle, sliced thinly lengthwise
2 tablespoons butter, or as needed

Nutrition Info

1473.1 calories
carbohydrate: 85.4 g
cholesterol: 287.1 mg
fat: 85.2 g
fiber: 5.3 g
protein: 88.2 g
saturatedFat: 37.3 g
servingSize: -
sodium: 4076.6 mg
sugar: 4.2 g
transFat: : -
unsaturatedFat: : -

Directions

  1. Mix mayonnaise, mustard, and cayenne together in a bowl to make the sauce.

  2. Trim off ends of bread. Cut loaf in half and evenly split bread to make tops and bottoms of 2 sandwiches. Spread each half on both sides generously with the mayo/mustard sauce.

  3. Divide sandwich ingredients between the two bottom halves in this order: 2 slices Swiss cheese, 3 slices ham, hot cooked pork, pickle slices, and 2 more slices of Swiss cheese. Place tops on sandwiches.

  4. Melt butter in a heavy skillet over medium heat. Place sandwiches in skillet and press down with a heavy weight (such as another skillet or foil-wrapped bricks). Toast sandwiches until bread is crisp and filling is heated through, 3 or 4 minutes per side.

Recipe Yield

2 large sandwiches

Recipe Note

Here's how I build a Cuban, or Cubano, sandwich. I like to use pulled pork. Carnitas would work too. These ingredients and amounts are open to your own personal preferences, but here's the general idea.

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