Cubanos

Cubanos - The healthiest sandwich you will ever eat, I promise. It’s that time of the month where food is scarce and pockets are empty, that’s right it’s the week before pay day. So I had a rummage through the cupboards and found some chorizo and bread and we had some left over spatchcocked chicken from the weekend. I don’t know if I was proud of my left over chicken creation, but what I do know is that it hit the spot in a way only a filthy sandwich could. 

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  What you need for two sandwiches:

  
  

  • 1/3 of a leftover chicken (or more if you’re hangry)
  • Chorizo 50 g
  • Mushrooms (as many as you need to bulk out this butty)
  • Butter
  • 50 g of a good melting cheese – I used manchego 
  • A couple of garlic cloves
  • Some decent bread        
  • Parsley

  
  

  How to make it:

  
  

  1. Chop up the chorizo sausage and get that frying in a dry pan on a medium high heat. While that’s on the go chop up the mushrooms and garlic. 
  2. Throw in the mushrooms once the chorizo has started to crisp up. You shouldn’t need to add any oil as the chorizo should have released enough to fry the mushrooms. When the mushrooms begin to go a nice brown throw in the garlic and fry that off for another 2-3 minutes. Finally add to the pan the shredded left over chicken and coarsely chopped parsley. Toss everything together and take the pan off the heat. Don’t season your filling too much as the cheese is pretty salty and so is the chorizo, but get some black pepper in there.
  3. Slice some good bread and butter one side of it. In a dry frying pan add the bread butter side down; over a medium-high heat you should get a nice golden colour on the bread. Repeat for all 4 slices.
  4. Once all the bread is fried on one side butter the plain side of the bread. To the already crusty fried side add your cheese and to this add your filling and then top with more cheese. Grab another slice of bread and place this fried side down leaving the new buttered side facing up. Repeat to build your second sandwich. Get the dry pan back on the heat and place a sandwich butter side down once again. Squash the sandwich a bit with a spatula; you want that cheese to melt and glue everything together. Once the bottom of the Cubano is golden flip it over and make that top layer of cheese melt and the bread go golden - then you’re done. While you’re making the next one put your Cubano in a warm oven ~100 ^oC ensuring the cheese says molten.
     
     -if you want a purely filth sandwich get some cheese slices in there, as long as the chicken is free range and the pork is of good quality there is no shame!