Cuban Sandwich

[SheikYerbuti]

yummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

 

[twiley]

Let's hear the recipe!!

 

This is like when my wife says... you sure do love BJs and then walks away.

Edited May 2, 2008 by twiley

[Dutch Oven]

I had a pretty good Cuban sammich for lunch the other day at Granite City. Would like to try and replicate it at home.

[SheikYerbuti]

Let's hear the recipe!!

 

This is like when my wife says... you sure do love BJs and then walks away.

 

Cuban Sandwich a la Sheik

 

1 big ass pork shoulder

6 cloves garlic, pressed

3 packages Sazon seasoning

Pepper

Olive oil

Butter

Sandwich stacker sliced Bread and Butter pickles

White american cheese

Spicy brown mustard

Loaf of Italian Bread

 

1. Take a long and narrow knife and repeatedly stab deep holes in the pork shoulder. Go Norman Bates on the thing.

 

2. Mix the Sazon, garlic, pepper and olive oil (no salt. . .there's plenty in the Sazon) into a wet rub and rub it all over the pork shoulder. Try and get it into all the stab holes.

 

3. Place in a large dutch oven, elevated (I use a round wire rack), cover and place in a 275 degree oven for about 5 hours, until the center bone easily pulls out of the shoulder.

 

4. Carve all the lean pork meat away from the fat. . .you should get about 3-4 pounds of meat out of it.

 

5. Split the bread loaf and make a sandwich with 1 layer of each: mustard, cheese, shredded pork, pickles.

 

6. Butter both sides of the bread crust. Place in a medium heat cast iron skillet and place the dutch oven on top to smush it down. When browned, flip the sandwich and smush the other side.

 

7. Serve with hot sauce on the side.

 

Notes: Of course, if you want to go the fast route just go to the deli counter and get some quality ham and skip straight to step 5. But my way I've got delicious roasted pork leftovers that can be made into burritos, quesedillas, tacos, etc. . .

[Cameltosis]

I like cuban sammiches. But I think the ones I have enjoyed had both pork shoulder or roast and ham. I like the looks of your recipe too, but 2 kinds of pig??? I'm just sayin...

[SheikYerbuti]

I like cuban sammiches. But I think the ones I have enjoyed had both pork shoulder or roast and ham. I like the looks of your recipe too, but 2 kinds of pig??? I'm just sayin...

 

Step 5.5 - Add bacon, scrapple, pigs feet and a pork chop before toasting.

[Cameltosis]

Step 5.5 - Add bacon, scrapple, pigs feet and a pork chop before toasting.

 

two please.

[loaf]

the one I had had pork, ham, cheese, banana peppers, buttered bun, brown mustard and seasonings

[Rovers]

A fast and easy cuban sammich:

 

Delicatessen bought roast pork cold cuts (this is the white pork)

Portugese hero roll

Pepper Jack cheese (preferably as hot and spicy as available)

Thinly sliced pickle, you fave kind is fine... I like the kosher half sours.

Any good pink ham, like Virginia or Black Forrest.

Some peppers are a must... pepperoncini for the faint hearted... but any pickled variety of your liking will do.

The key thing is the pickles.... heated and smothered in cheese.

 

Pile it on the bread in any order. If you can't figure out how best to layer it, you should not be trusted to turn a burner on. Then crush the thing. Put a frying pan on top, and sit on the thing. Make it as flat as possible. Then, fry in butter like a grilled cheese sammich, but keep some weight on it while it cooks.... like a heavy frying pan, and fry until the bread is browned and the cheese melted.

 

Maybe one of the best sandwiches of all time.... right up there with pastrami, a truely great Philly cheese steak or a REAL N.O. po-boy. Even in N.O., there are many poor wanna-bees. Same for the aforementioned types.