Bocadillo de Sardinas
Sardine bocadillo; canned or fresh grilled sardines.
Sardine bocadillo; canned or fresh grilled sardines.
A flat fried cutlet, cheese sealed inside two slices of ham under a hard breadcrumb shell, slid hot into a crusty barra. Named for Saint James for reasons nobody has ever pinned down.
Seafood salad bocadillo; mixed seafood with vinaigrette.
Cold-smoked salmon, cured then smoked below the cooking line so it stays velvety and near-raw, over cream cheese in a soft roll. The modern café bocadillo, built on a fish Spain now mostly imports.
Salchichón bocadillo; cured pork sausage similar to salami, flavored with black pepper (not paprika like chorizo).
A bocadillo built on pure thrift: yesterday's Canarian puchero, too much boiled meat to finish, pulled into rags and refried with paprika and chickpeas, then spooned into a crusty roll.
Scrambled egg bocadillo; eggs scrambled with various additions.
Scrambled eggs with wild mushrooms bocadillo.
Scrambled eggs with crumbled blood sausage bocadillo.
Scrambled eggs with shrimp bocadillo.
Scrambled eggs with asparagus bocadillo.
Galician fresh pork loin, cubed and steeped in garlic, fried fast and tipped hot into a crusty barra. The raxería's plate, carried out the door one-handed.
Cheese bocadillo; various Spanish cheeses—manchego most common.
Torta del Casar bocadillo; soft, creamy sheep's cheese from Extremadura with slightly bitter, intense flavor.
Tetilla cheese bocadillo; soft, creamy Galician cow's milk cheese, mild and buttery.
Manchego cheese bocadillo; sheep's milk cheese from La Mancha, firm, nutty, slightly tangy. Aged versions (curado, viejo) have more inten...
Aged manchego bocadillo; firmer, more intense flavor.
Majorero cheese bocadillo; goat cheese from Fuerteventura.
Mahón cheese bocadillo; cow's milk cheese from Menorca, buttery when young, sharp when aged.
Idiazábal cheese bocadillo; smoked sheep's milk cheese from Basque Country, firm with distinctive smoky flavor.
Fresh cheese bocadillo; mild, soft fresh cheese.
Goat cheese bocadillo; various Spanish goat cheeses.
Cheese with quince paste bocadillo; manchego paired with dulce de membrillo (quince paste)—sweet and savory combination.
A plain barra split around Cabrales, Spain's raw-milk blue traditionally left uninoculated, aged in wild-mold limestone caves and cut only by a splash of Asturian cider.