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# Bocadillo de Chorizo Curado
- URL: https://onesandwich.com/bocadillo-de-chorizo-curado/
- Published: 2026-05-17T06:59:38.000Z
- Updated: 2026-05-26T10:52:10.000Z
- Description: Cured chorizo bocadillo; firm, sliced cured sausage with intense paprika flavor.
- Author: Andrew Lekashman
- Tags: Spain, Submarine Sandwiches, Bocadillo de Embutido, #auto-imported

**🇪🇸 Spain** · Family: [Bocadillo de Embutido](https://onesandwich.com/tag/bocadillo-de-embutido/) · Bread: barra · Proteins: pork

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Ingredients

baguette · pork · chorizo · paprika · garlic · salt

The *Bocadillo de Chorizo Curado* is the cold, sliced version: firm cured sausage with an intense *pimentón* flavor, cut thin and laid into bread with no heat at all. The character comes entirely from the cure. A properly aged *chorizo curado* is dense, deep red, faintly tacky at the slice, and concentrated in paprika and garlic, so the sandwich is an exercise in slicing and restraint rather than cooking. The bread is a crusty white *barra*, split lengthwise and left plain.

The build is simple and lives or dies on the knife. The cured stick is sliced thin, ideally on a slight bias to widen each coin, and the slices are shingled in an even overlapping layer down the length of the *barra* so every bite carries sausage. The bread is closed under light pressure; nothing is toasted, nothing is rendered. Good execution means slices thin enough to yield against the teeth rather than fight them, a generous even layer, and a *barra* with enough crust to give the soft cure something to push against. Sloppy execution cuts the slices thick so they turn chewy and rubbery, or scatters too few across too much bread so the sandwich reads as plain crumb with an occasional hit of paprika.

This is the version that needs no equipment and travels best: it keeps for hours, packs flat, and is the standard fold-into-bread snack carried on the road or up a hill. Its siblings move in the opposite direction, toward heat, and each is genuinely a different sandwich: the griddled *a la plancha* version and the pan-fried *frito* version both cook a soft fresh *chorizo* and belong to their own articles rather than being grouped here. The wider family of cured-sausage *bocadillos*, which this one anchors, is a related study in its own right.

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## More from this family

Other [Bocadillo de Embutido](https://onesandwich.com/tag/bocadillo-de-embutido/) sandwiches in Spain:

- [Bocadillo de Blanquet](https://onesandwich.com/bocadillo-de-blanquet/)
- [Bocadillo de Butifarra con Mongetes](https://onesandwich.com/bocadillo-de-butifarra-con-mongetes/)
- [Bocadillo de Butifarra](https://onesandwich.com/bocadillo-de-butifarra/)
- [Bocadillo de Chistorra Navarra](https://onesandwich.com/bocadillo-de-chistorra-navarra/)
- [Bocadillo de Chistorra](https://onesandwich.com/bocadillo-de-chistorra/)
- [Bocadillo de Chorizo a la Plancha](https://onesandwich.com/bocadillo-de-chorizo-a-la-plancha/)
- [Bocadillo de Chorizo de Teror](https://onesandwich.com/bocadillo-de-chorizo-de-teror/)
- [Bocadillo de Chorizo Frito](https://onesandwich.com/bocadillo-de-chorizo-frito/)

[See all Bocadillo de Embutido sandwiches →](https://onesandwich.com/tag/bocadillo-de-embutido/)