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# Bocadillo de Hornazo
- URL: https://onesandwich.com/bocadillo-de-hornazo/
- Published: 2026-05-17T06:59:45.000Z
- Updated: 2026-05-26T10:52:22.000Z
- Description: Hornazo bocadillo; Salamanca's meat pie (chorizo, lomo, eggs in bread dough) sliced.
- Author: Andrew Lekashman
- Tags: Spain, Submarine Sandwiches, Guisos y Especialidades en Pan, #auto-imported

**🇪🇸 Spain** · Family: [Guisos y Especialidades en Pan](https://onesandwich.com/tag/bocadillo-de-guiso/) · Region: Salamanca · Heat: Baked · Bread: barra · Proteins: chorizo, pork, egg

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Ingredients

baguette · pork · chorizo · jamon · egg · lomo · salt

The *Bocadillo de Hornazo* is Salamanca's *hornazo*, a meat pie baked with *chorizo*, *lomo*, and egg inside a rich bread dough, sliced and eaten as a sandwich. The angle is that this is barely a *bocadillo* in the usual sense at all. Rather than filling being laid into a split *barra*, the meat is sealed inside the bread before baking and the loaf emerges as a single dense object that is then cut into portions. The bread and filling are cooked together, not assembled, and that is what sets it apart from every other sandwich in the Spanish catalog.

The build happens before the oven, not after. An enriched dough is rolled out, layered with cured *chorizo*, slices of *lomo*, the cured pork loin, and hard-cooked egg, then closed over with a top sheet of dough, sealed at the edges, and baked until the crust is firm and golden and the fillings have set into the crumb. It is cooled, then sliced like a terrine or a pie so each piece shows a cross-section of meat and egg banded through bread. Good execution means a dough rich enough to stay tender but baked through so it is not raw at the center, *chorizo* whose paprika fat has bled into the surrounding crumb, and clean layers that hold together when cut rather than crumbling apart. Sloppy execution is an underbaked doughy middle, dry meat that never gave its fat to the bread, or a loose fill that falls out the moment a slice is lifted.

The sandwich shifts mostly with what goes into the layers and how it is eaten. Some versions add hard-boiled egg generously, others lean almost entirely on *chorizo* and *lomo*; the dough may run leaner or richer by hand. It is typically served at room temperature, cut into thick slabs, and is strongly tied to Salamanca's spring outings rather than to bar counters. The everyday cured-sausage *bocadillos* built by simply slicing *chorizo* into a *barra* are a different tradition and deserve their own article rather than being grouped in here. What never changes is that the *hornazo* is baked as one piece, so the test is always whether the dough is cooked through and the meat has flavored it from the inside.

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- [Bocadillo de Filloas](https://onesandwich.com/bocadillo-de-filloas/)
- [Bocadillo de Judiones](https://onesandwich.com/bocadillo-de-judiones/)
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