Bocadillo Vegetal con Atún
Vegetable bocadillo with tuna.
Vegetable bocadillo with tuna.
Sardine bocadillo; canned or fresh grilled sardines.
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.
Galicia eats octopus off a wooden plate with a toothpick; the bocadillo de pulpo gives that plate a handle. Boiled tentacle, coarse salt, pimentón, and a heavy pour of oil, packed into a crusty barra.
Galician-style octopus bocadillo; tender octopus with pimentón, coarse salt, olive oil.
Mussel bocadillo; steamed or escabeche mussels.
Marinera in bread; Russian salad (ensaladilla rusa) on a round fried bread base—Murcian tapa, sometimes in bocadillo.
Esgarraet bocadillo; shredded salt cod with roasted red peppers, olive oil.
Mussel (clòtxina) bocadillo; local mussels.
The bocadillo de boquerones is built on the vinegar-cured anchovy, the same fish as the salted anchoa but set white and firm by acid, not salt: pale fillets in garlic oil on a crusty barra.
The bocadillo de bacalao is the back half of a multi-day ritual: salt cod soaked in changed water until it swells back firm and milky, then oil-poached, not battered, with roasted pepper in a barra.
Battered fried salt cod bocadillo.
The fish was cooked at the cannery long before the bread was baked. Spain's pantry bocadillo tips oil-packed atún from the lata into a split barra, with roasted pepper, tomato, or olives alongside.
Tuna with tomato bocadillo.
Tuna with peppers (often piquillo) bocadillo.
Three mahogany strips of anchovy cured eighteen months in salt, laid in an oiled roll over cold butter. The bocadillo de anchoas is a sandwich built to stay out of one extraordinary ingredient's way.
All i pebre (eel stew with garlic and paprika) components in bocadillo.