Mexico - One Sandwich - The Joy of Sandwiches (Page 2)

Torta de Rajas con Crema

Mexican crema reduced down with charred poblano strips and ladled into a bean-lined telera; cream is the binder, cheese is a small white scatter on top.

Torta de Queso

The cheese-only Mexican torta: a split telera with beans and crema around melted quesillo or queso manchego, the version that asks every other component to pull weight in the absence of meat.

Torta de Queso con Rajas

A cheese torta with the addition of rajas poblanas, charred and peeled Poblano chile strips, often cooked with onion and a little crema, folded into shredded quesillo on a pressed telera.

Torta de Pollo

The Mexican chicken torta on a telera or bolillo: a thigh seared on the plancha, thicker beans and crema to repay the fat debt a leaner bird brings, and a pickled jalapeño to wake it all up.

Torta de Pollo Desmenuzado

Mexico City home-lunchbox torta: cold poached chicken pulled fine, bound with mayonnaise and lime, on a split telera with avocado and pickled jalapeño.

Torta de Pollo Asado

Chicken grilled in chunks with achiote and citrus, the charred crust kept loud on a split telera lined with beans and crema. Grilled, not shredded; the grill decides it.

Torta de Pierna

Pork leg roasted until it slumps off the bone, carved thin and moistened with its own pan juices on a bean-lined telera. The substantial, unflashy order regulars reach for.

Torta de Pescado

The torta de pescado is a coastal fish sandwich: a battered or grilled white fillet in a split telera, with beans, avocado, pickled jalapeño, and a hard squeeze of lime.

Torta de Pastor

The torta de pastor moves the taquería's most famous meat into bread: spit-shaved adobo pork on a telera, anchored by refried beans, cooled by avocado, a full meal in one hand.

Torta de Nopales

The torta de nopales: grilled prickly-pear cactus pads, seared until the slime cooks off, packed into a telera with beans, cheese, rajas, and crema. Vegetarian, green, faintly sour.

Torta de Mole

This is the one torta that exists because there was too much of something else: festival mole, days-long and made by the cauldron, packed the next morning into a telera it threatens to dissolve.

Torta de Milanesa

Breaded, fried beef or pork cutlet (milanesa) torta; thin pounded meat, breaded and fried crispy, with all the fixings. One of the most p...

Torta de Milanesa de Res

Beef milanesa torta; breaded thin-pounded beef cutlet.

Torta de Milanesa de Pollo

Chicken milanesa torta; breaded chicken breast cutlet.

Torta de Milanesa de Cerdo

Pork milanesa torta; breaded pork cutlet.

Torta de Migas

Migas (scrambled eggs with fried tortilla strips) in torta.

Torta de Longaniza

Longaniza sausage torta; longer, thinner Mexican sausage, varies by region—Oaxacan, Valladolid, Toluca styles.

Torta de la Barda

Tampico's late-night loaded torta, named for the dockside customs wall it was sold against: a telera stacked with several warm meats, pulled into one bite by chipotle over a thick bean seal.