Bocadillo de Tortilla Española
Classic Spanish omelette sandwich; eggs, potatoes, salt, cooked slowly in olive oil until set but still slightly custardy inside (jugosa)...
Classic Spanish omelette sandwich; eggs, potatoes, salt, cooked slowly in olive oil until set but still slightly custardy inside (jugosa)...
Potato omelette bocadillo; alternative name emphasizing the potatoes.
Spanish omelette with roasted peppers (pimientos) in bocadillo.
Spanish omelette with chorizo pieces added.
Spanish omelette with onion bocadillo; caramelized onion adds sweetness.
Young lamb (ternasco) bocadillo; Aragón's prized young lamb, grilled.
Sirloin bocadillo; beef tenderloin, often with peppers or cheese.
Sirloin with goat cheese bocadillo.
A soft, paprika-red cured pork sausage of Mallorca that you spread on bread with a knife. Warmed, its fat melts into the crumb; often finished with honey. The bocadillo de sobrasada.
Sobrasada with honey bocadillo; the sweet-savory combination is classic.
Cuttlefish seared hard on a beach-bar plancha, dressed in raw garlic and parsley, and slid into a crusty barra. The bocadillo de sepia is the Spanish coast's answer to fried squid.
A hidden, heavily marbled muscle, two per pig, freed by feel from under the back fat. Grilled fast on a hot plancha and laid in a crusty barra: acorn-fed Iberian pork at its richest.
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.
Raxo bocadillo; marinated pork pieces (similar to zorza but cooked) in bread.