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.
Mallorca's spreadable cured pork sausage, brick-red with pimentón and too soft to slice, knifed cold onto crusty bread or warmed molten and threaded with island honey.
Sobrasada with honey bocadillo; the sweet-savory combination is classic.
Griddled cuttlefish slid hot into a crusty barra with raw garlic, parsley and lemon. Spain's beach-bar bocadillo, eaten in your swimsuit a few steps from the Mediterranean.
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.
Galician fresh pork loin, cubed and steeped in garlic, fried fast and tipped hot into a crusty barra. The raxería's plate, carried out the door one-handed.