Bocadillo de Churrasco
Grilled pork ribs bocadillo; Galician churrasco-style.
Grilled pork ribs bocadillo; Galician churrasco-style.
Chorizo bocadillo; Spanish cured pork sausage seasoned with pimentón (smoked paprika) and garlic. Can be sliced (curado) or grilled/fried...
Fresh chorizo coins shallow-fried until they pool deep orange grease, the bread dredged through it. The bocadillo de chorizo frito is home-kitchen merienda food about cooked fat and soaked bread.
Teror chorizo bocadillo; soft, spreadable chorizo from Gran Canaria.
Cured chorizo bocadillo; firm, sliced cured sausage with intense paprika flavor.
The bocadillo de chorizo a la plancha is fresh chorizo griddled skin-off until its pimenton-orange fat bleeds onto the steel and soaks back into the barra: the eastern-Spain bar almuerzo.
Chistorra bocadillo; thin, fresh chorizo-style sausage from Basque Country/Navarra, typically grilled.
A thin pork coil heavy with paprika fat, griddled until it crackles and folded into a barra. The chistorra was made slim on purpose so it cured in days, the first sausage off the Navarrese pig.
Whole baby squid, hot off the plancha with garlic and parsley, packed into a crusty barra: the Basque coast's summer sandwich, built on hook-caught squid small enough to go in entire, crowns and all.
In Cádiz the chicharrón is charcuterie: pork belly cooked slow in lard, pressed into a block, shaved into slices that melt at hand heat. Coarse salt, a hard lemon squeeze, a crusty barra.
Chanfaina bocadillo; lamb offal stew in bread.
Champiñones al ajillo, button mushrooms sautéed hard with garlic until the water cooks off and they turn meaty, forked hot into a crusty barra. A rare bocadillo that leans on a vegetable, eating rich.
Cecina de León is beef cured like the great hams: salted, oak-smoked, and hung in mountain air for at least seven months, then shaved thin into a crusty barra under a thread of olive oil.
Pork cheek (carrillera) bocadillo; slow-cooked, tender.
Carne fiesta bocadillo; marinated pork chunks.
At a counter near Plaza Mayor the rings come out of the oil pale gold and go straight into a split barra with a squeeze of lemon. Madrid handles its signature squid as a fry-shop product, not seafood.
Fried calamari with mayonnaise bocadillo.
Fried calamari with lemon squeeze bocadillo.
Fried calamari with alioli (garlic mayonnaise) bocadillo.
Roman-style fried calamari bocadillo; squid in light batter, fried crispy.
Courgette brings no flavour and no fat, so its bocadillo is all addition: salted to empty its water, cooked hard for colour, and leaned on oil and a salty partner. A roll built on a near-blank.
Cachopo bocadillo; Asturian specialty of two beef or veal fillets stuffed with ham and cheese, breaded and fried. Large and rich.
Boiled potatoes bocadillo; simple, traditional.
Butifarra bocadillo; Catalan fresh pork sausage, grilled, often with white beans (mongetes).