Bocadillo de Farinato
Farinato is a sausage made mostly of breadcrumbs and lard, not meat, perfumed with anise. It has to be fried to exist, and a fried egg is the glue that keeps the crumbly filling inside the roll.
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Farinato is a sausage made mostly of breadcrumbs and lard, not meat, perfumed with anise. It has to be fried to exist, and a fried egg is the glue that keeps the crumbly filling inside the roll.
The bocadillo de fabada is the Asturian bean stew lifted out of its broth: the compango of chorizo, morcilla, lacón and tocino sliced into a barra, the fabes crushed to a paste that binds the loaf.
Asparagus bocadillo; white asparagus from Navarra, often with mayonnaise.
Esgarraet is the Valencian preparation of salt cod and roasted red pepper, torn by hand and marinated cold. Spooned into a crusty barra, it makes one of the cleaner fish bocadillos in Spain.
Escalivada, aubergine and peppers cooked in the embers until smoky, packed cold into a crusty roll with anchovy. A vegetable bocadillo whose name is its recipe.
Empanada in bread; Galician empanada (large filled pie with tuna, pork, or sardines) served in bread—carb on carb.
The word compango means, in old Latin, the thing that goes with bread. The bocadillo de compango sends it home: the smoked chorizo, morcilla and lacón of an Asturian fabada loaded into a barra.
The bocadillo de cochinillo packs Segovia's roast suckling pig into a barra: meat so soft it is carved with a plate edge, skin rendered to brittle crackling that has to still shatter at the bite.
Mussel (clòtxina) bocadillo; local mussels.
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.