Chicken Tikka Sandwich
Dry char from the tandoor, a cool raita against the heat, mango chutney for sweetness: the curry-house favourite folded into a soft white bap.
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Chicken Tikka and Raita
Chicken tikka with cucumber raita (yogurt sauce).
Chicken Tikka and Mango Chutney Sandwich
Chicken tikka with mango chutney; popular combination.
Chicken Salad Sandwich
Cold roast chicken, buttered white bread and a snap of cucumber, cut into triangles and sold from Britain's chiller cabinets since the packaged-sandwich boom of 1980.
Chicken Paste
A pale, smooth spread of cooked chicken, scraped thin over butter on soft white bread. The Shippam's pot sold it in Britain from the mid-twentieth century.
Chicken Fillet Roll
A breaded chicken fillet fried hot behind an Irish deli counter, sliced into a buttered baguette and built to order with taco sauce, cheddar, and salad. The country's unofficial national roll.
Chicken Caesar Wrap
Chicken, lettuce, Parmesan, Caesar dressing in wrap.
Chicken and Watercress
Sliced chicken breast with watercress and mayonnaise; peppery green with mild meat.
Chicken and Tarragon
Poached chicken in tarragon mayonnaise, crusts off: the anise herb worked through the bind so every bite carries it, the cold English form of the French poulet a l'estragon.
Chicken and Lemon
Chicken mayonnaise with lemon zest and juice; bright, fresh flavor.
Cheshire Sandwich
Cheshire cheese (crumbly, salty, tangy) on bread; England's oldest named cheese.
Cheese Toastie
Toasted cheese sandwich made in sandwich toaster or under grill.
Cheese Spread
Processed cheese spread scraped from a tub onto soft white bread, cut in triangles, and packed for a school lunchbox or a tea plate in British kitchens.
Cheese Spread Sandwich
Dairylea Cheese Spread scraped from its tub onto soft white bread: the 1980s sandwich that followed the 1950 triangles, with Bacon and Onion tubs by the mid-1990s.
Cheese Savoury
Four ingredients worked into one pale-orange paste before assembly, the vegetarian default of the British meal deal. Move it north and carrot and salad cream come.
Cheese Sandwich
Three ingredients, plain bread, plain cheese, butter, and the discipline to add nothing else. The British household sandwich's umbrella and baseline.
Cheese Salad Sandwich
The cheese salad sandwich is a water-management problem with Cheddar in it: cheese against the British salad set on buttered bread, crisp and bright if the wet veg is handled, grey if it is not.
Cheese Ploughman's
The cheese ploughman's sandwich is the open pub plate folded into a bloomer: Cheddar slab, Branston, ham, salad and sometimes apple, sealed under butter to the edges.
Cheese and Tomato
Cheese and tomato is Britain's quietly indispensable lunch: a firm Cheddar slab against a drained ripe tomato, on soft white bread, made close enough to eating that nobody has to think about it.
Cheese and Salad Cream
Sharp Cheddar on soft white with salad cream, a vinegar-led dressing pointedly not mayonnaise. The tang carries it. The bottle, launched by Heinz in 1914, gives it its name.
Cheese and Pickle
Eat mature Cheddar alone across a whole sandwich and it defeats you, one long savoury note with nowhere to go. Cheese and pickle is the correction: the sweet-sharp pickle resets the mouth.
Cheese and Onion
Cheese and onion is sharp Cheddar given one aggressive partner: raw onion that cuts the fat with heat and crunch. The bite, the spread-versus-sliced split, and the crisp flavour that shares its name.
Cheese and Onion Crisp Sandwich
A green packet of cheese and onion crisps tipped flat into buttered white sliced bread and pressed once with the palm; the seasoning powder, invented by Tayto in Dublin in 1954, does the flavour work.