Chicken Tikka Sandwich
Char-cooked, yogurt-marinated chicken tikka laid dry into soft bread with a cooling raita and a smear of mango chutney. The British-Indian curry house carried into a lunchtime sandwich.
Char-cooked, yogurt-marinated chicken tikka laid dry into soft bread with a cooling raita and a smear of mango chutney. The British-Indian curry house carried into a lunchtime sandwich.
Chicken tikka with cucumber raita (yogurt sauce).
Chicken tikka with mango chutney; popular combination.
Chicken with salad vegetables.
Breaded chicken fillet in a baguette with butter and various fillings; iconic Irish deli item.
Chicken, lettuce, Parmesan, Caesar dressing in wrap.
Sliced chicken breast with watercress and mayonnaise; peppery green with mild meat.
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 mayonnaise with lemon zest and juice; bright, fresh flavor.
Cheshire cheese (crumbly, salty, tangy) on bread; England's oldest named cheese.
Toasted cheese sandwich made in sandwich toaster or under grill.
Processed cheese spread on bread.
Processed cheese spread (Dairylea or similar) on bread; children's lunch.
Grated mature Cheddar, white onion, mayonnaise or salad cream, and a drop of Worcestershire sauce worked into one pale-orange paste before the bread, then sliced into triangles for the carton.
Three ingredients, plain bread, plain cheese, butter, and the discipline to add nothing else. The British household sandwich's umbrella and baseline.
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.
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 is a sandwich built to beat a clock: the tomato bleeds, so the cheese goes in as a sliced wall, the tomato is salted and drained, and it is eaten before the water wins.
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.
Mature Cheddar with Branston pickle (sweet-tangy vegetable pickle) on bread; iconic British combination.
Cheddar with raw or pickled onion on bread.
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.