There are different recipes for Cuban sandwiches. Here's how I build my Cuban, or Cubano. I like to use pulled pork. Carnitas would work too. These ingredients and amounts are open to your own personal preferences, but here's a general idea.
Ingredients
- mayonnaise: 0.25 cup
- mustard: 0.25 cup
- pinch cayenne pepper: 1 piece
- loaf Cuban bread: 1 piece (8 ounce)
- slices Swiss cheese: 8 piece
- thin slices smoked fully-cooked ham: 6 piece
- ½ cups cooked pulled pork: 1 piece (heated)
- dill pickle, sliced thinly lengthwise: 1 piece
- butter: 2 Tbsp (or as needed)
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Stages of cooking
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Gather all ingredients. Dotdash Meredith Food Studios
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Mix mayonnaise, mustard, and cayenne together in a bowl to make sauce. Dotdash Meredith Food Studios
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Trim off ends of bread. Cut loaf in half and evenly split bread to make tops and bottoms of two sandwiches. Dotdash Meredith Food Studios
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Spread each half on both sides generously with mayo-mustard sauce. Dotdash Meredith Food Studios
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Divide sandwich ingredients between the two bottom halves in this order: 2 slices Swiss cheese, 3 slices ham, hot cooked pork, pickle slices, and 2 more slices Swiss cheese. Place tops on sandwiches. DOTDASH MEREDITH FOOD STUDIOS
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Melt butter in a heavy skillet over medium heat. Place sandwiches in the skillet and press down with a heavy weight, such as another skillet or foil-wrapped bricks. Toast sandwiches until bread is crisp and filling is heated through, 3 or 4 minutes per side. Dotdash Meredith Food Studios
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Serve hot and enjoy! Chef John
