The Ultimate Cuban Sandwiches At Home (Cubanos)
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Daniel and Rosa Figueredo from Sanguich show how to make authentic Cuban sandwiches at home, including baking Cuban bread, marinating and slow-roasting pork shoulder for lechon, making quick pickles, and pressing the sandwich.
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Answers: How do you make an authentic Cuban sandwich at home?
- cuban sandwich recipe
- making cuban bread
- roasting pork shoulder for lechon
- making homemade pickles
- slicing ham and lechon with a meat slicer
Ingredients
- 625 g bread flour
- 38 g sugar
- 10 g salt
- 21 g instant yeast
- 6 tablespoons lard
- 321 g water
- 10 oz Dijon mustard
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1 pint garlic
- 1 single farm Boston butt pork
- kosher salt
- 1 1/2 cups vinegar
- 1 teaspoon dill seeds
- 1 teaspoon coriander
- 1/2 teaspoon fennel
- 4 allspice
- 3 cloves
- 1 pinch red pepper flakes
- 1 jalapeño
- cucumbers
- ham
- honey
- Swiss cheese
What it concludes
- Cuban bread requires lard for its characteristic loft, airiness, and pliable texture.
- Bacon butt pork should be studded thoroughly with garlic and seasoned generously with kosher salt before marinating.
- Pickled cucumbers require dill seed rather than fresh dill to achieve a true dill pickle flavor.
- A meat slicer allows slicing ham and lechon as thinly and consistently as possible.
- Assembling a Cuban sandwich requires layering mustard, lechon, ham, pickles, and Swiss cheese in a specific order.
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