List of sandwiches

This is a list of notable sandwiches:

Name Image Origin Description
Al pastor Mexico Similar to shawarma. Served in a pita bread.[1]
Bacon United Kingdom Often served with ketchup or a brown sauce.
Bacon, egg and cheese America A breakfast sandwich. Eggs usually fried or scrambled.
Baked bean Tinned baked beans on white or brown bread.
Bánh mì Vietnamese Served on a small baguette. Filling usually meat, but can contain a wide range of foods, including fish, cheese, or eggs.
Barros Jarpa Chile Ham and cheese (usually mantecoso, which is farmer-like type of cheese).
Barros Luco Chile Beef (usually thin cut steak) and cheese.
Bauru Brazil Melted cheese,roast beef, tomato and pickled cucumber in a hollwed-out French bun.
Beef on weck America Roast beef on a caraway Kaiser roll.
BLT America
Bocadillo Spain
Bosna Austria Usually grilled on white bread, containing a Bratwurst sausage, onions, and a blend of tomato ketchup, mustard, and curry powder.
Bratwurst Germany
Breakfast roll United Kingdom and Ireland A convenience dish on a variety of bread rolls, containing such breakfast items as sausages, bacon, white or black pudding, with butter, mushrooms, tomatoes and ketchup or brown sauce, and sometimes hash browns or a fried egg.
Breakfast America
British Rail United Kingdom Served on the former British Rail, refers to several sandwiches, such as luncheon meat and sardines, egg and cress, and ham.
Bun kebab Pakistan
Butterbrot Germany Single, open-faced, containing butter as the common ingredient, with sweet or savory toppings depending on the meal.
Cemita Latin America Sliced avocado, meat, white cheese, onions and red sauce (salsa roja), on a fluffy sesame-seeded egg roll. Originally from the city of Puebla.
Chacarero Chile Thinly sliced churrasco-style steak, or lomito-style pork, with tomatoes, green beans and green chiles, served on a round roll.
Cheese America
Cheesesteak America Thinly sliced steak and melted cheese in a long roll. Also known as a Philadelphia or Philly cheesesteak.
Chicken salad
Chip butty United Kingdom A sandwich made with French fries, usually with ketchup or a brown sauce added.
Chipped beef
Chivito Uruguay Filet mignon with mayonnaise, black or green olives, mozzarella, tomatoes and commonly bacon, fried or hardboiled eggs and ham.
Chocolate Usually open-faced. Popular in the Netherlands.
Choripán South America Grilled Chorizo, usually served on a crusty roll with salsa-type condiments like pebre or chimichurri.
Chow mein America A brown gravy-based and chow mein mixture in a hamburger-style bun.
Churrasco Chile Thinly cut of steak, grilled and served on a toasted bun, usually with tomato, avocado and mayonnaise. Other variations exist.
Club America A triple-decker sandwich made with sliced turkey or chicken, bacon, tomato and lettuce. Usually contains mayonnaise.
Corned beef Corned beef with mustard, usually on rye bread.
Crisp United Kingdom Potato chips and pickles on white bread.
Croque-monsieur France A grilled ham and cheese (typically Emmental or Gruyère) sandwich, sometimes coated in a Mornay or Béchamel sauce.
Cuban America/Cuba Ham, roasted pork, Swiss cheese, pickles, mustard, and sometimes Genoa salami on Cuban bread. Usually pressed and warmed in a plancha.
Cucumber United Kingdom Two thin slices of crustless, lightly buttered white bread, containing paper-thin slices of cucumber.
Cudighi Italy Spicy Cudighi (a Michigan variety of Cotechino Italian sausage), on a long, hard roll, often topped with mozzarella cheese and tomato sauce.
Dagwood America Multiple layers containing a wide variety of meats and condiments. Named for Dagwood Bumstead of the comic strip Blondie.
Denver America A sandwich containing a Denver omelette.
Donair Canada
Doner kebab Turkey
Donkey Burger China Chopped or shredded, savory donkey meat in a bun. Sold in Baoding, Hebei Province as street food, and also in high-end restaurants.
Doubles Trinidad and Tobago Two flat fried "bara" (bread), containing curried chick peas or garbanzo beans.
Dyrlægens natmad Denmark A slice of aspic and red onion rings on Leverpostej and salt beef, served a slice of buttered or fat-smeared smørrebrød.
Elvis Sandwich America Peanut butter, banana, and bacon inside of two slices of bread. Has many variations.
Egg Generic sandwich containing eggs, usually sliced boiled eggs or egg salad, but may be made with fried or scrambled egg.
Fischbrötchen Germany Fish (most commonly Bismarck Herring or soused herring and onions.
Fluffernutter America Peanut butter and marshmallow creme.
Fool's Gold Loaf America A whole, warmed, hollowed-out loaf of bread, filled with one jar of creamy peanut butter, one jar of grape jelly, and a pound of bacon.
Francesinha Portugal Wet-cured ham, linguiça, fresh sausage like chipolata, steak or other roast meat, topped with melted cheese, a hot thick tomato, and beer sauce.
French dip America Thinly sliced roast beef on a baguette, served hot, usually au jus ("with juice").
Fried-brain America Sliced calves' brain on sliced bread.
Gatsby South Africa A deli-style sandwich similar to the hoagie. Often contains french fries, with other variations prepared with masala steak, chicken, polony, Vienna sausage, calamari, fish, or chargrilled steak.
Gerber America Half section of Italian or French bread with garlic butter, containing ham, Provel or Provolone cheese, topped with paprika, then toasted.
Guajolota Mexico
Gyro Greece
Ham and cheese America
Ham and egg bun China
Ham Ham, often with mustard.
Hamburger Germany See Hamburger Variations
Hamdog A hot dog wrapped in a beef patty, deep-fried, then covered with chili, a few french fries, and a fried egg.
Horseshoe America A thick-sliced, toasted, open-faced sandwich, usually containing hamburger patties, or ham, but other meat such as deep fried pork tenderloin, grilled or fried chicken breast, and fried fish filets, can be used. The meat is topped with french fries and covered with a cheese sauce.
Hot Brown America Open-faced with turkey and bacon, topped with Mornay sauce and baked or broiled.
Ice cream Vanilla ice cream between thin, biscuits, cookies or slices of cake, normally chocolate.
Italian beef America Thin slices of seasoned, juicy roast beef, on a dense, long Italian-style roll.
Italiano Chile Not a sandwich itself, it refers to a set of toppings to put in a sandwich. Italiano preparation means to use mayonnaise, tomatoes and avocado. "Italiano" refers to the colors of the Italian flag: red (tomato), white (mayonnaise) and green (avocado).
Jam Buttered bread, with jam (traditionally strawberry), normally eaten at lunchtime or as a quick "snack."
Jibarito Meat, cheese, lettuce and tomato, between flattened, fried green plantains (instead of bread), with garlic-flavored mayonnaise.
Katsu sando Japan Breaded, deep-fried pork cutlet.
Kokoretsi Lamb or goat intestines, containing seasoned offal.
Kottenbutter Germany Buttered brown bread with smoked pork sausage (Kottensausage), fresh onion rings and spicy mustard.
Lettuce Lettuce and mayonnaise
Lobster roll America Lobster meat tossed with mayonnaise stuffed into a slit opening at the top of a grilled bread roll or hot dog bun.
Luther Burger America A hamburger or cheeseburger with a glazed doughnuts instead of a bun.
Medianoche Cuba Roast pork, ham, mustard, Swiss cheese, and dill pickles.
Melt America A generic type of sandwich containing some sort of filling, and a layer of cheese, which is then grilled or fried until the cheese is melted.
Mollete Spain
Monte Cristo America Fried ham and cheese (usually Emmental or Gruyère.
Montreal-style smoked meat Canada
Mortadella Brazil Any sandwich containing mortadella and large Italian sausage.
Mother-in-law A hot dog bun containing a Chicago-style corn-roll tamale, topped with chili.
Muffuletta America
Muisjes Netherlands
Naan burger Pakistan
Open-faced Sandwich Nordic
Pan-bagnat France Raw vegetables, hard boiled eggs, anchovies and/or tuna, and olive oil on round, white bread.
Panini Italy
Patty melt America
Peanut butter and jelly America
Pebete Argentina
Pistolette
Ploughman's lunch United Kingdom
Po' boy America
Polish Boy America Kielbasa sausage in a bun, covered with french fries, barbecue sauce (or hot sauce), and coleslaw.
Porilainen Finland A half-inch slice of thick sausage, usually with diced sweet onion, pickles, ketchup, mustard, and sometimes mayonnaise, on white bread.
Pork chop bun China
Pork tenderloin America
Prawn roll Australia
Reuben America Corned beef, sauerkraut, Swiss cheese, topped with Russian or Thousand Island dressing, on rye bread, then grilled.
Roti john Malaysia
Rou jia mo China Stewed Pork, chopped finely, and stuffed in "Mo", a kind of flatbread.
Runza America
Sandwich loaf
Sandwiches de miga Argentina Made with single or double layered buttered, thin white bread with crust removed, toasted or untoasted. Contains thinly sliced meat and may include ham, eggs, cheese, tomatoes, green peppers, lettuce, and sometimes other vegetables, even asparagus.
Sausage America
Shawarma
Sincronizada Mexico
Slider Essentially a miniature hamburger about 3 inches in diameter, but may contain other ingredients besides a hamburger patty.
Sloppy joe America
Smoked meat
Smörgåstårta Sweden Multiple layers of white or light rye bread containing creamy fillings such as egg and mayonnaise, liver paté, olives, shrimp, ham, various cold cuts, caviar, tomato, cucumber, cheese and smoked salmon.
Smørrebrød Denmark Open-faced, buttered dark rye bread with cold cuts, pieces of meat or fish, cheese or spreads.
Sol over Gudhjem Denmark An open-faced sandwich on rugbrød, with smoked herring, chives and a raw egg yolk.
Spiedie America Marinated cubes of chicken, pork, lamb, veal, venison or beef, grilled on a spit, and served in a bun.
St. Paul America An Egg foo young patty (containing mung bean sprouts and minced white onions), dill pickle slices, white onion, mayonnaise, lettuce, and tomato on white bread.
Steak bomb America A grilled, over-stuffed submarine roll, containing shaved steak, and topped with salami, melted provolone, sautéed onions, bell peppers, and mushrooms.
Steak America
Submarine America A generic sandwich that is served on a long French or Italian roll, and may contain a variety of meats, vegetables, and condiments.
Taco Mexico
Tavern America Common in Iowa, consists of a mixture of unseasoned ground beef and sauteed onions, sometimes topped with pickles, ketchup and mustard, on a bun.
Tea United Kingdom Thinly sliced white bread with crusts removed, lightly buttered, containing a light spread of cream cheese or mayonnaise mixture, and often radishes, cucumber, asparagus, or watercress. Other fillings may be pimento cheese, ham with mustard, smoked salmon, fruit jam, curried chicken, and egg salad.
The Scooch America Contains Citterio Hot Sopressata, Boar's Head Natural Capicola, Primadonna cheese, on a ciabatta roll then grilled, with balsamic vinegar, extra virgin olive oil, roasted red peppers, and sliced hot cherry peppers.[2]
Toast Hawaii
Toastie Netherlands Prepared in a sandwich toaster, popular in the Netherlands, and other places.
Tongue toast Sauteed beef tongue and scrambled eggs, served open-faced.[3][4] ada pav
Torta Spain
Torta ahogada Mexico Birote bread (bolillo) sliced open on one side, and filled with chopped, fried pork, and sometimes chicken, beans and cheese. This sandwich is served submerged in a sauce made mostly of a dried chile de árbol.
Tramezzino Triangular white bread with the crusts removed, with fillings such as tuna and olive and prosciutto. Served in Italian bars throughout the day.
Tuna America
Vada pav India A potato fritter coated in chick pea flour (batata vada) in a bun.[5]
Vegemite Australia
Vegetable
Veggie burger America
Wrap roti Caribbean A large, tightly-folded dhalpuri roti, containing a chicken, goat, beef, conch or shrimp curry.
Wurstbrot Germany
Zapiekanka Poland A halved baguette or other bread usually topped with mushrooms and cheese, ham or other meats, and vegetables.

See also

References

  1. ^ David Sterling, "The Lebanese Connection," Yucatan: A Culinary Expedition. [1]
  2. ^ Blumberg, Jess. "The Scooch Situation", Baltimore Magazine, 2009-10-13. Retrieved on 2009-10-31.
  3. ^ Thomas Jefferson Murrey, Cookery for Invalids (White, Stokes & Allen, 1887)
  4. ^ Sarah Annie Frost, The Godey's Lady's Book Receipts and Household Hints (Evans, Stoddart & Company 1870)
  5. ^ Hafta Magazine: Deconstructing the Pav Bhaji