Difficulty: Easy
Prep Time: 20 minutes
Cooking Time: 4-6 minutes
Ingredients
1 loaf Cuban bread or French Baguette
1 ounce regular mustard
4-6 dill pickle slices
5 slices boiled ham or Virginia ham
2 slices roast pork
2 slices imported Swiss cheese
1 tsp butter
Cooking Tools
Grill with a weighted press or Panini press
Directions
Cut Cuban bread to desired size, common size is 7 inches. Next, slice open the bread down the middle. On the topside of the bread spread 1-ounce of mustard, evenly across. Then place 4 to 6 pickles on top of the mustard. You then place 2 slice of Swiss cheese on top of the pickles. Slice ham to desired thickness, recommended size is 1 1/2 ounces per slice, the thinner the better. place slices of roast pork evenly on bottom of bread., Now fold each slice of ham in half and place evenly on top of pork slices. Join both halves of the sandwich. You are now ready to grill your Cuban sandwich.
Use a sandwich grill with weighted press if you have one, or a Panini grill. Spread butter on top of the bread evenly. Close the grill, smashing the sandwich. Leave sandwich in the grill until top of bread turns to a golden brown, and top is crisp. Approximate time is 4 to 6 minutes. After the sandwich is crispy and the cheese has melted, remove the sandwich carefully and slice it diagonally, from corner to corner. DO NOT USE A MICROWAVE OVEN!
Serves 1 Sandwich