List of sandwiches
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This is a list of notable sandwiches:
Name | Image | Origin | Description |
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Bacon | ![]() |
United Kingdom | Often served with ketchup or a brown sauce. |
Bacon, egg and cheese | ![]() |
A breakfast sandwich. Eggs usually fried or scrambled. | |
Baked bean | ![]() |
United Kingdom | Tinned baked beans on white or brown bread. |
Bánh mì | ![]() |
Vietnam | 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 hollowed-out French bun. |
Beef on weck | ![]() |
United States | Roast beef on a caraway Kaiser roll. |
BLT | ![]() |
United States | Name derives from initials of its ingredients: Bacon, Lettuce and Tomato. |
Bocadillo | ![]() |
Spain | wide variety of fillings: tortilla, squid, cheese, ham, pork loin, etc.. some Spanish regions spread tomato and olive oil on the bread |
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 | ![]() |
United States | Typically a scrambled or fried egg, cheese, and a sausage patty or other breakfast meat served on a biscuit or English muffin. |
British Rail | File:British Rail sandwich 01.jpg | United Kingdom | Reference to the poor quality of catering on the now-defunct British Rail, refers to any sandwich where the bread has started to go stale and hard and curl up at the edges. |
Broodje kroket | ![]() |
Netherlands | A deep-fried food roll containing different ingredients but usually beef and/or pork on a soft bread roll. Often served with mustard. |
Bun kebab | ![]() |
Pakistan | |
Butterbrot | ![]() |
German, Russia | 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 | United States | ||
Cheesesteak | ![]() |
United States | Thinly sliced steak and melted cheese in a long roll. Also known as a Philadelphia or Philly cheesesteak. |
Chicken salad | ![]() |
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Chip butty | ![]() |
United Kingdom | A sandwich made with chips, 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 | File:De ruyter vlokken.jpg | Netherlands | Usually open-faced. |
Choripán | ![]() |
South America | Grilled Chorizo, usually served on a crusty roll with salsa-type condiments like pebre or chimichurri. |
Chow mein | ![]() |
United States | 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 | ![]() |
United States | 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 | Crisps 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 | ![]() |
United States / 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 | ![]() |
United States | Multiple layers containing a wide variety of meats and condiments. Named for Dagwood Bumstead of the comic strip Blondie. |
Denver | United States | A sandwich containing a Denver omelette. | |
Donair | Canada | Usually a pita wrap containing donair meat as well as diced vegetables such as lettuce, tomatoes, red onion, cilantro, and jalapeño peppers. Usually contains a sweet and creamy donair sauce. | |
Doner kebab | ![]() |
Turkey | |
Donkey Sandwich | ![]() |
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 | ![]() |
United States | 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 | ![]() |
United States | Peanut butter and marshmallow creme. |
Fool's Gold Loaf | United States | 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. | |
Francesinha poveira | Portugal | A bun with Wet-cured ham, linguiça, and cheese. Sauce with Butter, Margarina, Piri-piri, and Port, whiskey, Cognac or Brandy. | |
French dip | ![]() |
United States | Thinly sliced roast beef on a baguette, served hot, usually au jus ("with juice"). |
Fried-brain | ![]() |
United States | 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 | United States | Half section of Italian or French bread with garlic butter, containing ham, Provel or Provolone cheese, topped with paprika, then toasted. | |
Guacamaya | Mexico | Inside a bolillo, Mexican bread, we insert fried pork rind (chicharron), beans and a sauce made of tomato, onion and chile (Pico de gallo). Found in Leon, Guanajuato. | |
Guajolota | ![]() |
Mexico | A tamale inserted in a Mexican bread, bolillo, easy to find in Mexico City streets in the morning. |
Gyro | ![]() |
Greece | |
Ham and cheese | |||
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 | ![]() |
United States | 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 | ![]() |
United States | 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 | ![]() |
United States | Thin slices of seasoned, juicy roast beef, often garnished with giardiniera or Italian sweet peppers, 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 | ![]() |
United Kingdom | Buttered bread, with jam (traditionally strawberry), normally eaten at lunchtime or as a quick "snack;" may also be eaten at breakfast or for high tea. |
Jibarito | ![]() |
Puerto Rico | 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 | ![]() |
United States | Lobster meat tossed with mayonnaise stuffed into a slit opening at the top of a grilled bread roll or hot dog bun. |
Luther Burger | United States | A hamburger or cheeseburger with a glazed doughnuts instead of a bun. | |
Marmite | ![]() |
United Kingdom | Usually spread thinly with butter or margarine onto toast or bread. |
Martino | Belgium | Filet américain (steak tartare) with worchester sauce, pickels, onions, peppers and martino sauce. | |
Medianoche | ![]() |
Cuba | Roast pork, ham, mustard, Swiss cheese, and dill pickles. |
Melt | ![]() |
United States | 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 | ![]() |
United States | Fried ham and cheese (usually Emmental or Gruyère on French toast usually served with jelly or jam. |
Montreal-style smoked meat | Canada | Thick, juicy stack of montreal smoked meat with mustard between two slices of rye bread. | |
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 | ![]() |
United States | Originated New Orleans Italian-American community; meats, cheeses, and olive salad on a round bun. |
Muisjes | File:Beschuit met Muisjes.jpg | Netherlands | |
Naan Sandwich | 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 | ![]() |
United States | |
Peanut butter and jelly | ![]() |
United States | |
Pebete | Argentina | ||
Pistolette | |||
Ploughman's lunch | ![]() |
United Kingdom | |
Po' boy
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United States | |
Polish Boy | ![]() |
United States | 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 | |||
Prawn roll | Australia | ||
Primanti | ![]() |
United States | Selection of grilled meats topped with french fries, coleslaw,and tomato on Italian bread. |
Reuben | ![]() |
United States | 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 | ![]() |
United States | |
Sandwich loaf | ![]() |
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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 | ![]() |
United Kingdom and Germany | Sausages, although sometimes chipolatas. The sausages may be pork or beef sausages, although they may be vegetarian sausages. |
Shawarma | ![]() |
Turkey | |
Bugaçe | Albania | Is a Elbasans breakfast from Albania.Made by bread,patty and meatball | |
Slider | ![]() |
Essentially a miniature hamburger about 3 inches in diameter, but may contain other ingredients besides a hamburger patty. | |
Sloppy joe | ![]() |
United States | |
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 | ![]() |
United States | Marinated cubes of chicken, pork, lamb, veal, venison or beef, grilled on a spit, and served in a bun. |
St. Paul | ![]() |
United States | 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 | United States | A grilled, over-stuffed submarine roll, containing shaved steak, and topped with salami, melted provolone, sautéed onions, bell peppers, and mushrooms. | |
Steak | ![]() |
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Submarine | ![]() |
United States | A generic sandwich that is served on a long French or Italian roll, and may contain a variety of meats, vegetables, and condiments. |
Tavern | ![]() |
United States | 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 | File:Teasand.jpg | 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 | United States | 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.[1] | |
Toast Hawaii | ![]() |
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Toastie | ![]() |
Netherlands | Prepared in a sandwich toaster |
Tongue toast | ![]() |
Sauteed beef tongue and scrambled eggs, served open-faced.[2][3] ada pav | |
Torta | ![]() |
Mexico | |
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 | ![]() |
United States | |
Vada pav | ![]() |
India | A potato fritter coated in chick pea flour (batata vada) in a bun.[4] |
Vegemite | ![]() |
Australia | |
Vegetable | ![]() |
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Wurstbrot | Germany | ||
Zapiekanka | ![]() |
Poland | A halved baguette or other bread usually topped with mushrooms and cheese, ham or other meats, and vegetables. |
See also
- List of breads
- List of cakes
- List of cookies
- List of pastries
- List of pies, tarts and flans
- List of puddings
References
- ^ Blumberg, Jess. "The Scooch Situation", Baltimore Magazine, 2009-10-13. Retrieved on 2009-10-31.
- ^ Thomas Jefferson Murrey, Cookery for Invalids (White, Stokes & Allen, 1887)
- ^ Sarah Annie Frost, The Godey's Lady's Book Receipts and Household Hints (Evans, Stoddart & Company 1870)
- ^ Hafta Magazine: Deconstructing the Pav Bhaji