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Francesinha
Ingredients
- 400g pork belly (cooked in the sauce and added to the sandwich)
Sauce:
(serves 8 and can be frozen)
- 2 onions, diced
- 2 garlic cloves, thinly diced
- 50ml olive oil
- 2 pints lager (approx. 1.1 litres)
- 400ml passata (creamed tomatoes)
- 1tbsp cornflour
- 1 shot Porto wine
- 1 shot whiskey
- 1 glass white wine
- 1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
- 1 tbsp pepper sauce
- 1 hot chilli (optional)
- 2 bay leaves
- 1 or 2 fresh parsley sprigs
- 1 tbsp salt;
- 1 tbsp fresh ground pepper
Sandwich:
- Sliced bread (2 slices per sandwich)
- Thinly cut Edam Cheese (approx. 7 slices* per sandwich)
- Salami or Ham (3 slices* per sandwich)
- Linguiça or Spicy Sausages (2 per sandwich)
* The number of slices depends on the cut
Preparation
Sauce:
- Drop the onions, the garlic & the olive oil into a large pan and heat up on medium heat;
- Once it starts frying add the pork belly and cook it for about 10 minutes (Turning it over a few times);
- After 10 minutes add the beer, the wine, the whiskey and the Port. Leave it to cook for another 10 minutes;
- Then add the passata (creamed tomatoes), the bay leaves, the parsley and the pepper and Worcestershire sauces;
- Add some salt & pepper (and the hot chilli if you like it spicy), give it a good stir and leave it to slow cook for an hour on low heat;
- Once cooked, remove the pork, the bay leaves and the parsley and blend the sauce thoroughly using an electric blender;
- Finally, add the cornflour (diluted in a bit of milk preferably or water) and stir until the sauce thickens slightly.
The Sandwich:
- Start by grilling the sausages;
- While the sausages grill, cut the fatty bits out of the cooked pork and cut the meat into slices;
- Once grilled cut the sausages open in half;
- Then build a sandwich in the following order: 1 slice of bread > 3 slice of salami/ham > 1 slice of cheese > 1 or 2 slice cut pork > 2 slice of salami > 1 slice of cheese > 2 sausages > 1 slice of bread > 5 slice of cheese;
- Toast the sandwich in the oven at 220ºC / 425ºF / Gas mark 7 for about 10 min;
- Finally, pour some hot sauce on top of the sandwich;
Enjoy! Bom apetite!
Tips:
- For best results, cook the sauce on the evening/day before and leave it to rest in the pan overnight, then reheat again the next day before serving;
- It goes down really well with chips and a beer!
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