| Level: | Easy |
| Total: | 25 min |
| Prep: | 15 min |
| Cook: | 10 min |
| Yield: | 4 sandwiches |
Ingredients
- 4 tablespoons unsalted butter
- Two 12- to 14-inch French baguettes, cut in half lengthwise
- 4 tablespoons Dijon or stone-ground mustard
- 1 pound pulled pork, plain (not glazed or barbeque)
- 10 to 12 pickle slices
- 8 to 10 ounces ham, sliced
- 8 slices Swiss cheese
- 2 tablespoons grapeseed oil
Instructions
- To prepare the Cuban, butter the top and bottom interior side of each baguette and place in a skillet over medium heat to brown and crisp the bread. Once browned, remove the baguettes from the skillet and begin to layer each sandwich with 1 tablespoon mustard, 4 ounces pulled pork, 2 slices pickle, 2 to 3 ounces ham and 2 slices Swiss cheese. After stacking the sandwiches, return the skillet to the stove over medium heat and warm with the oil. Add the sandwiches in batches and weigh down with a heavy skillet. Grill until crisp on the exterior, 1 to 2 minutes. Then flip and repeat the process on the second side. Once cooked on both sides, remove and repeat with the remaining sandwiches, then serve.
Nutrition Facts
| Serving Size | 1 of 16 servings |
| Calories | 280 |
| Total Fat | 14 g |
| Saturated Fat | 6 g |
| Carbohydrates | 21 g |
| Dietary Fiber | 1 g |
| Sugar | 2 g |
| Protein | 16 g |
| Cholesterol | 47 mg |
| Sodium | 475 mg |
Reviews
Mr Irvine, while I love your recipes, this is not right.
A Cubano is very basic and very tastey.
Good Bread (Cuban bread, like a good French/Italian bread if you cant get a hold of Cuban bread but NOT a hard baguette)
Butter (top of the bread and bottom of the bread)
Yellow mustard (French’s) (both top and bottom)
Dill pickles (sliced length wise)
Swiss Cheese
Roasted Pork (plain)
Deli ham (not flavored)
Place in a panini press, or in a pan topped with a brick and flip, or have two cast iron frying pans, heated (hot) place the snawich in and top with the preheated other cast iron pan.
There is no oil, let anlone grapeseed oil and for goodness sake the mustard is always, ALWAYS regular yellow mustard.
I am sure Jon Favreau could show you how to fully make this, even cooking the pork etc… need me to ask him for you?
isn’t one of the interior sides to be smeared with mayo not mustard?
love this sandwich
This isn’t true Cuban because it’s not loaded. It’s a basic recipe using a few basic ingredients of a Cuban sandwich that’s fast and easy. Still I make this more then the Ultimate sandwich I also love when I have all day to cook 1 meal.
Sorry, this is NOT a cuban sandwich — there is so much flavoring that goes into the pork (cuban/hispanic flavors — which can be duplicated — just not indicated here — it is NOT just pulled pork! No dijon or stone ground mustard – It sounds like a good sandwich — just not authentic — AND though it is very hard to buy in most areas of the US — it needs cuban bread — not a hater — just not the “real” thing
This sandwich is always a winner. It just tast so awsome