Unusual sandwich flavor combinations

[SandwichShortOfAPicnic]

This is hands down my favourite sandwich. It unusual from the POV it uses a lot of ingredients and certainly isn't cheap or quick to make, but the anticipation makes it taste even better.
I absolutely love the salty crispy chicken skin crackling in the sarnie and somehow you're able to taste every component

Nigel Slater’s recipe for a roast chicken and herb mayonnaise sandwich | Food | The Guardian

 

[blades]

In Cuba a hamburger was called a frito and it had a pile of shoestring potatoes on top of the beef patty. It is still crunchy good to me.

 

[TastyReuben]

In Cuba a hamburger was called a frito and it had a pile of shoestring potatoes on top of the beef patty. It is still crunchy good to me.

I used to get a frito burger in San Antonio - but it was a burger doused in chili (con carne) and topped with Fritos!

 

[medtran49]

In Cuba a hamburger was called a frito and it had a pile of shoestring potatoes on top of the beef patty. It is still crunchy good to me.

I wanted to like those so bad when I first tried them years and years ago when my Cuban boyfriend/eventual husband and I would eat out, but the few little Cuban joints I tried them at used those canned shoestring fries, and they just totally turned me off that kind of burger.

 

[blades]

I used to get a frito burger in San Antonio - but it was a burger doused in chili (con carne) and topped with Fritos!

That sounds pretty good too.

 

[karadekoolaid]

This is hands down my favourite sandwich. It unusual from the POV it uses a lot of ingredients and certainly isn't cheap or quick to make, but the anticipation makes it taste even better.

Sounds like it would be a good item for a brunch menu!

 

[SandwichShortOfAPicnic]

Sounds like it would be a good item for a brunch menu!

Well all the herbs, asparagus, radish and pine nuts do make it pretty so probably yes!

 

[JAS_OH1]

This is hands down my favourite sandwich. It unusual from the POV it uses a lot of ingredients and certainly isn't cheap or quick to make, but the anticipation makes it taste even better.
I absolutely love the salty crispy chicken skin crackling in the sarnie and somehow you're able to taste every component

Nigel Slater’s recipe for a roast chicken and herb mayonnaise sandwich | Food | The Guardian

I'd skip the mint and add watercress or alfalfa sprouts. And bacon!

 

[JAS_OH1]

Well all the herbs, asparagus, radish and pine nuts do make it pretty so probably yes!

Pretty expensive but undoubtedly delicious!

 

[SandwichShortOfAPicnic]

I'd skip the mint and add watercress or alfalfa sprouts. And bacon!

I was very dubious about the mint but it works, promise

 

[JAS_OH1]

I was very dubious about the mint but it works, promise

I figure if I don't like mint with lamb (and I don't) I'm not going to like it here, either.

 

[SandwichShortOfAPicnic]

I figure if I don't like mint with lamb (and I don't) I'm not going to like it here, either.

Maybe not

But Lamb and mint is a different beast. Fresh mint leaf un-macerated or uncooked doesn’t taste the same.
That concentrated often sweetened or vinegary mint flavour isn’t in the same ball park.
It’s a bit like a fresh basil leaf tasting nothing like pesto
If you’re happy with the smell of a mint leaf wafting up from a cocktail then you might like it.
On the other hand when you put that much effort in a sandwich why risk it?!

 

[JAS_OH1]

Maybe not

But Lamb and mint is a different beast. Fresh mint leaf un-macerated or uncooked doesn’t taste the same.
That concentrated often sweetened or vinegary mint flavour isn’t in the same ball park.
It’s a bit like a fresh basil leaf tasting nothing like pesto
If you’re happy with the smell of a mint leaf wafting up from a cocktail then you might like it.
On the other hand when you put that much effort in a sandwich why risk it?!

Funny you mentioned the basil or pesto because I was thinking either of those would make an excellent substitute for the mint!

 

[SandwichShortOfAPicnic]

Funny you mentioned the basil or pesto because I was thinking either of those would make an excellent substitute for the mint!

I think the balance in the herb mayo is a bit delicate for pesto, I suspect it would dominate.
I’d probably just leave the mint out, there’s plenty of other stuff going on in that sarnie

 

[JAS_OH1]

I think the balance in the herb mayo is a bit delicate for pesto, I suspect it would dominate.
I’d probably just leave the mint out, there’s plenty of other stuff going on in that sarnie

Maybe. Or maybe just a dab of it.