Sandwiches
How to make Cocktail Sandwiches - My 5 Step Process
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Ingredient Suggestions:
White toast bread
Wheatmeal toast bread
Mayonnaise or similar alternative
Mustard or Dijonnaise
Leafy salad greens, preferably a mixture of colours
Meat selection - Some ideas are ham, salami, beef pastrami, chicken, salmon, sliced roast meat
Salad ingredients - Some ideas are cucumber, tomato, avocado, gherkins (drained)
Boiled eggs
Cheese slices, preferably a hard cheese
Alfalfa sprouts or snow pea shoots
Chutney, relish, hummus, dip, pesto
Preparation Suggestions:
Put the mayonnaise and mustard/Dijonnaise into piping bags ready to use.
Thinly slice the cucumber. Put in little stacks on a separate prep tray ready to go.
Carefully core the tomatoes, cut in half and then thinly slice. Add to the prep tray.
Mash the eggs, and add a little mayonnaise and seasoning. Put into a piping bag ready to use.
Assembly Suggestions:
For 6 sandwich 'runs', each with 3 layers of bread, I suggest the following:
Lay out a row of bread with the sides of bread touching (3 slices of wheatmeal bread, then 3 slices of white bread)
Lay out another row underneath in the opposite colours.
Lay out a final row underneath the same as the top row.
Zigzag on a layer of mayonnaise (the 'glue' layer) onto the top and bottom rows of bread.
Add a layer of lettuce leaves to the bottom row of bread. Try to completely cover the slice of bread.
Add a zigzag of Dijonnaise (alternate between the mayo and Dijonnaise for your 'glue' layer).
Add about 6 slices of cucumber to each slice of bread.
Add another layer of glue.
Add the tomatoes.
Add another layer of glue.
Put the middle slice of bread on top of the first layer, carefully lining up the edges.
Add the chutney. If you have 2 options alternate between them.
Add the meat selection. Alternate between these.
Add another layer of glue.
Alternate between some of your other fillings, cheese, gherkins, alfalfa sprouts.
Add the top layer of bread, mayonnaise side down. Make sure all the edges are neatly lined up.
Stack 2 sandwiches on top of each other onto a clean tray so that you have 3 piles of 2 neatly lined up. Don't add any overlapping sandwiches as the lower layers will get unevenly squashed.
Wrap completely with a compostable plastic wrap, adding a bit of pressure to compress the sandwiches. It's best to do a layer right around the tray and then another layer the other way.
Refrigerate over night to compress.
Cut the sandwiches into triangles or cocktail squares or fingers. If you are cutting triangles remember a piece of bread isn't square, so keep the opposite triangles together as they will be the same. On a small scale this isn't visible, but on a full tray of sandwiches it will look much tidier.
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