Sandwiches are the best food of all time. You can really put anything between two slices of bread – we mean EVERYTHING! & it will be delicious. Whilst we love a good toastie with spaghetti Bolognese oozing out the sides of sweet, cheap white bread, here are three cleaned up sandwich recipes that are still delicious & decadent.
The cleaned up Club bagel
Laden with bacon, dripping with mayo & precariously held together with that mysterious third piece of toast, the Club Sandwich is a pub, lunchtime & hotel room service go to but honestly it needs some spicing up. We’ve taken the best bits & rebooted this classic sandwich by using fresh salad, turkey instead of chicken & decadent Kewpie mayo.
- 1 tsp olive oil for cooking
- 50g Turkey breast cut into strips grilled
- 1 sesame bagel toasted
- 1 tbsp wholegrain seeded mustard
- 3 tbsp Kewpie mayonnaise
- 20g mixed greens
- 4 cherry tomatoes halved

The crumbed fish sandwich
A northern European favourite & famous for its resourcefulness, the fried fish sandwich is a classic, staple. Served with tangy horseradish cream, a slice of cheese & pickled cucumber, we’ve opted for salmon for this recipe rather than the more traditional white fish options such as flounder, cod or herring usually featuring, but all of which can be substituted seamlessly.

- 1 Salmon fillet (per person)
- 100g panko breadcrumbs
- 1 tsp cayenne pepper
- 1 tsp paprika
- 1 egg
- 20g cornflour
- 1/2 cup vegetable oil
- 4 tbsp horseradish cream
- 1/2 cucumber sliced into thin disks
- 1/3 cup malt or rice wine vinegar
- Cheddar
- White sandwich slice bread
Homage to the Bánh mì
For this magical sandwich, it’s hard to say if báhn mì is about the bread, or the filling. Both are so crucial to get right and the balance between the two is so important.The baguette is slightly different from the French counterpart, having been refined & developed through French colonisation in 19th century Vietnam. This version is sweeter, more hollow & crispier on the outside. Pared with sweet-spicy marinated chicken, pate scraped onto the baguette with Srarchia-Kewpie & topped off with pickled veg, this sandwich is the perfect balance of sweet-salty-fatty-sour.
- 1 large baguette halved
- For the chicken (marinated)
- 200g diced chicken breast
- 1/4 cup vegetable oil
- 2 tbsp fish sauce
- 1 tbsp hoisin sauce
- 1 tbsp chilli flakes
- 1 shallot diced
- 1 fresh lemongrass stalk diced
- 1 lime juiced & zest
- 1 tsp raw sugar
- Vietnamese Pate (blitzed in food processor)
- 4 tbsp melted butter
- 2 tbsp shallot diced
- 1 tbsp vegetable oil
- 50g cooked ground pork
- 50g cooked ground chicken liver
- 1 tsp oyster sauce
- 1tbsp fish sauce
- 1 tsp black pepper
- 100g breadcrumbs
- Pickled vegetables
- 50g cucumber julienned
- 50g daikon radish julienned
- 50g carrot julienned
- 20g spring onion julienned
- 2 tsp sesame oil
- 1/2 cup white wine vinegar
- 1/2 cup raw sugar
- Srarchia Mayo spread onto baguette before pate
- Coriander & red chilli sprinkled on top

