Pan Bagna (French Stick Sandwich)
"This is a recipe for a traditional French ‘submarine’ sandwich. It can be filled with a variety of fillings, but instead of butter or margarine, the bread is ‘bathed’ in olive oil. Pan Bagna should be moist, so it may not the sort of thing you want to eat in polite company! It is best made at least an hour in advance (the resting time is shown as "cooking time") which makes it ideal for filling your lunch box or taking on picnics. Posted for Zaar World Tour 2005."
- Ready In:
- 1hr 10mins
- Ingredients:
- 9
- Serves:
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3-4
ingredients
- 1 long French baguette
- 1 garlic clove, halved
- 4 -6 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
- 3 -4 ripe tomatoes, thinly sliced
- 1 small green pepper, thinly sliced
- 2 ounces gruyere cheese, thinly sliced
- black olives, stoned and sliced
- 6 fresh basil leaves
- salt & freshly ground black pepper
directions
- Cut the baguette in half, then rub the cut surfaces with the garlic; discard the clove.
- Brush 1-1 1/2 tablespoons of olive oil over each half of bread, lay the tomato slices on top of one half and season well.
- Lay the sliced peppers on the tomatoes making sure there is a good even coverage; drizzle the remaining oil over the top.
- Finish off by layering over the slices of cheese, olives and basil leaves; sandwich the loaf together firmly and wrap it in cling film for at least an hour.
- Serve cut diagonally in thick slices.
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Very good;I added ham to the sandwich.We were in France last year and they sold these at every Boulangerie. Thanks for posting.
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Mrs B
Worcester Park, Surrey
I live with my husband and 2 cats in Worcester Park; a quiet typical 1930s suburb (which no one has ever heard of!) about 12 miles South West of London.
I'm a fair weather gardener and as my husband is a vegetarian I grow a few easy vegetables, such as tomatoes and peppers, mainly in containers. My husband loves growing flowers, the brighter the better, and we have a pretty garden as a result. Our cats, Araminta and Purrl, like it too!
I do a lot of cooking and try to keep our diet as healthy and varied as possible. Although I work full time, I use very little in the way of pre-prepared foods. This is partly because of the limited choice of vegetarian meals, which I think are overpriced anyway; but mainly because I like to know what goes in my food!
I love using the Internet for all the great ideas it gives me. Last year I participated in the Zaar World Tour (under my previous public name Caroline Blakey), which was great. Mr B and I tried lots of new foods and discovered new favourite meals. Researching recipes for the Tour was really interesting, however as I didn't have time to try them all, some were posted untested. I'm still working my way very slowly through them. To make matters worse I keep seeing other recipes I want to save and have also participated in Zaar world Tour II. So many recipes, so little time to make them!
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My 'rules' for posting recipes are a) if I wouldn't make a particular recipe, I won't post it and b) if my husband wouldn't eat it, I won't post it. This means that all my recipes are vegetarian friendly.
As you will see from the number of recipes saved in my cookbooks, I particularly enjoy making jams and chutneys; I'd say it was one of my favourite hobbies. We always have a good supply of home preserves; my friends and work colleagues are well supplied too.
If we won the lottery (say £5m, as a good number) we'd like to give up work, move to the country and buy a place with a bit of land. In my dreams this would be a manor house or old vicarage, with a walled garden, an orchard where I could keep hens, a vegetable garden, etc, etc, etc! In my more realistic moments (the £1m win perhaps) I would like to run a B&B, perhaps offering Vegetarian taster weekends. Luckily it costs nothing to dream.......I’d also love more time to read, do embroidery, learn a language, see more of the countryside; and of course play on Zaar.
