This traditional Spanish Bocadillo (Sandwich) is stuffed with canned tuna, roasted piquillo peppers, hard-boiled egg, olives, and tomatoes with a schmear of mayonnaise, all wrapped up in parchment to keep it together as you eat.
I was inspired to make this sandwich after reading Call of the Camino by Suzanne Redfearn. I was inspired to use tuna as I made this sandwich on a Lenten Fish Friday...
I LOVED this book on so many levels. It is a fictional account of two women, a mother and a daughter, who are traveling on foot, the 500 miles of the Camino de Santiago in Spain, a generation apart.
Reina had no memory of her mother, who died when she was just a toddler. Her mother and father met while walking the Camino de Santiago. Reina's father died tragically when Reina was only 8 years of age. She has been lovingly raised by an aunt who knows little about Reina's mother but provides Reina with her father's journals and photos from his walk on the Camino.
Isabelle finds herself on the Camino de Santiago in 1997 when she finds herself in danger due to her father's ongoing feud in their little town of Dur up in the Pyrenees mountains of France, bordering Spain. During the walk, she meets Peter, an American who is walking to write a book, The Wisdom of the Way, to provide pilgrims with the knowledge they need to successfully complete the walk.
The chapters flow back and forth between each woman's travels, the life they are leaving behind, the dreams they are walking towards, and the wisdom they gain along the way.
This novel was chosen by Debra of Eliot's Eats. It is our April/May Cook the Books Club selection, so you have plenty of time to join us. You can find out more in the Guidelines section of our club.
I have always dreamed of walking the Camino. I know I will never have more than a month to walk the entire 500 miles, but I could, and hope to, walk the last leg in 5 days. I think that it would be an amazing journey for me and my eldest daughter, Amy, to experience together. Every year, I try to challenge myself, I think this challenge would be perfect for my 70th trip around the sun.
If my dream becomes a reality, I will strive to try a different Bocadillo each day of the trip. Hope to see you in the roundup that Debra will post at the end of May.
Entrees, Sandwiches, Tuna, Fish, Egg
Entrees, Fish
Spanish
Yield: 1
Author: Wendy Klik
Bocata de Atún
This traditional Spanish Bocadillo (Sandwich) is stuffed with canned tuna, roasted piquillo peppers, hard-boiled egg, olives, and tomatoes with a schmear of mayonnaise, all wrapped up in parchment to keep it together as you eat.
Prep time: 5 MinTotal time: 5 Min
Ingredients
1/2 of a small baguette, sliced in half lengthwise.
drizzle of high-quality olive oil or the oil in which the tuna was packed
1 T. Mayonnaise
1/2 can of tuna packed in oil, drained
1 roasted piquillo pepper
1 large Spanish Olive, pitted and sliced into 3 pieces
2-3 slices hard boiled egg
2-3 slices tomato
Instructions
Drizzle the olive oil onto both halves of baguette. Schmear the mayonnaise onto one half.
Flake the tuna onto the half with the mayonnaise, lay the piquillo pepper on top.
Layer the olive slices, egg slices, and tomato slices on top of the pepper.
Top with the other half of the baguette, pressing down to compress.
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