Crab and smoked salmon club sandwiches

A recipe from cooking-ez.com

For 4 sandwiches, you will need:

• 1 100 g crab meat
• 2 2 slices smoked salmon
• 3 2 tomatoes
• 4 ½ lettuce
• 5 3 tablespoons cocktail sauce
• 6 2 slices smoked ham
• 7 12 slices sandwich bread
• Total weight: 1,235 grams

Times:

Preparation	Cooking	Start to finish
60 min.	5 min.	1 hour 2 min.

Step by step recipe

• 1: Prepare cocktail sauce.
  Put 100 g crab meat in a bowl with 1 tbs cocktail sauce and mix well.
  Set aside.
• 2: Cut 2 slices smoked salmon into small pieces, put in a bowl with 1 tbs cocktail sauce and mix well.
  Set aside.
• 3: Peel 2 tomatoes, cut into quarters and discard the insides to get tomato "petals".
• 4: Cut ½ lettuce into fine shreds (chiffonade), put in a bowl with 1 tbs cocktail sauce and mix well.
  Set aside.
• 5: Cut 2 slices smoked ham in two and put each half in a hot frying pan for 20 seconds on each side.
• 6: Toast 12 slices sandwich bread.
• 7: Start assembling sandwiches:
  Put 1 slice of toast in front of you, add a half slice of fried ham.
• 8: Put on some shredded lettuce.
• 9: Then crab or salmon depending which sandwich you are making.
• 10: Put another slice of toast on top.
• 11: Another layer of salad, 2 tomato quarters and more crab (or salmon).
• 12: Finish with a final slice of toast.
• 13: Fix with 2 tooth-picks to keep it all together.
• 14: Trim sandwich edges with a bread (or other serrated) knife, then cut diagonally into two triangles.
  Traditionally, club sandwiches are served in triangle shapes.
• 15: Serve 1 crab triangle and 1 salmon triangle per guest.

Remarks

Club sandwiches are very filling, it's a main course rather than a starter.
If you don't like cocktail sauce, don't hesitate to make them with mayonnaise or sauce rémoulade.

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