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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