Sandwiches

A sandwich is a dish typically consisting variously of meat, cheese, sauces, and vegetables used as a filling between slices of bread, or placed atop a slice of bread; or, more generally, any dish in which bread serves as a container or wrapper for another food type. The sandwich began as a portable, convenient food in the Western world, and over time it has become prevalent worldwide.

Shawarma (; ) is a Middle Eastern dish that originated during the Ottoman Empire, consisting of meat that is cut into thin slices, stacked in an inverted cone, and roasted on a slow-turning vertical spit. Traditionally made with lamb or mutton, it may also be made with chicken, turkey meat, beef, falafel or veal. The surface of the rotisserie meat is routinely shaved off once it cooks and is ready to be served. Shawarma is a popular street food throughout the Arab world, Israel and the Greater Middle East.

Turkish dish

Gyros, sometimes anglicized as a gyro (; , ), is meat cooked on a vertical rotisserie, then sliced and served wrapped or stuffed in pita bread, along with other ingredients such as tomato, onion, fried potatoes, and tzatziki. In Greece and Cyprus, it is normally made with pork or sometimes with chicken, whilst ground beef and lamb are sometimes used in other countries.

Vietnamese bread or roll or sandwich

single slice of bread with food items on top

precooked or cured meat, often sausages or meat loaves, that are sliced and served cold or hot on sandwiches or on party trays

Salad made with chicken

In German cuisine, ' (literally: butter bread = bread with butter) is a slice of bread topped with butter. Also known as ' in Dutch speaking countries, it is still considered or even if additional toppings, such as cheese, spreads, or lunch meats, are added, as long as it begins with a slice of bread with butter.

meat preparation

Flæskesteg (), the Danish version of roast pork, is considered to be one of Denmark's principal national dishes. Always prepared with crackling, it is traditionally on the menu for the Danish Christmas dinner served as the evening meal on Christmas Eve.

Porchetta () is a savory, fatty, and moist boneless pork roast of Italian culinary tradition. The carcass is deboned and spitted or roasted traditionally over wood for at least eight hours, fat and skin still on. In some traditions, porchetta is stuffed with liver and wild fennel, although many versions do not involve stuffing. Porchetta is usually heavily salted and can be stuffed with garlic, rosemary, fennel, or other herbs, often wild. Porchetta has been selected by the Italian Ministry of Agricultural, Food and Forestry Policy as a (PAT), one of a list of traditional Italian foods held to

Koah-pau or gua bao or cuapao also known as a pork belly bun, ambiguously as bao, or erroneously as bao bun, is a type of lotus leaf bun originating from Fujianese cuisine in China. It is also a popular snack in Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Nagasaki Chinatown in Japan.

South African sandwich

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Torta is a culinary term that can, depending on the cuisine, refer to cakes, pies, flatbreads, sandwiches, or omelettes.

The ' () or ' (in Cheli), in Spain, is a sandwich made with Spanish bread, usually a baguette or similar type of bread, cut lengthwise. Traditionally seen as a humble food, its low cost has allowed it to evolve over time into a representative piece of cuisine. In Spain, they are often eaten in cafes and tapas bars.

type of sandwich

Belgian round bun

(; ) are Dutch aniseed comfits, used as a traditional bread topping, often to celebrate the birth of a baby. They are traditionally eaten on beschuit, or rusk, though it is also customary to eat them on bread. Muisjes is a registered trademark of Koninklijke De Ruijter BV. Muisjes are made of aniseeds with a sugared and colored outer layer. Dutch food processing company De Ruijter, a brand acquired by Heinz in 2001, holds a monopoly on the production of Muisjes.

cheese-based spread

sandwich in Hebei, China, made of chopped or shredded donkey meat in a roasted, semi-flaky bread pocket

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is a Japanese sandwich which is made from Japanese-style cutlet (mainly tonkatsu) between slices of bread, and there are many variations.

Bifana () is a classic Portuguese sandwich eaten all across the country.

Afghan food

type of sandwich

sandwich originating in Pakistan

style of smoked meat corned beef created by Jewish immigrants in Montreal, Quebec

Guajolota (), also known as a torta de tamal, is a form of street food commonly found in Mexico City and within the State of Mexico. It is essentially a sandwich composed of a tamal placed inside a bolillo or a telera, which is a rounder version of a bolillo.

pork birote bread sandwich in chile de árbol sauce

type of sandwich originating from Taiwan

This is a food article about a wrap style sandwich

barbecue-style sandwich

thumb|285px|Chlebíčeks are an appetizer or snack. Obložený chlebíček or just chlebíček () is a dish in Czech and Slovak cuisines also common in other former Austro-Hungarian countries. It is a type of open sandwich with various toppings and garnishes. It is often served as an appetizer dish or as a snack.

bread designed for sandwich making

Laffa, also known as lafa or Iraqi pita, is the Modern Hebrew term for a large, thin flatbread with an Iraqi origin. Laffa is a simple bread that is traditionally vegan and cooked in a tannur or tabun, both of which are clay ovens. It is most often used to wrap falafel, kebab, and shawarma to make sandwiches, to dip in hummus, matbucha and other dips, or with shakshouka, and other dishes. It is also the traditional bread used in sabich, an Israeli eggplant sandwich.

Type of sandwich