Star Party Submarine Sandwiches
These "California" sandwiches are great to feed a crowd with tomato, basil, bacon, avocado, French bread, and cream cheese.
Calories per serving: 479kcal
Ingredients
- 1 loaf French bread, Unsliced (Important)
- 1 lb bacon, thick is preferred
- 1 tomato, large and ripe
- 1 Avocado, ripe
- 1 bunch Basil Leaves, Fresh Sweet
1/2 cup Mayonnaise, Best Foods/Hellman’s preferred- 8 oz Cream Cheese, at room temperature - Philadelphia preferred
Instructions
- Mise En Place
- Put foil on a half sheet pan. Put a cooling rack on the foil. Place the bacon slice by slice on the rack. Place in a cold oven and turn the heat up to 350. Check the bacon at 10 minutes, and it should be done in about 15. Remove from the oven, and place the bacon on paper towels to absorb grease. Set aside.
- Set aside enough basil leaves to cover one side of the bread. You will be putting these on top of the tomato.
- With a good serrated knife, slice the bread crosswise to have a top and bottom.
- Put the remaining basil leaves in a small food processor with the mayonnaise. Process until all the basil and mayonnaise have mixed together. It's best if the mayonnaise mixture is pale green, but you may be flecks of basil. Set aside.
- Slice the tomato into relatively thick slices, about a quarter of an inch. Set aside.
- Peel and remove the seed from the avocado, then slice it as well. Set aside.
- Take the cream cheese out of the box, and gently knead it still in its wrapper. Set it aside.
- Spread half of the mayonnaise mixture on one half of the bread.
- On one of the sides of the bread, put the bacon strips, avocado slices and top with the sliced tomato.
- Cut one end of the wrapper of the cream cheese. Slowly and carefully, from the bottom, squeeze the cream cheese over the sandwich, spread it slightly with a knife so it goes from end to end.
- Put the remaining basil leaves on top of the cream cheese
- Place the remaining mayonnaise mixture on the other piece of bread, and put that bread on top to close the sandwich.
- You can slice the sandwiches for serving or wrap them for later.
- To wrap for taking elsewhere, get a large roll of cellophane wrap and wrap the sandwich well in it, then cut it into sandwiches, and wrap each sandwich separately. Wrapping submarine sandwich in plastic first will help keep it together when you want to cut it into individual sandwiches.
Notes
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