Francesinha: the Portuguese gourmet sandwich with meat, cheese and spicy sauce!

By Cookist Wow · 60 min

Ingredients

Instructions

1. In a blender, blend the tomato sauce, meat broth, paprika and chili flakes until smooth.
2. Melt the butter in a saucepan over medium heat. Add the chopped onion, garlic and flour and cook, stirring constantly, for 2–3 minutes until fragrant.
3. Pour in the white wine, red beer, bay leaves, Worcestershire sauce and the blended tomato mixture. Simmer on low heat, stirring now and then, until thickened, then take off the heat and set aside.
4. Heat a little vegetable oil in a skillet and brown the sausages and beef steak on both sides. Remove and keep warm, then fry the eggs sunny side up in the same pan.
5. Lightly toast two slices of bread in a clean pan or toaster.
6. On one slice, layer half the beef, sausage and ham. Top with the second slice.
7. Wrap the sandwich fully in cheese slices.
8. Place the sandwiches on a parchment-lined tray and bake at 180°C (360°F) for 3 minutes, until the cheese melts.
9. Top each sandwich with a sunny-side-up egg, pour the hot sauce generously over and serve right away.

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