World Flavors Cookbook

Torta Ahogada

Guadalajara's famous 'drowned sandwich' featuring a crusty birote roll stuffed with carnitas and submerged in a spicy tomato-chili sauce.

Cuisine: Mexico

Ingredients

• 4 birote salado or crusty baguette rolls
• 500g carnitas (slow-cooked pork)
• Tomato sauce: Roma tomatoes, garlic, oregano
• Spicy sauce: dried arbol chiles, vinegar, garlic
• Pickled red onions and lime wedges

Instructions

1. Prepare the tomato sauce by boiling tomatoes and garlic, then blending with oregano and salt.
2. Prepare the spicy arbol chili sauce separately.
3. Stuff the rolls with hot carnitas.
4. Submerge the entire sandwich (or just the bottom) in the tomato sauce.
5. Add as much spicy sauce as you can handle.
6. Top with pickled onions and serve immediately with lime.