Panes con pavo is a sandwich made with turkey and vegetables from El Salvador. The turkey when made especially for this sandwich is prepared in a marinade containing worcestershire sauce and is oven roasted.
Yield: 10 Servings
Prep Time: 1 hour
Cook Time: 4 hours 30 minutes
Additional Time: 1 day
Total Time: 1 day 5 hours 30 minutes
Ingredients
- Turkey (whole) – 1
Marinade
- Butter (softened) – ¼ cup
- Worcestershire sauce – ¼ cup
- Yellow mustard – ¼ cup
- Coarse salt – 1 tbsp
- Ground black pepper – 1 ½ tsp
- Adobo (or other favorite savory spice blend) – 1 ½ tsp
Relajo spice mix
- Sesame seeds (raw) – 1/3 cup
- Peanuts (raw) – ¼ cup
- Pumpkin seeds (raw) – ¼ cup
- Chile (dried, destemmed & deseeded) – 1
- Thyme (dried) – 2 tsp
Sauce
- Green peppers (medium) – 2
- Yellow onions (quartered) – 2
- Tomatoes (chopped) – 2 cans
- Tomato and onion mix – 1 can
- Cilantro – 1 bunch
- Flat leaf parsley – 1 bunch
- Celery (chopped) – 2 sticks
- Bay leaves – 3
- Salt and pepper – to taste
- Olives – to taste
Sandwich Assembly
- Rolls (large) – 10
- Romaine lettuce – 10 leaves
- Tomatoes – 30 slices
- Cucumber – 30 slices
- Radishes – to taste
- Watercress – to taste
Instructions
- Rinse the turkey well inside and out, then pat dry.
- Mix all the marinade ingredients together into a runny paste.
- Bathe the turkey in the marinade, inside and out and between the skin of the breast and wings.
- Using a small sharp knife, poke holes all over the turkey.
- Leave to marinate overnight in the fridge.
- Preheat the oven to 400 F.
- Place the marinaded turkey in a deep roaster pan.
- Place in the oven and let it brown, about 30-40 minutes, start to check it after 20 minutes.
- Turn it over to brown the other side.
- Place the sesame seeds, peanuts and pumpkin seeds to a dry frying pan over moderate heat.
- Toast them until fragrant and golden, constantly stirring and shaking the pan.
- When done, put them in a large bowl to cool as the rest of the sauce is prepared
- Put the quartered onions and whole green peppers in a dry pan over high heat and blister them.
- When charred, split the peppers in half and remove the seeds.
- Remove whatever skin peels off easily.
- Add the peppers (in rough chunks) along with the onions into a big bowl with the nuts, seeds, tomatoes, celery, parsley, cilantro, thyme and dried chile. Do not add the bay leaves and olives.
- Blend until smooth.
- Remove the turkey from the oven and quickly cover it with the sauce.
- Add the olives and tuck the bay leaves into the meat folds.
- Lower the heat to 350F and bake the turkey for approximately 3 hours or until tender. If it starts to get too browned at the end, cover with foil.
- Let the turkey cool then slice.
- Slice the rolls open.
- Fill the rolls with layers of sliced turkey, lettuce, cucumbers, radishes, tomatoes, watercress and sauce from the cooked turkey.