The French Picnic Baguette – Pan Bagnat

This delightful sandwich from Nice, in the South of France, started out as a Salade Niçoise in which stale bread...

French

📊 Recipe Overview

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120 Total Time

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4 Servings

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medium Difficulty

📝 Description

This delightful sandwich from Nice, in the South of France, started out as a Salade Niçoise in which stale bread...

🥘 Ingredients

Servings:

Original: 4

1 baguette, the wider type such as Pain (or 4 ciabatta rolls)
1 garlic clove, peeled
extra virgin olive oil
salt
black pepper
2 hard-boiled eggs, peeled and thinly sliced
200 g good quality tuna
3 -4 ripe tomatoes, sliced
6 salted anchovies
pitted black olives
1/2 red onion, finely sliced into rings
1/2 cos lettuce, leaves roughly torn (or something similarly crunchy)
white wine vinegar

📋 Instructions

Cut the baguette into even size portions.
Then cut the baguette pieces or bread rolls in half lengthways, and scoop out some of the bread filling. (You use this for a gratin-type affair later in the week or for breadcrumbs).
Rub the garlic over the inside of both halves, drizzle with a generous amount of olive oil and season well.
In one hollowed-out half, pack in the egg slices, tuna, tomatoes, anchovies, olives, chopped red onion and lettuce leaves.
Drizzle with more oil, and a little white-wine vinegar.
Put the other half of the baguette or bread roll on top, wrap snugly in tinfoil and place on a flat surface. Lay some big books on top to weigh it down. (I use a Larousse Gastronomique!).
Leave for an hour or two. Then remove the tinfoil and wrap a band of greaseproof or brown paper around the middle of each portion, and tie tightly with kitchen string.
These can then be stored overnight in a covered container until next day. (This is not necessary - but can be handy to avoid all the fuss next day!).
Take them on your picnic with wine, fruit and good company!
Sublime!

👨‍🍳 Chef's Tips

Professional tips to make this recipe perfect every time!

💡 Preheat your oven fully before baking for even results.
💡 Use room temperature ingredients for better mixing.
💡 Don't overmix the batter to avoid tough texture.
💡 Measure ingredients by weight for more consistent results.

Nutrition Facts

Per Serving

Serving Size: 1 portion (4 servings per recipe)

Calories 458.3

% Daily Value*

Total Fat 8.9g 14%

Saturated Fat 2.2g 11%

Cholesterol 125mg 42%

Sodium 752.5mg 33%

Protein 26.7g 53%

Additional Nutrition

Carbohydrates 67

*The % Daily Value tells you how much a nutrient in a serving of food contributes to a daily diet. 2,000 calories a day is used for general nutrition advice.