Cucumber and salami tea sandwiches
Don't skip the mustard; it really makes the flavors pop. Some cooks like to use a fork to rake through the skin of the cucumber which produces an attractive pattern. Nice trick for cucumbers with fine thin skins. If the skins are thick, just peel and discard.
Ingredients
- 8 slices white loaf bread
- 8 very thin slices good-quality salami
- 1 cucumber
- ¼ cup mayonnaise
- 1 to 2 tablespoons grainy mustard
Instructions
- Thinly slice the cucumber.
- Whisk together the mayo and grainy mustard.
- Cut off the crusts of the bread.
- Spread four slices with mayonnaise.
- Cut the salami into halves.
- Arrange two pieces on the bread so that the cut sides are parallel to the “near” and “far” edges.
- Lay two more pieces of salami on the bread, this time, the cut sides parallel to the side edges.
- Start piling on the cucumber slices.
- Cover with the four remaining slices of bread.
- Cut each sandwich into quarters.
- Serve, savor and enjoy.