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Ingredients

The traditional Cuban sandwich is made with Cuban bread. The bread is cut in half and buttered on both sides. Dill pickles, roast pork, ham, and Swiss cheese are thinly sliced and added in layers. The roast pork is an essential ingredient and to be authentic it needs to be marinated in mojo (a Cuban garlic/citrus marinade) and slow roasted. The sandwich is then lightly toasted in a sandwich press called a "plancha", very similar to a panini press, until the bread is crisp and the cheese is melted. The press both heats and compresses the sandwich. A traditional Cuban sandwich includes yellow mustard, but never mayonnaise, lettuce, or tomato.

The same ingredients are also used on a smaller bread made from a sweeter yellow egg dough and called a medianoche or "midnight" sandwich, so named because of the sandwich's popularity as a midnight after-Clubs snack in the 1940s and 1950s.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_sandwich