With the extended Circuit Breaker measures in place, there’s no better time to start getting active in the kitchen. We’ve compiled a list of sandwich recipes inspired by sweet and savoury creations from all over the world. Anyone can put together a basic PB&J or ham and cheese sandwich, but we’re here to prove that you can easily take this versatile dish to the next level.Â
The limited-edition McGriddles was a wildly popular McDonald’s item when it first arrived, and the maple-infused burger quickly became a cult favourite. Now that McDonald’s outlets no longer carry the item, it’s become impossible to get your hands on this elusive treat. So, instead of moping around, we decided to DIY a Breakfast McGriddles of our own.Â
To make the buns, you will need to prepare your favourite pancake recipe or use a pre-made pancake mix. The most important step in recreating these maple-infused buns is to place a dollop of maple syrup in the centre of each pancake while it is cooking. To keep the pancakes as round and thick as possible, you can use a pancake or egg mold on the pan.Â
Yield: Serves 3
Time needed: 30 minutes
Ingredients
1 batch pancake batter
3 tbsp maple syrup
6 bacon strips
2 eggs
Salt
Black pepper
Cheese slices
Steps:
Having an omelette in a sandwich is typical, but too basic. Instead, we tried wrapping our sandwich inside an egg omelette for this One-Pan Egg Sandwich. If you’re getting into filming your creations during this Circuit Breaker, this egg sandwich hack will probably make captivating content for your TikTok videos or IG Stories.
Like many other sandwich recipes in this list, the toppings are entirely up to you and what you have in your kitchen. Using four eggs for a single sandwich might seem like a lot, but you will need a thick layer of omelette to be able to coat the pan and form your sandwich burrito. Â
Yield: Serves 1
Time needed: 10 minutes
Ingredients
4 eggs
Salt
Black pepper
1 tbsp butter
2 slices bread
Shredded cheese
Ham slices
Bell peppers, chopped
Rocket leaves
Steps:
Saucy and hearty meatballs, topped with melted cheese, and sandwiched between toasted bread rolls—meatball subs are one of the best comfort foods. In this IKEA Meatball Sub recipe, we’ve married a meatball sub together with the iconic Swedish dish to create a creamy and meaty sandwich.Â
Our IKEA Meatballs recipe makes up to 40 meatballs, so you’ll have plenty to fill up your bread rolls with leftovers to keep. The classic Swedish meatball dish calls for lingonberry sauce, but since the fruit is not easily found in Singapore, you can use cranberry jam as a sweet and tart alternative.
We recommend toasting your bread rolls before stuffing them with meatballs. It’ll prevent the bread from getting too soggy, as well as allow it to be served crispy and warm.
Yield: Serves 5
Time needed: 45 minutes
Ingredients
5 hotdog buns or subway rolls
Cranberry or lingonberry jam
Meatballs:
250g minced beef
250g minced pork
2 eggs
Half an onion, minced
60g breadcrumbs
70g butter
1½ tsp salt
1 tsp black pepper
¼ tsp allspice
30ml milk
Gravy:
200ml beef stock
30ml soy sauce
Salt
1 tsp pepper
25g all-purpose flour
25g butter
1 tsp chilli powder
100ml whipping cream
Steps:
We’ve all heard of fried egg on toast, but this Egg-In-A-Hole Sandwich literally puts the fried egg in toast. With crispy bread encasing a runny egg centre, stacked atop layers of bacon, cheese, and avocado, this is a sandwich that definitely requires a fork and knife to eat.
Besides bacon, cheese, and avocado, you can use as many ingredients as you like, including vegetables or more meat. Pro-tip: use thicker bread slices or crusty breads, such as sourdough, so that the slice can hold its shape even with a hole cut out of it.Â
Yield: Serves 1
Time needed: 15 minutes
Ingredients
2 bacon strips
Butter
2 slices bread
1 egg
Salt
Black pepper
2 cheese slices
Half an avocado, sliced
Steps:
The Korean Gilgeori Toast, or Korean street toast, is an internationally beloved snack, thanks to names such as Isaac Toast, that popularised the sweet and savoury treat all over the world. Often served rolled up in a cup or tinfoil, the quick streetside snack usually consists of a vegetable omelette topped with ham, cheese, and a squeeze of ketchup.Â
The most vital step that makes the gilgeori toast what it is, is the sprinkling of sugar over the cooked omelette. This easily overlooked step adds a subtle crunch, and is what gives the unique toast its sweet undertones.Â
Yield: Serves 1Â
Time needed: 15 minutes
Ingredients
2 eggs, beaten
30g cabbage, finely shredded
15g carrots, julienned
5g green onion, sliced
Salt
Black pepper
2 slices bread
Butter
Sugar
Ham slices
Cheese slices
Ketchup
Mayonnaise (optional)
Steps:
These dessert sandwiches are one of the most IG-worthy sandwich recipes that you can whip up at home. The Japanese Fruit Sandwich consists of only three ingredients: fluffy whipped cream, fresh fruits, and white bread. However, to make these sweet sandwiches look as good as they taste, it’s important to plan the arrangement of your fruit well.Â
Mix and match your fruits to give the sandwich a colourful presentation. One diagonal cut across the sandwich will reveal its beautiful cross-section. To achieve a neater appearance, an essential step is wiping down your knife in between cuts.
Yield: Serves 4
Time needed: 30 minutes
Ingredients
4 slices white bread or Japanese milk bread
2 kiwi fruit
1 mango or orange
12 strawberries
1 cup heavy cream
5 tsp sugar
½ tsp vanilla extract (optional)Â
Steps:
Separately, chocolate and cheese are two deliciously decadent treats, but together, these wildly different flavours actually make an unexpected heavenly pairing. Since savoury flavours such as chilli and sea salt are not foreign to the world of chocolate, it’s a mystery how chocolate and cheese has not made a more typical duo.
Brie works great with dark chocolate since it is very mild-tasting and possesses a creamy, almost-buttery, quality to it. Its subtle nutty flavour makes it a perfect match with bittersweet chocolate. We mixed semi-sweet chocolate chips with high-quality dark chocolate chunks to intensify the bitter bite of cocoa.Â
For even more flavour, a sweet dough, such as a brioche or milk bread, works best with rich dessert sandwich recipes such as this one.Â
Yield: Serves 2
Time needed: 10 minutes
Ingredients
4 slices bread
4 tbsp softened butter
Brie slices
Dark chocolate chips or chunks
Steps:
Yakisoba is a stir-fried noodle dish from Japan, it’s a rather recognisable dish that makes frequent appearances in anime and Japanese variety shows. Perhaps even more iconic, is the sandwich version of the dish, the Yakisoba Bun—also known as yakisoba pan—which stuffs hot dog buns with the fried noodles.
Yakisoba is typically stir-fried with pork and vegetables, but you can use whatever you have in the kitchen, or even omit the pork for a vegetarian take on the dish. Every good yakisoba comes with its own savoury yakisoba sauce which you can make from scratch using common kitchen condiments.
Yield: Serves 4
Time needed: 20 minutes
Ingredients
Cooking oil
4 bacon strips
1 green bell pepper, chopped
1 small carrot, finely sliced
Half an onion, finely sliced
2 packets instant noodles
4 hotdog buns
Yakisoba sauce:
3 tbsp oyster sauce
1 tsp dark soy sauce
1 tsp sugar
1 tsp sesame oil
Salt
Steps:
Another entry to our list of sweet sandwich recipes, this Caramel Apple Pie Sandwich is every pie lover’s dream come true. Soft, caramelised apple slices sit atop a bed of cream cheese that’s sandwiched between buttery slices of toast. This sandwich not only mimics the warm spices and sweetness of an apple pie, but also its textures, with crispy bread and a juicy filling.
We used brioche in this recipe since the enriched dough adds a buttery quality to the dessert. However, you can use any type of bread you have at home as long as you toast it with butter! Instead of white sugar, we made our caramel with brown sugar. It’s deeper, toffee-like flavour profile pairs best with spiced desserts such as apple pie.
Yield: Serves 2
Time needed: 10 minutes
Ingredients
4 slices bread
2 tsp butter
1½ tbsp butter
2 tbsp brown sugar
1 apple, sliced
Cinnamon powder
Cream cheese
Steps:
This Korean Three-Coloured Sandwich, also known as the Samsaek sandwich, is just the kind of sandwich you would spot in a fancy picnic party or served in a minimalist cafe. The tri-layered sandwich sports pastel shades of pink, yellow, and green, each made from common sandwich recipes ingredients.
Mayonnaise is a vital ingredient in this sandwich. It acts as a binding agent that holds each filling’s components together, and gives the sandwich a creamy mouthfeel. However, if you’re not a big fan of the condiment, you can substitute mayonnaise with sour cream, or even plain Greek yoghurt for a healthier alternative.
Yield: Serves 3
Time needed: 25 minutes
Ingredients
12 slices bread
Green filling:
1 cucumber, finely diced
½ tsp salt
2-3 tbsp mayonnaise
Black pepper
Yellow filling:
4 hard-boiled egg yolks
2-3 tbsp mayonnaise
1 tbsp yellow mustard
Red filling:
4 ham slices
2-3 tbsp mayonnaise
Steps:
Banh mi is a Vietnamese sandwich conventionally prepared with marinated meat and pickled vegetables. While this tangy and savoury treat is a common street-side dish in Vietnam, coming across it in Singapore is not as easy. Hence, we’ve come up with the Tofu Banh Mi, a flavourful vegetarian version of the sandwich that anyone can recreate.
Not many people know that you can easily make pickled vegetables at home. We’ve included a simple pickled vegetables recipe that allows you to keep it in the fridge for up to a week. The key to a flavourful banh mi is a delicious marinade and good quality sauces, so we highly recommend using flavoured mayo or Kewpie mayonnaise if you have them at home.
Yield: Serves 4Â
Time needed: 30 minutes
Ingredients
4 baguette pieces
1 package tau kwa
Coriander
Mayonnaise
Sriracha (optional)
Pickled vegetables:
2 cups water
3 tbsp rice vinegar
2 tbsp sugar
1 tsp salt
2 carrots, sliced into matchsticks
1 daikon radish, sliced into matchsticks
Tofu marinade:
1 tbsp sesame oil
2 tbsp soy sauce
Half a lime, juiced
1 clove garlic, minced
1 tsp ginger, minced
Steps:
This Baked Katsu Sandwich recipe recreates the crispy Japanese pork cutlet together with a homemade tonkatsu sauce. By toasting panko crumbs in a pan and coating the pork with the crisped-up morsels, you can achieve the golden-brown tonkatsu crust without having to deal with the fuss of deep-frying.
We made our sandwich with a zesty mix of lemon juice, cucumber, and shredded cabbage, but you can top your sandwich with any leftover vegetables you have at home. If you want, you can even make a bigger batch of the tangy tonkatsu sauce, and keep it in the fridge for up to three weeks, and in the freezer for up to three months.Â
Yield: Serves 2
Time needed: 40 minutes
Ingredients
1 cup panko crumbs
1½ tbsp cooking oil
2 100g pork loin or boneless pork chops
2 tbsp plain flour
1 egg, beaten
2 tsp oil
Half a cabbage, finely shredded
Half a lemon, juiced
Salt
4 slices bread
Mayonnaise (optional)
Tonkatsu sauce:
6 tbsp tomato ketchup
2 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
1 tbsp soy sauce
1 tbsp mirin
1 tbsp sugar
1 tsp Dijon mustard
¼ tsp garlic powder
Steps:
The Roti John is probably the most familiar dish in our sandwich lineup. Touted as the Singaporean version of a burger, this beloved local classic is made by slathering a spicy mixture of ground meat and egg onto open-faced baguettes, and cooked on a pan. If you want to serve it like the coffee shop uncles do, the fried omelette sandwich is not complete without an emblematic shower of ketchup and mayonnaise.
You can use any type of chilli paste you have, but to infuse as many local flavours into this dish, we highly recommended using sambal chilli. This recipe also calls for some ground beef, but you can use ground mutton instead if you are partial to meatier flavours.
Yield: Serves 2
Time needed: 15 minutes
Ingredients
1 French baguette
2 tbsp chilli paste
1 onion, chopped
4 eggs, beaten
200g ground beef
¼ tsp salt
Cooking oil
Steps:
Instead of enjoying satay as a skewered snack, you can put them into a Chicken Satay Sandwich to have the sweet and savoury chunks of meat as a meal. The key ingredient of this satay sandwich is the quintessential peanut sauce that comes with every order of the dish. Don’t scrimp on the peanutty satay sauce since it is what grants the sandwich the recognisable satay flavour.
For extra flavour, you can cover the chicken meat in a marinade before cooking. Recipes for satay marinades vary, but you can follow this recipe by Rasa Malaysia which uses a few simple ingredients to recreate the flavourful paste.Â
Yield: Serves 4
Time needed: 20 minute
Ingredients
4 pieces boneless chicken cutlets or chicken breast, sliced
2 tsp olive oil
Salt
Black pepper
1 tbsp lime juice
8 slices bread
1 carrot, finely sliced
1 cup baby spinach or rocket leaves
Satay sauce:
2 tbsp creamy peanut butter
1 tbsp water
2 tsp soy sauce
2 tsp lime juice
2 tsp honey
1 tsp ginger, grated
1 tsp chilli paste
Steps:
As a carb lover, I never considered salad a gratifying meal as it doesn’t fill me up. Toss your salad between slices of toasted bread, and you can eat your fill without feeling too indulgent. This Chicken Salad Sandwich combines fruits, vegetables, protein, and carbs in a single dish without being too tasting too jelak.
Salad is a very versatile dish, so feel free to toss in your favourite salad toppings such as nuts or cheese, and swap out the chicken for turkey or ham to suit your preferences. If you have strong feelings against celery, you can always replace it with chopped iceberg lettuce or shredded cabbage.Â
Yield: Serves 4
Time needed: 25 minutes
Ingredients
4 pieces baguette or 8 slices toasted bread
3 boneless chicken breast
6 lemon slices
Dill (optional)
1 green apple, chopped
Half a red onion, minced
2 celery stalks, chopped
Salad dressing:
â…” cup mayonnaise
¼ cup Dijon mustard
2 tbsp red wine vinegar
Salt
Black pepper
Steps:
Kaya and cheese is an unconventional pairing, but it definitely works well in this Kaya Cream Cheese French Toast. Unlike the usual kaya butter toast, the tart and savoury cream cheese mellows out the sugary spread, making for a light-tasting filling.
Using French toast in this sandwich adds a touch of buttery indulgence to the snack, and also keeps the sandwich from being too dry. If you can’t find spreadable cream cheese, you can also substitute it with ¼ of a block of cream cheese, softened at room temperature.Â
Yield: Serves 4Â
Time needed: 20 minutes
Ingredients
8 slices bread
¼ cup kaya
2 tbsp spreadable cream cheese
6 eggs
1 cup milk
½ tbsp butter
Steps:
Bread may not always be the carb-of-choice for Asian households, but these upgraded sandwich recipes might convince you to switch away from rice and noodles from time to time. Since we’ll be stuck at home for the next month, we hope that these recipes will give you a reason to stay active in the kitchen!
If you are looking for easy recipes to whip up at home, try this Mentaiko Mac and Cheese recipe made entirely in a rice cooker, or use up your stockpiled noodles with this list of instant noodle recipes.
Photos taken by Goh Kerrianne, Chng Jia Yan, John Lery Villanueva, and Leong Kit Shan.
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