Egg and Tomato Hero

Name: Egg and Tomato Hero
Yield: 4 to 6 servings
Cuisine: United States
Ingredients: 6 flat anchovy fillets; Salt and freshly ground black pepper; 2 ripe red tomatoes, cored and sliced; 1 crusty loaf of French or Italian bread; 3 hard-cooked eggs, sliced; Wine vinegar and olive oil; 1 onion, thinly sliced

Preparation info

4 to 6
servings

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

New York Times Menu Cookbook

By Craig Claiborne

Published 1966

About

Ingredients

1 crusty loaf of French or Italian bread
2 ripe red tomatoes, cored and sliced
Salt and freshly ground

Americas
United States
Sandwich
Pescatarian
New York

Method

Slice the bread from one end to the other but do not cut all the way through. Leave one edge of the bread as a “hinge.”
Arrange the tomato slices down the middle of the bread and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Arrange the sliced eggs over the tomatoes. Cover with the anchovy fillets and onion slices. Sprinkle the filling lightly with vinegar and gener