I grew up on Beaumont Ave and 187th street in little Italy the Bronx. The very same neighborhood Robert Deniro’s A Bronx tale is based on. Every Italian deli in my neighborhood served their Italian heroes with lettuce and tomato.
I'm glad finally someone called this sandwich A HERO WEATHER YOU ORDERED HAM AND CHEESE OR CHICKEN PARMESAN YOU WERE ALWAYS ASKED DO YOU WANT IT ON A HERO OR A ROLL THANK YOU FROM RED HOOK
Who says you shouldn't put lettuce on an Italian sub? I grew up in a VERY Italian neighborhood in the 1950's and every corner store had a good Italian sub whether the owners were Italian or not. They all served their subs with lettuce. Be that as it may that looks like a perfect Italian sub to me. Thanks.
Definitely with the lettuce! Also, I’d substitute the pickles with some sliced Italian Seasoned Pepperoncini peppers. Top of with Italian red wine vinegar. No disrespect to this man, he make a great sub!!!👍🏼
I’m a ginzo from east boston and make my subs like this but i add roasted red peppers .. i think u musta talked to the finochs in revere that dont like lettuce or pickles! Eastie paisans thats a must!! Great looking sub bro
This is how I make my Italian subs, generally. After putting the meats, cheeses, and onions on the bread I toast the sub open-faced, in a convection oven at 325 for 6 minutes. Then take it out and keep building with the other fresh veg / dressing. I just prefer how the salami (and pepperoni as well sometimes) tastes with a little heat, and the cheese to be a little melty. Ups the flavor - for me. Great vid!
You are almost there for a Florentine Schiacciatta. Take your Italian sub and then crush it real flat in a Panino grill, toasting the bread crunchy. Schiacciata means 'squashed' 😊
@@EphemeralThought My teen-son made one these up yesterday. He layered the meats ( incl. thin Chorizo) on the first side of bread and lightely melted slices of Brie over them in an airfryer. Then topped with the salad stuff. It looked and tasted immoral when done. 👌
I know what you mean. First time I ever had a TOASTED ITALIAN sub at a shop I had to ask what is that. After they explained it to me, I said sounds good & had one. I was hooked from that day. I'll still eat a cold one but if I have a choice...TOASTED ITALIAN SUB all the way!
You're missing the good tight deli wrap. Let them all speak to each other "whether they want to or not". But honestly, its a great sandwich that wrapped would probably pop a lot more. You're taking care for every bite that can fall away with every bite. It explains the lettuce complaints too, in a tight deli wrap lettuce (especially dressing it like that) it tends to go from crisp to wet
Love a good Italian sub and you certainly have the right meats, cheese, veggies (yes I love shredded lettuce), dressing and the right bread is a must. HOWEVER...one thing that I would never add is salt. Each one of those meats is cured with SALT, the cheese SALT, the pickles SALT, the peppers SALT, the dressing SALT. I can see black pepper and oregano, but adding extra sodium (I believe there were three additional sprinkles of SALT) make this like a week's load of sodium. I doubt anyone would miss the additional salt.
Buddy, every place that makes an Italian sub in Boston has lettuce. Check yo facts and feel free to name a place that doesn't :D Overall i enjoyed the clip, thank you!
I'm a Spaniard living in Denver and it's been along time since I've eaten a he-man sandwich like this...I better tell my wife to get on the ball!! Great video...I can taste the sandwich from here.
I can’t believe I just came across this video. I made Italian subs for dinner 2 days ago. I didn’t have gabagool so used pepperoni instead. I layered and seasoned the same way. My family loved them. With warmer weather on the way it will be part of the weekly menu for sure. BTW you can’t beat shredded iceberg lettuce on a sub. 😋
@@jeffadams4590 “Gabagool” (some sort of North Jersey bastardization of the word capicola) is like a fattier cut of ham. In my opinion the best of the best in terms of cold cuts. Usually come in spicy or sweet varieties, both are great. Harder to find if you’re just picking up cold cuts from a supermarket, but if you have an Italian deli near you, no doubt you could get some there. Definitely worth a try, ya won’t be disappointed.
Start with a good quality sub roll. Then put proshuto, capacola, pepperoni, provalone, shredded lettuce, sliced tomato, sliced pepperonchini or cherry peppers, roasted red peppers, onions, black olives, salt, pepper, oregano, basil, red wine vinager, and exta version olive oil. Tasty!
You didn't wrap, before you cut, WTF! It went from being perfection, infinity out of a 10 to Muppet show, Oscar the grouch throwing trash everywhere, when you cut it stuff started falling out.
Subway claims to make a Philly steak and cheese. What a bunch of garbage. How do you make a steak and cheese with no grill and 1/8 of an ounce of microwaved camel meet?
Why you Americans have to put so many ingredients into a single panino? Have you ever heard about mixing the right tastes and textures of foods? Anything you do have to transform into a salad. Do you want classic real Italian subs? Mortadella and provolone. Prosciutto (cotto o crudo )mozzarella and tomato Salame, caciocavallo and tomato Tonno with olives tomato and lattuce and mayo, that's it. No 10k of tastes mixed into one panino you're only making these gery good flavors go to waste like this. Also all the extra seasoning it's really unnecessary to say the least because youre already eating salumi and formaggi that are really spiced and salty.
I’ve lived all over the U.S. and I’ve never had an Italian sub that didn’t have lettuce, including in New York City! These anti-lettuce on Italian subs people are koo-koo.
Why would you cut the bread in half your not making garlic bread you need a hinge to keep everything in the sandwich trust me I've made hoagies for 35 years
The problem on my area is the roll. Even the best ingredients need a great roll or it is just an ok sub. There is no where I can buy a great roll. Some of the shops make their own but as a private person I cannot buy them and I am not a baker. By the way, you can omit the pickle on mine but the rest looks delicious. And it is not a sub or “hoagie” without lettuce, it is just a meat sandwich and everything but the roll needs to-be fresh and killer cold.
Shredded lettuce is actually much better somehow than slabs or peels of lettuce. And that looked like a perfect sandwich to me though I’d have added mayo
Great Looking Samich!!!! Shud have wrapped it before eating in my opinion,makes a world of difference. Allows all the ingredients to marry together!!! Keep up the Good work!!!
I love a really good Italian sub. The bread is so important too, if the roll is wrong the sandwich is not right I think. Years ago a little bar in Winthrop, Maine made a sub I fell in love with. It had Amer. Cheese, olives and green peppers in it as well as the Italian cold cuts tomato and onion. I don’t think there was lettuce in it, cant remember. My Mom would get them for us and I was just a little girl. I found the same Maine sub in different areas of the state over the years. I’m going to try your recipe for a great Italian sub, but need to find Calese French rolls, unfortunately most sub rolls I’ve found aren’t good, still searching…….thanks for the great video 👍🏻
I'm with you with the Amer-Cheese....and for sure the roll is KEY.....what I dont get is I never imagined people not liking lettuce on the sub as though its a sin....but for me some capicola, salami, ham, or combo of roast beef and turkey and for the toppings......Lettuce, tomato, roasted red peppers, white-amer-cheese, and sometimes mozzarella (salt,pep.oreg) and of course extra virgin olive oil and vinegar
My Mom used to get an Italian sandwich when she was a kid from a place in Portland, Maine which she copied and gave to her kids. She got them in the 1930's and the add in the local paper advertised them for 25 cents. The most important ingredient was always the bread and I've seen a lot of supposed Italian sandwiches on line where the bread looked terrible. This video had the bread looking like it's supposed to. My Mom used to get her bread from an Italian bakery on 9th Avenue, Hells Kitchen in NYC and bring it home with her on the subway. Great stuff.
Great looking Italian sub but I'M not crazy about all that lettuce and those pickles look like half-sours which ruins an Italian sub.....(my opinion of course)........Either dill or sour or a combination of both I like.......
That looks awesome! I can tell I'll like it already! But I noticed the absence of mayo----is that just a personal preference? I always liked the extra moistness and flavor it adds and it's the first thing I put on the bottom half and I still drizzle Italian dressing over the top. But with all the other stuff you added, maybe it's just not needed.
My Italian godparents did it like this. Only, they would put the vinegrette or Italian dressing right onto the bread.. then smoosh the halves together a little bit.. then spread a little mayo & mustard. I still make my own subs this way. And like you, I use ham (sometimes prosciutto), mortadella, salami, and of course gabagool (I could make the sandwich with just the that 😋) and provolone.. then all the veggies. Hard to find a sandwich shop here in CA that can do it like this!
Weak.....Bread ( not even close ).....No Lettuce...No Tomato NO Onions....Should Have Genoa Salami..Cappacola...Mortadella.Fresh Mozzarella ,,,,Roasted Peppers...very little oil and vinegar.....You're Eating Subway..
