FRUITS SANDWICH RECIPE
A beloved snack in Japan, the fruits sandwich consists of a milky white bread with the ears cut off with whip cream and your choice of fruit (typically strawberries) in between for a sweet-delicious sandwich.
They are sold anywhere in Japan, ranging from cheap convenience store sandwiches to high end, high quality sandwiches costing over 1500 Yen (about 14 USD). We also visit a fruits sandwich shop at Tokyo Station on our Tokyo food tour.
If you have a sudden craving for a fruits sandwich, check out the recipe below by Just One Cookbook.
Video credit to Just One Cookbook
INGREDIENTS
12 strawberries
2 kiwis
1 navel orange
4 slices of shokupan (Japanese milky white bread or any kind of bread of your choice if unavailable)
Whipped Cream
1 cup heavy (whipping) cream 240 ml
5 tsp sugar (or ten percent of heavy whipping cream)
1 tsp rum (optional)
Procedure
Remove core of straberries
Cut off both ends and peel kiwi
Cut off both ends and peel orange
Cut off segment wall and separate oranges into each segment
Pat down fruits with paper towel
Whipped cream
Prepare a large bowl of iced water and place a medium bowl inside the larger bowl to keep cool. Make sure the bowl is clean and dry. Add the heavy whipping cream and start whisking on low speed.
Once bubbly, add sugar and rum (if you are using) and start whisking on medium-high speed.
The cream will be thicker as you whip.
When you lift the whisk out of the cream and shows peaks, remove the bowl from the ice bath and switch to a hand whisk. Whisk until you achieve the right consistency. Check the consistency of the whipped cream as you whisk. It should be spreadable but not runny because it goes between the sandwich bread.
Now spread the whipped cream on both sides of the sandwich bread.
Only on one side of the sandwich bread, align the fruits. I plan to cut the sandwich diagonally. Think carefully about how you want to show your cross section. I recommend taking a picture of the alignment of the fruits and don’t change the orientation of the sandwich.
Put the whipped cream to fill in any gap between fruits.
Put the second slices of sandwich bread over the fruits, facing the whipped cream side down.
Prepare plastic wrap, large enough to wrap the sandwich tightly from all four sides.
Mark the cross section over the plastic wrap with a pen.
Put the sandwiches between plates and refrigerate for at least one hour (up to overnight). In Japan, putting weight on the sandwich is a pretty standard method prior to cutting in half.
Open the plastic wrap and cut the sandwich in half diagonally with a clean knife. Keep it closed (Don’t open the sandwich to show cross section yet). Clean the knife with a hot wet towel before each cut.
Cut off all the ears.
Then serve and enjoy!
Photo credit: Just One Cookbook