Porto-style francesinha sandwich

Ingredients

• 4 thick sandwich-bread slices
• 2 small beef steaks
• 2 Portuguese linguiça sausages
• 4 slices ham
• 8 slices mild melting cheese
• 1 onion
• 2 garlic cloves
• 200 ml beer
• 200 ml tomato passata
• 150 ml beef stock
• 1 tbsp butter
• 1 tsp hot sauce (optional)

Step-by-step method

1. For the sauce, soften onion and garlic in butter. Add beer, passata and stock and simmer gently 15–20 minutes.
2. Blend the sauce smooth and adjust consistency and heat. Keep warm.
3. Cook the steaks and halved sausages until done.
4. For each sandwich, layer bread, ham, steak, sausage and a second bread slice. Drape with melting cheese.
5. Briefly grill until the cheese melts. Cover with hot sauce and serve, traditionally with chips.