So now everyone
must be thinking what is this खलबत्ता Sandwich? Ok so the story goes like
this. My Mother-in-law ate vegetable grilled sandwich in Hong Kong back in
1986-87. She loved it but didn’t have a grill to make a grilled sandwich. She is
a very creative lady and comes up with innovative ideas. So she made sandwich
and put it on a skillet with butter, put a plate on the sandwich and to give
that pressed look and taste she put small kitchen Khalbatta (Brass Mortar-pastel
) on that plate. It turned out to be an awesome grilled sandwich (except the
grill marks on it). So since then this sandwich got this name in our household.
I know we are one crazy family.
Anyway so to
make it healthier my mother-in-law added a secret ingredient to it. What is it?
Let’s see.
Ingredients:
- Bread: 4-6 slices
- Ajwain/ Ova or Carom seeds: 1½ Tbsp.
- Ginger-garlic paste (optional): 1 Tsp.
- Onion: 1Cup (finely chopped)
- Green pepper: 1Cup (finely chopped)
- Spinach: 1Cup (finely chopped)
- Arugula (optional): ½ Cup (finely chopped)
- Carrots: 1Cup (finely chopped or grated)
- Tomato: 1Cup (finely chopped)
- Cheese (optional): 1cup (grated)
- Unsalted Butter: ½ stick
- Salt: To taste
- Take a kadhai and put ½ Tspn of butter to it.
- Add ajwain and let it splutter nicely.
- Now add chopped onion to it. Sauté till little translucent. Add a little salt at this time which will reduce the cooking time for onion.
- Add carrots and let it cook.
- Once carrot is cooked, start adding other vegetables one by one.
- Add salt as per your taste. You may add ginger-garlic paste at this time.
- Make a nice mix vegetable and keep lid for couple of minutes. Take a bowl and keep this prepared stuffing in the bowl.
- Take bread and butter it generously. This time I took Garlic Tuscany bread since wanted to give a Panini look and also wanted to finish the bread loaf. However, you may take any bread of your choice.
- I used preheated Panini maker on 350F.
- Make sandwiches now. Take one bread slice, put the above mentioned stuffing in it and put another slice over it.
- You may add grated cheese at this time, to your sandwich.
- Put a little unsalted butter on grill and put the sandwich on it. You may put a little butter on the top side of your sandwich to make it crispier.
- Grill both sides properly.
- Mine took around 8-9 minutes.
- Put in on a plate. Cut it and serve it with your choice of sauce.
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