BHELPURI SANDWICH

I used to contribute recipes to a popular cooking website a few years ago. The website once asked its viewers to contribute a kid friendly recipe that is easy to prepare and different and this was my contribution. I don’t make this very often, but when I do, I skip lunch for it is a meal in itself. Very tasty and filling!


BHELPURI SANDWICH

For the Bhel:

100 gms plain puffed rice.
One medium onion – finely chopped
One medium tomato – finely chopped
One medium potato – boiled and chopped.
Mint chutney. (see recipe below).
Sweet chutney (see recipe below)
Salt to taste.
Lemon juice to taste.
Sev/mixture for garnishing – a spoonful.
A few sprigs of cilantro/coriander leaves – finely chopped.

For the mint chutney:

1 bunch mint leaves
1 bunch coriander leaves.
1-2 green chillies. (or see the spicy green chutney recipe for the month of July 2016 in this blog)

For sweet chutney:

Combine a handful of seedless dates (10-12) and a small marble sized ball of tamarind and grind to a fine paste with a little water.

Sandwich bread slices.

METHOD:

1.To prepare mint chutney, grind mint leaves, coriander leaves and green chillies to fine paste by adding a little water and salt to taste and grinding it in a mixer.

2.Keep some mint chutney aside for layering the bread slices.

3.Mix all the vegetables – chopped onion, tomato, potato and puffed rice in a bowl.

4.Add a spoonful of mint chutney, sweet chutney, lemon juice, and salt to taste and give it all a good mix.

5.Add sev and cilantro leaves and mix once more.

6.To prepare the sandwich, take one bread slice, spread a spoonful of mint chutney and a spoonful of sweet chutney over it.

7.Add the bhel on top of the chutney. You may add extra sev if you wish.

8.Place another slice of bread on top of the bhel mixture.

9.Tasty bhelpuri sandwich is ready.

10.*You may add grated carrot if you wish to the bhel mixture.