Sambharo Open Toast

This plum toast follows a basic formula - cream cheese + stone fruit + chilies + herbs + honey on very nicely toasted bread! So simple, but brilliant!

Sandwiches It may sound odd to pair fresh tomatoes with soya sauce – but it works! It works beautifully. Imagine the umami of soya sauce and the tartness of tomatoes and the spice of ginger – an explosive experience for the taste buds. Pairing this with old fashioned cream cheese is the final touch that merges the open sandwich and topping with crunchy black sesame seeds not only adds the stark colour but makes me feel pretty intelligent! This is a great alternative to the traditional bruschetta or an addition to a mixed bruschetta platter. The tomato and soya toast is also a quick recipe that you can make within 15 minutes, and by adding a few extra minutes on creamy scrambled eggs – this is a complete meal for an exhausted dinner. The Recipe Serves Serves: 2 | Prep Time: 30 mins | Cook Time: 15 mins Ingredients 2-3 tomatoes, roughly sliced 2 tbsp soya sauce ½ tsp vegetable oil 1 tsp grated ginger ½ tsp salt few slices of green part of spring onions 1 tbsp cream cheese per toast 1 tsp black sesame seeds, toasted 2 slices of toasted bread of your choice Instructions Heat oil in a medium pan Add ginger and tomatoes and stir for few minutes Add salt and soya sauce and let cook for a few more minutes Remove from pan Spread the cream cheese liberally on each warm toasted bread Load the tomatoes on top and garnish with spring onions and toasted black sesame seeds Eat warm

Sandwiches Equity Sandwich is what we call it at home, I have no idea what others do – but I believe it is a household dish in most Gujarati homes. Don’t ask me why, because I have no answers, and I know better than to argue with my mother and her sisters. But a bit of digging leads me to believe that the toaster equipment was made by a brand called equity – someone please verify this for me! Equity chamcho is what we kids made a large meal out of – and I mean LARGE. Each of us sat with at least 3 chamchos, half a bottle of ketchup and tall glass of cold coffee made from whole milk and a heavy dose of vanilla ice cream. There was no messing about in this meal. Occasionally, if the gods were kind (read: my mother), we got French fries too. For the longest time I beleived equity referred to the filling – shredded cabbage, tomatoes, maybe carrots, salt, pepper, red chilli powder and lemon juice along with a lot of Amul cheese – but that’s just our home! Stuffed between classic white bread, slathered in Amul butter and put in a handheld equipment and grilled over an open flame. Nothing beats this charring taste! We recreated this for one of the BBQ lunches we had – placing it on the hot coals, lending it’s delicious flavour and aroma! Coal from coconut shells: here  Equipment: handheld sandwich maker The Recipe Serves 3 Ingredients 6 bread slices Butter ½ cup shredded cabbage ¼ - ½ cup cheese, shredded (personal choice) ¼ cup finely chopped onion 1 tomato, finely chopped ½ tsp salt ½ tsp red chili powder 1 tsp lemon juice Equipment: handheld sandwich maker https://amzn.to/39cb5ek Instructions In a bowl mix the cheese, cabbage, onion, tomato, salt, red chili powder and lemon juice together Place the mixture between two slices of bread and fasten Generously butter the outside part of the bread slices and place into the handheld sandwich toaster Place on the gas flame for 3-4 minutes on each side Serve warm with ketchup and mustard on the side On a coal-grill: Place the handheld sandwich maker on the hot coals for 5-7 minutes on each side, checking occasionally