Preparation Time : 20 minutes
Cooking Time : 2 minutes
Serving: one person
Description
3 colour stacked up sandwich . My maternal uncle shanu ( who is younger to me , I know it sounds wired but that’s the fact ) had come home for a days visit . He had to leave early morning by seven o clock the next day . Not wanting him to leave with out having his breakfast . Got in to the kitchen and went ahead with the regular idli , dosa , kuli Paniyaram schedule . But wanting to impress him with something new That would leave a mark in his memory . Having very little time , had to come up with a quick and easy recipe . Went strait to my refrigerator and just gazed at the available ingredients inside . Took out a few that would work together and made up my mind to make a sandwich but a bite size one as I had only four slices of bread and one egg in hand . Prepared all the wanted ingredients and just stacked them up together to get an awesome , vibrant , colourful looking sandwich packed with so much character and taste . The marinated three coloured peppers and the green pesto add complexity and made it all the more flavourful . The sandwich was ready in a flash and is apt for on the run meals , work lunch and for kids to school that makes a welcome change from the usual . my uncle was all praises about the sandwich and my quest of a new dish with limited amount of time and things available in my pantry made my day .
Ingredients
Ingredients | Quantity |
|---|---|
| White Bread slices | 4 large (cut into bite size cubes ) |
| Cheese slice | 2 cut into bite size cubes equal to the bread cubes ( optional ) |
| Salt | to taste |
| Omelet | made with one beaten egg and cut into even bite size cubes like the bread |
| Capsicum | green |
| yellow and red | 1 each cut into even size cubes equal to the bread bite size cubes |
| Vinegar | 1/4 teaspoons |
| Sugar | 1/4 teaspoon |
| Mayonnaise | 2 tablespoons |
| Tomato sauce | 2 tablespoons |
| Olives or cherries | to garnish |
| Tooth pick | to serve |
Ingredients for the green pesto
Ingredients | Quantity |
|---|---|
| olive oil | 2 tablespoons |
| garlic | 2 flakes |
| fresh basil leaves ( tulsi leaves ) | 5 |
| Coriander leaves | 1/4 cup |
| Parmesan cheese | 2 tablespoon |
| Green chillies | 2 or to taste |
| pine nuts | 1 tablespoons |
| butter | 1 tablespoon |
| Salt and pepper | to taste |
Method
- To make the pesto , Grind all the ingredients together in a food processor to a chunky texture and set aside .
- Marinate the red , yellow and green capsicums / pepper cubes in vinegar, sugar and salt to taste and Set aside .
- Mix mayonnaise and tomato sauce together and set aside .
To assemble the sandwich
- Toast bread slices in butter to a golden brown colour . Spread the green pesto on one side of a toasted bread cube .
- Place a piece of omelet cube , top with cheese slice cube , place green capsicum cube over and place another slice of toasted bread with tomato mayonnaise applied side facing towards the green capsicum.
- Top with pesto on the other side of the bread cube , place with yellow pepper cube , omelet cube and cheese slice cube .
- Then place a bread slice applied with tomato mayonnaise applied side facing down towards the yellow capsicum , apply green pesto over , top with omelet cube , cheese slice cube and do the same by repeating the layer with red capsicum slice .
- Making sure bread is the final layer . Insert a tooth pick and top the tooth pick with whole olive or cherrie and serve .
Notes
- You can use mint chutney mixed with mayonnaise instead of green pesto sauce .
- Vegetarians avoid the omelet and you get the veggie version .
