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Passport & Plate - Reverse Sandwich

India | Friday, March 14, 2014 | 5 photos

Ingredients
? Bread slice (1)
? Salami(Chicken/Pork) preferably spicy flavoured (1)
? Eggs (3)
? Garlic chilli sauce (one serving spoonful)
? Green chilli sauce (one serving spoonful)
? Mustard sauce (one teaspoon)
? Mixed herb Italian seasoning/oregano flakes (half a teaspoon)
? Iceberg lettuce (3 small cut leaves)
? Cheese slice (1)
? Salt
? Tomato Ketchup (optional)
? Butter/oil

 

How to prepare this recipe
Prerequisites
Mix garlic chilli sauce, green chilli sauce and mustard sauce in a bowl. Taste the mixture and adjust the same as per your preference of spicy to sour ratio. If it tastes too spicy or sour you can add a little tomato ketchup to balance it out. Mix it thoroughly. Now break the three eggs in the same bowl. Add salt to taste. Sprinkle the Italian seasoning. Now mix all the contents in the bowl with a portable blender.
Toast the slice. Apply a little tomato ketchup on both sides of the bread slice. This will act as an adhesive for the cheese slice and the lettuce. Now place the cheese slice on one side and the lettuce leaves on the other of the bread slice and press them a little.
Cut the salami slice into 8 slices.
Place a frying pan (small, a little deep, flat base and with rounded edges) on a low flame to heat.
Spread some butter/oil to lubricate the pan.
Pour the egg and sauce mixture. Carefully spread the egg. Do not spread the entire syrup.
Stir the syrup and lightly scrape the omelette at a few places (not on the edges). This lessens the syrup as a little syrup takes place of the scrapped portion and forms small contours on the omelette. Do not dry the syrup.
Place the 8 pieces of the salami slice at various points on the omelette. Press each slice a little. This will embed the pieces inside the omelette.
Now place the bread slice in the centre of the omelette with the cheese slice side facing down. Press all sides of the bread slice thus ensuring the bread slice sticks properly to the omelette.
Now scrape the sides of the omelette and turn the sides on a bread slice thus covering all sides of the bread. The syrup will ensure that the omelette sticks around the bread sliced almost entirely.

Serving
Place the sandwich at the bottom centre of the plate.
Now the dressing on the side could be from nothing (I prefer) to a widespread plate.
Place one large leaf of the iceberg lettuce on the top left corner of the plate.
Make some coleslaw salad (preferably cold) and place it in the centre of lettuce leaf.
Now place some potato wafers on the top right corner of the plate and serve.

 

The story behind this recipe
Reverse Sandwich. When I googled (now that we even have a verb version of the search engine) only to see if someone has attempted any such thing what I came across is a dental procedure (reverse sandwich technique) with the same name. Wow! A dental procedure by that name; amazing! Why ‘reverse sandwich’? Simple! A regular sandwich has filling between two or more slices of bread. My recipe has the bread slice as the filling inside an omelette.

I am not a kitchen expert. Infact I don’t enjoy cooking and am not even good at it. But food!!! Well that is what is live for and have to even bear the brunt for that as I am not a healthy eater.

I have never been taught to cook. Or I can say that I never wanted to learn how to cook. The first thing I ever learnt (by simply observing others do) to do in the kitchen was to make coffee and tea. All observations; even making the omelette. The cooking I do is mostly tweaking ready-to-cook meals with a few sauces and cold cut additions. However, when I was home alone for a few days (April 2007) I generally experimented with bread, cold cuts and sauces. This recipe was the first ever success of my experimentation without getting myself killed. This and pepsi was my proud lunch that afternoon. On narrating this to my mother over the phone, my excitement was killed instantly. I got a nice scolding for using the burner when no one was around, followed by her tears. (Seriously! Mothers. Even the mighty Thor may not be able to protect the nine realms with such sincerity). Love you mom.

Returning to the story I invited two friends over for lunch that weekend. I again made this very Reverse Sandwich. They loved it.

About two years later (September 2009) my cousin settled in the U.S. had come back for a couple of weeks. So we cousins had a get together at my place. I made the same recipe. That is how the Reverse Sandwich exists today. I have done a few other experimentations but this one will always be remembered as my first success.