Pesto-Cottage Cheese Sandwich | Quick Bite

 

Hi All!!!

I’m here with yet another easy to make, quick fix sandwich which I personally love a lot. There’s a tea bar named kettle close to my home, apart from the various flavours of tea they also serve sandwiches, muffins and a few desserts. I love this place and whenever possible, me and the kid hang out there.

 

Amongst the variety of the sandwiches that Kettle serves, is also the Pesto-Paneer Sandwich and I order it most of the times when I visit the place. I normally stock up Basil leaves in my refrigerator and use it largely for flavouring. But this time I took some time out and made some fresh Basil pesto. It’s not that I’ve not made pesto earlier but in the last few months the leaves would finish before I could think of grinding them.

I love the freshness of the Basil leaves, it just refreshes my mind. I love to play around with this herb creatively and innovatively in my dishes. Have posted a few recipes earlier using this herb and my favourite amongst them is the bruschetta!!

This time I spent a good time peeling the pine nuts which gives an authentic taste to the pesto but I excused myself from adding the parmesan cheese as I was planning to use the Cottage Cheese. This sandwich is ready to eat in flat ten minutes if you have a pesto made in advance and there’s no big recipe behind the filling, it can be quite a flexible mix based on your taste buds..

Pesto-Cottage Cheese Sandwich

Preparation Time:5mins | Cooking Time: 3mins/ sandwich | Serves:3-4 | Difficulty Level:Easy

Ingredients

6-8 bread slices (I used whole wheat)

2-3tbsp Home made basil pesto

chilli flakes ( as required)

Italian seasoning (as required)

Freshly ground pepper (as required)

salt (if required)

olive oil (if required)

150gms soft cottage cheese/ paneer

Method

    

Cube the cottage cheese into small cubes and mix it with the pesto, chilli flakes, Italian seasoning, black pepper and salt. After mixing if you find that the stuffing is dry, mix a little olive oil.

Meanwhile preheat the sandwich maker or the panini grill. Spread the mix evenly on a bread slice and then cover it with the second slice of bread.

Apply oil or use oil spray on the grill and place the sandwich. Grill for 2-3mins.

Remove the sandwich from the grill, cut the sandwich into halves and serve hot with some tomato sauce.

Sending this to my event ‘ONLY’ Sandwiches, burgers and Panini, guest hosted by Savi-Ruchi.

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PECABRE Fritters…Lunch Box Under 10 MINS

Hi Friends!

As my work load is easing down and I’m slowly heading for a month off from work I have gradually started to post regularly here and also managed to visit a few blogs and I am so mighty happy. I was missing on blogging, trying new recipes and reading so many blogs.

My blogger friends are so creative and innovative that it’s completely my loss not to read their posts. Please leave links of those posts in my comment box which you think I have missed out reading in the last one month and which I should not have missed out  and I promise I will surely visit and check them.

Everyday in the morning my attempt is to finish making my kid’s and my lunch box in 10-15 minutes and in this attempt I tried making many new recipes which I’m gradually going to post under Lunch Box Under 10 Mins series. I sincerely feel that it will be very useful for working women who are always in a time crisis and this is my way of helping them out.

Pecabre fritters is a short form of Peanuts, Cabbage and Bread fritters. I made these in close to 10 minutes and these are simply awesome. For saving time, I had deep fried the fritters but one is free to bake them too. They were a super hit in my kid’s and my lunch box too. The peanuts adds a nice crunch to the bite and the cabbage a great flavour.

The only requirement which actually comes out handy to make this is the food processor. I used the chopping attachment and my dough for the fritters was ready in 2 minutes.

These fritters need very few ingredients and are quite versatile as you can change the flavourings as per your choice but the end product using my ingredients is simply too good, try it to believe it.

Ingredients

4 whole wheat bread slices

3 green chillies

salt to taste

2 small handful raw peanuts

a few tea spoon coriander

about half cup cabbage

a few spoons corn-starch

oil for frying

Special Requirement- a food processor

Method

In the food processor run the bread to make the crumbs.

To this add all the other ingredients leaving the oil and corn starch and give it a few pulses. Use raw peanuts as they get fried nicely, add an amazing crunch and saves time.

Add about 1/3 cup water  and give a few more pulses to make a dough. Be careful while adding water as we want to make a soft dough, adding more water can spoil the dough.

Using the dough make small fritters  and roll them in corn starch, remove the excess corn starch  and deep fry over medium heat till golden in colour.

Remove on a kitchen towel to absorb excess oil.

Serve with tomato sauce or green chutney. I packed the fritters along with a sauce sachet.

Tip- Try adding soy sauce for a Chinese touch.

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