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Saag Grill Toast

Name: Saag Grill Toast
Yield: 2 sandwiches
Cuisine: Thathai Bhatia (Sindhi)
Ingredients: 1 cup leftover vegetables — one of: Saluna / Pan Gobi jo Saag (cabbage saag) / Phool Gobi jo Saag (cauliflower saag) / Tindoraan jo Saag (ivy-gourd saag); 2 tomatoes; 20 g butter; 4 slices bread; 2 cheese slices (optional)

Vegetable grill toast

Makes2 sandwiches

Timeabout 20 min

A buttered, grilled sandwich in which leftover vegetable saag is layered with sliced tomato (and optional cheese) between bread slices and grilled until golden. Savoury and crisp outside, eaten hot with tomato ketchup or Dharan ji chutney; phulka can replace the bread for a quesadilla-style version.

Ingredients

Make

Measure in

1 cup leftover vegetables — one of: Saluna / Pan Gobi jo Saag (cabbage saag) / Phool Gobi jo Saag (cauliflower saag) / Tindoraan jo Saag (ivy-gourd saag)
2 tomatoes
20 g butter
4 slices bread
2 cheese slices (optional)

Method

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Butter all the bread slices.
Slice the tomatoes.
Spread 2 spoonfuls of the leftover vegetables in the centre of a bread slice and cover it with 3–4 tomato slices.
Add a cheese slice if using. Place a second slice of bread on top, buttered side facing the filling. Add a dash of butter on top of the bread before grilling, for colour.
Grill the sandwich until the bread is golden brown.

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Tips and variations

Variation: use phulko in place of the bread slices — grill it the same way, cut it into quarters like quesadillas, and serve with ketchup, chutney or any dip.

Serve with

Hot, with tomato ketchup or Dharan ji chutney (green coriander chutney).

Recipes mentioned here

Dharan ji ChutneyCoriander chutney (tikhi)Chutneys, pickles & drinks

PhulkoEveryday puffed whole-wheat flatbreadBreads

Made from

This dish uses up leftover:

Pan Gobi jo SaagDry cabbage vegetableDinner

Phool Gobi jo SaagDry cauliflower vegetableDinner

Tindoraan jo SaagRound gourd vegetableDinner

Nutrition

Estimated

Per sandwiche

400 kcal

Protein: 14 g
Carbohydrate: 41 g
Fat: 21 g

The recipe makes 2 sandwiches.

Whole recipe

790 kcal

Protein: 27 g
Carbohydrate: 81 g
Fat: 41 g

Everything in the ingredients list.

These are estimates, worked out from the amounts in the recipe and typical values for each ingredient. Portion sizes and the exact amount of oil, ghee or sugar can change them a lot. How we estimate

Where this recipe comes from

Recipe from Panja Khada by Bharat and Deepa Chachara, shared by Dipti Mayur.

See the original recipe and photos