Steemit Sandwich Contest Week # 6 - Curry Theme Sandwich (2nd entry): The ‘Sneaky’ Curry Pakora Sandwich

Pakora is Indian fried snack and I had tried it at restaurants with tamarind chutney. Let’s be honest, many of us love fried food, although it might not be the healthiest. However, we are only human and once in awhile it is A-Okay to have fried food. Of course, moderation is the key.

Here at home, we have got some gluten free bread. Unfortunately, ‘someone’ doesn’t like the taste of the bread and I understand. They definitely taste 'funny'. However, if you know me by now, you would know that I hate to waste food. So, I thought to myself, could I do something with the bread that would hide the taste and turn it into something delicious? Well, you got it … I ended up making Curry Pakora Sandwich.

I know, I know, I am quite sneaky (shhhh). You see, as a home cook, you have to be sneaky sometimes. Many moms out there would hide vegetables in foods for kids. I ended up hiding gluten free bread with curry flavoured batter and then deep fried. As such, I decided to name this sandwich The 'Sneaky' Curry Pakora Sandwich.

Oh boy, I really went all the way out to prepare this sandwich and this is going to be a long post. But I had a lot of fun in the process.

First, I prepared a home-made red pepper and tomato chutney as dipping sauce. Then, I made a vegetable mashed potato as the filling. Finally, I proceeded to assemble the sandwich and turned into Pakora sandwich. Let me lay out all the steps below:

Step 1 - Make the home-made Red Pepper and Tomato Chutney using chopped red bell peppers, tomatoes, red onion, white wine vinegar, honey, cayenne pepper, salt and pepper. Add all ingredients to a pot and bring to a boil. Reduce to a simmer and cook until thick and syrupy (about 2 hours)

Step 2 - Prepare the Veggie Mashed Potato using potatoes, carrot, green and yellow zucchini and peas. Steam potatoes and carrot. Fry green and yellow zucchini and peas. Mash all ingredients, season with salt, pepper and garlic powder and mashed by adding milk (since Pakora is deep fry, I didn’t add any oil or butter to keep it healthy). Note, I am also extra sneaky by hiding veggies in the mashed potato.

Step 3 - Assemble and fry Pakora sandwich using potato flour, water, curry powder, turmeric, and the infamous gluten free bread. Mix potato flour with water, curry powder, turmeric, salt and pepper to form a batter. Slather veggie mashed potato on bread. Form a sandwich. Dip the sandwich into the batter and fry in hot oil. You would see this glorious yellow colour as a result of the curry and turmeric.

Step 4 - Serve the Pakora with the home-made chutney. Tune into Netflix and watch a few of your favourite shows - Priceless!

Hope you enjoyed this post and happy for me that I was able to get rid of the infamous gluten free bread at home. In addition, I now have a fresh batch of chutney that I get to enjoy for the new couple of week (they go so well with goat cheese on crackers or on top of melted brie, yum).

The Pakora was a hit and ‘someone’ finished them all, but no one at home knows that they were made out of that funny tasting bread. Hehe, I’m getting such a kick out of it!