What would you like to have: sandwich, cutlets or both???…
Need a break from the usual chicken or turkey or beef sandwich? Try this protein rich and healthy vegetarian sandwich. It’s good to be a vegetarian at least once in a while.
Yesterday, after a heavy Easter lunch, one thing I was damn sure about was skipping the dinner. To burn all the calories, in the evening my husband and I went for power walking and running over the Pedestrian bridge. It was such a beautiful evening and we ran and walked for almost 2 hours. We felt really healthy and revitalized. As I had burned some calories, I felt I should have a simple salad for dinner. But, when I entered into my kitchen, I got attracted to the chickpea cans in my pantry. I couldn’t resist the chick peas, and ended up making a cutlet out of chickpeas and spinach. I just blindly added few ingredients and was pretty impressed by the outcome. I made a sandwich with this cutlet, also ate couple of the cutlets just as it was.
I had some leftover mashed potatoes from Saturday’s BBQ party, hence I smeared the sandwich bread with the leftover mashed potatoes. Placed the Chickpea and Spinach Cutlet between the breads and the next thing I did was open my mouth wide and took a huge bite of the sandwich.
Chickpea-Spinach Sandwich and Cutlets
Ingredients:
- Chickpeas, canned- 1 can
- Green onions, chopped- 1/4 cup
- Fresh spinach leaves, rinsed- 1 cup
- Cumin powder- 1 tsp
- Chili powder- 3/4 tsp
- Bread crumbs- 1/4 cup
- Ground pepper- 1/4 tsp
- Salt- to taste
- Yogurt, thick- 2 tbsp
Instruction:
- Rinse the canned chickpeas under running water.
- Place the chickpeas, green onions, cumin powder, chili powder, ground pepper and salt in a blender or food processor and coarsely ground it.
- Transfer the ground mixture into a bowl.
- Also, coarsely ground fresh spinach leaves separately.
- Combine the ground chickpeas with the coarsely ground spinach.
- Add the bread crumbs and yogurt to the mixture and combine well.
- Taste and adjust the spice and salt according to your needs.
- Make medium sized patties out of the ground mixture.
- Heat a non-stick pan over medium heat, spray the pan with olive oil cooking spray.
- Place the patties on the pan and cook both sides until golden brown.
- If the patties are too moist, add more of the bread crumbs to make it less moist.
Building the sandwich:
- Toast the slices of bread. I used rye bread.
- Smear the slices of bread with mayonnaise. I smeared with mashed potatoes.
- Place the chickpea and spinach cutlet between the slices of bread, also place few spinach leaves on the bread and close the slices of bread.
- Next, open up your mouth and have a huge bite of this healthy sandwich.
Tips:
- Don’t make the chickpea-spinach mixture too moist, add more of the bread crumbs if it’s moist.
- You could substitute an egg for yogurt.
- Enjoy the cutlets with tomato ketchup.
- Chickpeas, canned- 1 can
- Green onions, chopped- ¼ cup
- Fresh spinach leaves, rinsed- 1 cup
- Cumin powder- 1 tsp
- Chili powder- ¾ tsp
- Bread crumbs- ¼ cup
- Ground pepper- ¼ tsp
- Salt- to taste
- Yogurt, thick- 2 tbsp
- Rinse the canned chickpeas under running water.
- Place the chickpeas, green onions, cumin powder, chili powder, ground pepper and salt in a blender or food processor and coarsely ground it.
- Transfer the ground mixture into a bowl.
- Also, coarsely ground fresh spinach leaves separately.
- Combine the ground chickpeas with the coarsely ground spinach.
- Add the bread crumbs and yogurt to the mixture and combine well.
- Taste and adjust the spice and salt according to your needs.
- Make medium sized patties out of the ground mixture.
- Heat a non-stick pan over medium heat, spray the pan with olive oil cooking spray.
- Place the patties on the pan and cook both sides until golden brown.
- If the patties are too moist, add more of the bread crumbs to make it less moist.
- Toast the sandwich bread slices. I used rye bread.
- Smear the bread with mayonnaise. I had leftover mashed potatoes, so used that.
- Place the chickpea and spinach cutlet between the slices of bread, also place few spinach leaves on the bread and close the slices of bread.
- Next, open up your mouth and have a huge bite of this healthy sandwich.
You could substitute an egg for yogurt.
Enjoy the cutlets with tomato ketchup.