Bombay's Ultimate Triple Decker grilled sandwich

What happens when a kitchen newbie take over for half a day ?

Breakfast is served at 11, three pans are needed for boiling and peeling potatoes, another seven bowls are fished out for cheese, tomato and onion, butter & cheese is used with gay abandon but all is happily overlooked when wicked cheese sandwiches replace the usual angelic cereal and cold milk.

This is what happened in our little kitch today when Prashant after getting pestered by me to make breakfast whipped up a truly scrumtious grilled sandwich, just like we used to eat ever so often at a little fast food joint near Breach candy, called 'The Right Place', during our bombay days.

Somehow, I can never manage to get this sandwich to taste like the real thing, not only am I too wimpish when it comes to cheese and butter, I am also too lazy to gather all the stuff that goes into it, willing to substitute , or do without whatever's unavailable. On the other hand, Prashant happily butters the slices and tosses in shredded cheese with as much nonchalance as The Right Place sandwich 'bhaiyas', and also diligently tracks down all the delightful stuffings like simla mirch (yellow peppers don't have the same zing!) and Amul butter that are characteristic of the real Mc Coy. Therefore, my demands of going easy on the butter & cheese is met with a reaction not unlike that of the bhaiyas at Right Place who would throw me a disdainful look when I made such odd requests !

Here's Prashant's fully loaded, perfect grilled sandwich, which together with a tall glass of ice tea makes our yummy sunday brunch.

all we need is :

white sandwich bread 6 slices
1 firm tomato, sliced
1 onion, sliced into rings
1 medium boiled potato, mashed with salt/chaat masala
1 small capsicum, sliced
75g cheddar cheese
butter
chaat masala/salt & pepper

Method:
Butter the bread slices on one side, (at Right Place, obviously both sides have to be buttered, after all, 50 rupey ka sandwich hai!). slather some green chutney over the butter, spread potato and onion on one slice and capsicum & tomato on the other. Toss some shredded cheese on both.With the first slice as base, place the second one on top, veggie side up. Top with the third slice, with the chutney side pressing down on the veggies/cheese. PAM spray both sides of the sandwich maker (use the grill attachment), and grill till crispy and golden brown. No sanwich maker ? No problem, just cook it on a hot tawa using PAM/oil/butter till nicely done. Take it one level higher by serving with some xtra zingy ketchup, :p created by the jugalbandi duo

Off this goes to the sandwich festival hosted by Anupama.

Janki has a lovely post on the "breach candy sandwiches", as they are called in Bombay, with a step by step pictorial guide to making them. She concludes by declaring it No.1 Bombay food ! Do check out her illustrated guide to these sandwiches here.