Baked Mushroom Sandwich

A rainy evening, a lazy and stressed out mommy after a long day’s work who decided to pass the cooking buck to him, a pack of recently bought succulent mushrooms, a packet of bread, and an oven. Flash popped an idea. He spruced up and put his gray cells to work. Thus born the recipe of baked mushroom sandwich.

Ingredients

Bread slices
Mushroom
Boiled sprouts
Capsicum (any color)
Onion
Tomatoes
Garlic
Green chillies
Coarsely powdered pepper
Butter
Olive oil

Heat olive oil in a kadai. Add salt, pepper and finely chopped garlic, onions, capsicum, part of the tomatoes and sauté for a min till the typical olive oil-garlic-onion-pepper smell comes. Turn off the flame and immediately add a dollop of butter (we want the butter to melt not clarify). Let this cool for 3-4 minutes.

In a bowl, put in the sliced mushrooms and thrown in the sprouts as well. Add the mixture that is relatively cool now to the bowl and toss well. We want it all over the mushroom. You can sprinkle more pepper at this point if u like the raw taste. Hold one or 2 green chillies in a chimta (tongs for chappati) over a flame till you hear some crackling. Chop the green chilles and toss it with the mushroom. Meanwhile preheat your oven to 200 Degrees Celsius. Take a greased baking dish (with butter or olive oil) and line the bottom with bread slices. Add the mushroom salad and make a layer (you could alternatively do another layer of bread and salad as well. If the dish is deep enough) cut just one or 2 cheese slices into narrow slices and put it on top (grated cheese is another option if u like a lot of cheese) the rest of the chopped tomatoes go on top of this (this is optional if u like the red color) and bake at 180 degrees for 15-20 minutes.

Your baked mushroom sandwich is ready to eat!!

Let your neighbors go green with envy while you eat the aromatic baked mushroom sandwich.

PS: The picture has suggested garnishing (sauce).