Vegetarian Sesame Toast is an Indo-Chinese snack made with bread slices topped with a spiced vegetable mixture and sesame seeds. The prepared toasts are shallow fried until crisp and golden. The texture is crunchy on the outside with a soft vegetable layer inside. It can be served as a snack or starter.

Recipe Snapshot

  • Prep time: 40 minutes
  • Cook time: 30 minutes
  • Total time: 70 minutes
  • Yield: 2
  • Category: Breakfast, Snacks
  • Cuisine: Indo Chinese

Ingredients

  • ½ cup or 1 small to medium carrot (– parboiled & finely chopped)
  • ¼ cup or 8 to 10 french beans (– parboiled & finely chopped)
  • 1 medium potato (– boiled or about ½ cup of mashed potato)
  • ¼ cup or 1 small capsicum (– finely chopped (green bell pepper))
  • ¼ cup or 1 small to medium onion (– finely chopped)
  • 1 teaspoon celery (– chopped, or use coriander leaves)
  • 1 green chilli (– finely chopped)
  • 1 inch ginger (– peeled and finely chopped)
  • 2 to 3 garlic cloves (– small to medium-sized, peeled and finely chopped)
  • 1 tablespoon cornstarch ((cornflour))
  • ½ tablespoon soy sauce (or as required, preferably use naturally fermented soy sauce)
  • 2 to 3 tablespoon white sesame seeds (or as required)
  • salt (as required)
  • black pepper (as required)
  • 3 tablespoons cornstarch ((cornflour))
  • 2 to 3 tablespoons water
  • 4 to 5 slices bread (– white bread, brown bread or whole wheat)
  • oil (– as needed for shallow frying or deep frying)

Method

Making filling

  1. Boil the potato and then mash it. Parboil the carrots and beans. Finely chop them also.
  2. Also finely chop the onions, capsicum, celery or coriander, ginger, garlic and green chili.
  3. In a bowl, mix the mashed potatoes, finely chopped carrot, beans, capsicum, onion, celery or coriander, ginger,garlic, green chili, cornstarch, soy sauce, salt and black pepper really well.
  4. Let this mixture cool completely.
  5. Mix and prepare the cornstarch paste by mixing the corn starch and water in a small bowl. Set aside.

Making sesame toast

  1. Cut the bread into rectangular or triangle or small shaped squares or even round shape with a cookie cutter.
  2. Spread the veggie filling evenly. Press it lightly so that the filling sticks to the bread.
  3. You can also first spread the cornflour paste on the bread and then spread the veggie filling.
  4. Then spread or brush the prepared cornflour paste on it. Sprinkle the sesame seeds liberally over the paste. Press lightly so that they don't fall off.
  5. Heat oil for shallow frying or deep frying. Slid the bread slices upside down with the filling side at the bottom, in medium hot oil.
  6. When this side gets browned, turn and cook the other side. You can flip once or twice to get a uniform golden color.
  7. Fry the bread slices till crisp golden. Place the fried bread slices on paper towels for extra oil
  8. Then slice them if you want & serve sesame toast hot with tomato sauce or chili sauce or schezwan sauce.

Kiyaan Singh’s Kitchen Note

Keep this recipe as a working base: cook once as written, then adjust spice, texture, and serving style for your own table.