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🍽️ Spicy Pastrami Toast with Homemade Tomato Relish

485 kcal · 30 min · 4 servings

Ingredients

• 800 g green tomatoes
• 2 onions
• 1 garlic clove
• 2 cm fresh ginger
• 1 green chili pepper
• 1 pinch ground coriander
• 80 ml fruit vinegar
• 100 g sugar
• 120 ml orange juice
• 1 pinch salt
• 50 g mixed herbs (e.g. parsley, chervil, thyme, dill)
• 1 lettuce heart
• 3 tomatoes
• 8 slices toast bread
• 300 g pastrami

Instructions

1. 1. Pour boiling water over the tomatoes.
2. 2. Shock the tomatoes immediately with cold water.
3. 3. Peel the skin off the tomatoes.
4. 4. Cut the tomatoes into quarters.
5. 5. Break the tomato quarters into coarse chunks.
6. 6. Peel the onion.
7. 7. Peel the garlic.
8. 8. Peel the ginger.
9. 9. Dice the onion, garlic, and ginger into small cubes.
10. 10. Wash the chili pepper.
11. 11. Cut the chili in half lengthwise.
12. 12. Slice the chili halves into thin rings.
13. 13. Mix the diced onion, garlic, and ginger with the chili rings.
14. 14. Add the coarse tomato chunks to the mixture.
15. 15. Add the coriander to the bowl.
16. 16. Add the vinegar to the bowl.
17. 17. Add the sugar to the bowl.
18. 18. Add the orange juice to the bowl.
19. 19. Season the mixture with salt.
20. 20. Mix all ingredients thoroughly.
21. 21. Transfer the relish mixture into a pot.
22. 22. Place the pot over medium heat.
23. 23. Simmer the relish for one hour.
24. 24. Stir the relish repeatedly while cooking.
25. 25. Remove the pot from the heat when the time is up.
26. 26. Let the finished relish cool down.
27. 27. Wash the herbs.
28. 28. Spin the herbs dry.
29. 29. Pluck the leaves off the herb stems.
30. 30. Separate the leaves from the lettuce head.
31. 31. Wash the lettuce leaves.
32. 32. Remove hard stems or damaged parts from the lettuce (clean).
33. 33. Shake the lettuce dry.
34. 34. Wash the tomatoes for the slices.
35. 35. Remove the stem core from the tomatoes.
36. 36. Slice the tomatoes.
37. 37. Toast the bread slices.
38. 38. Remove the crust from the toast slices.
39. 39. Place the toast slices side by side on the work surface.
40. 40. Spread the cooled relish onto the toast slices.
41. 41. Distribute the tomato slices on half of the toast slices.
42. 42. Place the meat on top of the tomato slices.
43. 43. Add the lettuce on top of the meat.
44. 44. Add the herbs on top of the lettuce.
45. 45. Cover the filled toast slices with the remaining toast slices.
46. 46. Secure the sandwiches with a wooden skewer.
47. 47. Serve the toasts.

Nutrition per serving

• kcal: 485
• Protein: 28 g · Fett/Fat: 18 g · Carbs: 52 g