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Well here is the recipe

Here’s how you jazz up the coarsly mashed potatoes, desi style!

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* 1 cup coarsely mashed potatoes
* 1 small shallot, finely minced
* 1 small tomato, finely chopped
* 1 garlic clove, finely minced
* 1 1/4″ inch ginger, finely minced
* 1 tsp coriander powder
* 1 tsp chat masala (I used MDH)
* 2 tbsp chopped cilantro
* 1 tbsp chopped mint
* 1 tsp extra virgin olive oil

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* One small saucepan for the potatoes

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* Put a small saucepan on medium-high heat. Add the oil.
* Add the shallots, garlic and ginger, fry until translucent.
* Add the chopped tomatoes, cook until they are slightly soft.
* Add the mashed potatoes, the coriander powder, chat masala, salt. Stir until everything is blended and mixed together and heated through. Turn off the heat.
* Add the cilantro and the mint. Mix.

Preparing the paninis

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* 5-6 baby spinach leaves
* 1 cup of shredded cheese or small chese slices (I used what I had on hand - a mix of montery jack and pepper jack)

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* One large skillet/grill pan
* One small skillet
* One heavy object (read the method below)

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* Cut the french bread into about about 1/2″ thick slices. The french bread I used was not crusty so I toasted it on both sides on a grill pan so it became a little crunchy and lost the “softness”.
* Build a sandwich - take one french bread slice put some cheese, a couple of baby spinach leaves, some of the potato mixture and cheese in that order. Top the slice with another french bread slice.

* Now carefully put that sandwich on a greased skillet/grill pan (I used a grill pan), put a smaller skillet over on top of the sandwich, and put a heavy object on the smaller skillet so it weighs the sandwich down completely - recommendations are foil covered brick, a huge flour/sugar sack, some canned food etc. I used a big flour container I had.
* Cook for about 1-2 minutes then turn the sandwich on its other side and repeat!

Enjoy them as is or cut the sandwich into 4 pieces so they were bite sized. I did the latter.

A desi according to me is someone is from his or her daysh so if u really look at it we are all desi’s because we all belong to a daysh. A lot of us are confused desi’s since we hold more then one citizenship but that is a topic for another post.