1 Indian dish makes it to the World's 294 Most Iconic Sandwiches list

When it comes to easy-to-make breakfast dishes, sandwiches are often considered as one of the best deals. They areno just easy but dynamic too. One can easily tweak the stuffing as per taste and nutritional needs. Sandwich as a dish, consists of a minium of two slices of bread that are stuffed with a popular filing ranging from vegetables, cheese, eggs, meat, spreads, or a combination of ingredients.hey are commonly enjoyed as a quick breakfast, lunch, snack, or light meal. Celebrating the dish, Taste Atlas recently released a list of World's Most Iconic Sandwiches, which consists of 294 dishes. Among these dishes, there is a proud moment for India, as one of the most popular street snack of India is listed too. Scroll down to find the details. Vada Pav: Ranked at 30th position, it is one of Mumbai's favorite sandwiches, its name referring to the key ingredients: vada, or spicy mashed potatoes that are deep-fried in chickpea batter, and pav, or white bread rolls. This iconic street food is said to have originated from a street vendor named Ashok Vaidya, who worked near the Dadar train station in the 1960s and 1970s. According to the Taste Atlas website, he thought of a way to satiate the hungry workers, and concluded that the ideal dish should be portable, affordable, and easy to prepare. Ashok made vada pav, and its popularity skyrocketed, especially after the Shiv Sena, a Marathi-Hindu nationalist political party, started to promote the sandwich as an ideal working class snack. Today, the sandwich is sold throughout Mumbai, both on street stands and in elegant restaurants, ideally accompanied by a hot red chutney with coconut, peanuts, garlic, tamarind, and chiles. Tombik Döner of Turkiye is ranked number 1 and is a variety of döner kebab where the shredded meat is stuffed in a bun-shaped flatbread known as pide ekmek. The bread has a crispy exterior and a soft interior. This dish is typically served with additional ingredients, depending on the customer's choice, such as tomatoes, onions, lettuce, or other assorted vegetables and sauces. And at 100th position, they have Bocadillo de lomo of Spain. It is a Spanish sandwich that consists of bread filled with pork tenderloin. A Spanish-style baguette (barra de pan), mollete, or ciabatta is typically sliced in half lengthwise, and it is then often toasted or grilled for added crunchiness. Both sides of the bread are usually rubbed with ripe tomato halves and garlic cloves on the inside, and the sandwich’s filling can be enhanced with the addition of cheese, tomato slices, peppers, onions, or even slices of Spanish tortilla (potato omelet). IngredientsFor the potato filling: 4 medium boiled potatoes, 1 tbsp oil, 1 tsp mustard seeds, 8–10 curry leaves, 2 green chilies, 1 tsp grated ginger, 1/2 tsp turmeric powder, salt to taste, and 2 tbsp coriander leavesFor the batter: 1 cup gram flour, ¼ tsp turmeric powder, a pinch of baking soda, salt to taste, and water as requiredFor serving: 6 pav, garlic chutney, and fried green chiliesMethodTo begin with, heat oil in a pan and add mustard seeds. Once they splutter, add curry leaves, green chilies, ginger, and turmeric. To this, add the boiled and mashed potatoes and salt. Mix well and cook for 2–3 minutes. Stir in coriander leaves and let the mixture cool. Divide the mixture into equal portions and shape them into balls and dunk in the slurry made with besan, turmeric, baking soda, salt, and water. Make sure that the besan mixture is of coating consistency. Deep fry these balls and until golden brown and crispy. Now, slice the pav horizontally and spread garlic chutney on the inside. Place a hot vada inside each pav and serve with fried green chilies.Images courtesy: istock