Steemit Sandwich Contest Week # 8 (Spinach Theme Sandwich – 1st Entry): Gluten Free Spinach Open Face Sandwich

The other day, a Steemit blogger ( @voder ) commented on one of my posts to share that his brother-in-law had a cholesterol level that kept him out of a job. He decided to make a spinach and pineapple smoothie with almond milk for breakfast every morning. In six weeks he cleared their test.

After reading his comment, I am amazed with how our diet could do wonder to our health! It is for this reason, I did not hesitate to pick spinach as the main ingredient for all my sandwiches this week. And, for my first sandwich entry, I wanted to make an open face breakfast sandwich using spinach.

There is no doubt that the best way to start our day is to have a nutritious and yummy breakfast. It helps to set the right tone for the rest of the day. Further, it gives you the energy required to tackle the day too.

This sandwich is also gluten free and therefore suitable to those who have special dietary need. I actually used spinach and egg to create the ‘bread’ for this sandwich. I have done something similar before with other ingredient but I found that spinach is even better as it gives such a vibrant and intense green colour, which definitely enhances the look of the sandwich.

One tip to share is that prepare the spreads, chopped vegetable or even the ‘bread’ ahead of time so that you do not have to rush in the morning. Here is how I made this Gluten Free Spinach Open Face Sandwich:

Step 1 – The spreads

I wanted to have some tasty spreads to slather on top of the sandwich. Therefore, I started by making two different types of spread – The Black Bean Hummus and The ‘Italian’ Hummus (An Italian family taught me how to make it, hence, the naming convention).

For the Italian Hummus, I blended chickpea with chicken stock, garlic, parmesan, lemon juice, salt and pepper.

For the Black Bean Hummus, I started with black bean in the blender, then added olive oil, tahini paste, water, cumin, paprika, salt and pepper.

Step 2 - The ‘bread’

Add fresh spinach (please use organic if possible) and egg into the blender. At the end, you would yield a green mixture (check out the intense green colour). Pour the mixture on top of oiled parchment paper and baked in the oven. It would turn into a taco-liked ‘bread’

Step 3 – Assemble the open face sandwich

I layered tons of home-made spreads on top of the spinach ‘bread’, added some fresh tomato and more chopped spinach. I finished it off with crispy eggs and seasoned with salt.

Really, how hard is it to eat healthy?! Let’s start taking good care of ourselves and please give this open face sandwich a try.

Life is about moderation and if we could eat clean for just one day a week, I think we would benefit from it tremendously.

What do you think?

P.S. Just to show you how versatile this spinach egg taco bread is! You could use it to make a wrap too (see photo below)