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I had written the following article for Xpressions (e-mag at HTSL). Earlier I was a bit concerned putting the same thing here, but then I read the disclaimer ;-).

Disclaimer: Like I care...

Well, I do not agree with most of the viewpoints mentioned in the Peek-a-boo about "Guys'n'cooking", which I'm sure was written by a hard-core feminist female.

Guys are experts in whatever they do. And when it comes to cooking, they are no different. Here is one example. I call it by numerous names - besan bread, tawa bread, "bread" sandwich (a "vegetable" sandwich has bread slices sandwiching the vegetables; here it's the other way round) - so call it whatever you want. A real quick thing (well, not so quick considering boys have much less time to cook than girls who can cook 5 dishes in 20 minutes but take 5 hours to get ready for a 20 minute coffee).

Anyway, so considering the format of the recipes listed till date in Xpressions, I should mention ingredients with each measure correct to the milligram (must be girls writing them, isn't it). But in the true manly style, I just put however much of whatever is listed below (mostly depending on my mood).

Ingredients:
Bread, Besan (gram flour), Onions, Tomatoes, Cucumber, Capsicum, Spinach (essentially any vegetable that you can eat semi-cooked);
Water, Oil, Salt, Green chilies, red chili powder (and other "obvious" - as claimed by most females - stuff like that).

Method:
Mix besan with salt, red chili powder, and water to make a semi-liquid of viscosity approximately 14.971 Pascal seconds (never mind, just see if it is sticky yet flowing). Add all the chopped vegetables (you have to chop it, "of course!" - again a female statement).

On a pan (tawa; preferably non-stick), put some oil (for girls - few table spoons; for guys - never mind) and let it heat up (for guys only - come on!!! you had to light the gas!!!).
Now take a slice of bread (obviously, you won't be using the whole loaf), dip it the mix, make sure you carry along some vegetables on one side of the bread slice and put that side down (for guys - carefully) on the pan. May add a little more oil (for guys - 1.5 table spoons). Now on the other side, add some of the mix so that it's kinda uniform on both sides. After sometime (for guys - you have to be a little psychic to know when the other side, which is not visible, is cooked and not burning; girls are psychic anyways) turn it over so that the other side gets cooked as well.

And it's done.

By the way, my "female" friend told me that the first time you put the tawa on the gas, whatever you're cooking on it sticks anyway (whether it is non-stick or not). The next time, it gets heated and so it doesn't. Silly isn't it, irrespective of what temperature the gas is on; must be some girl-thing.

Tips for a better taste:
- make sure that you're drinking beer while cooking it and that you spill it unknowingly into the besan mix instead of water. Smoking as well - cigarette ash adds a good flavor to it.
- make sure that you eat it while you're cooking with ketchup and beer.
- make sure that you enter the kitchen when it is in its cleanest state and you leave it in its still cleaner state (I know all the guys get the meaning)
- make sure that you waste enough gas (my "female" friend will not agree with that, she has to cook the entire thing on a "sim" flame; and while we're at it, what the heck is sim, why can't they just write low flame, high flame and off flame uhhhhh)
- burping while you're eating triples the taste
- make sure you... well; the guys are smart enough to do anything anyway.

If you're a guy, and you've reached till here, you're probably a great cook already. So you don't need this recipe.
If you're a guy, and have jumped to the end after reading the title/first Para, please click the "Info desk" to know the numbers of pizza guys and order some.
If you're a girl, apart from that the spam-mail cliche that girls don't listen applies to you, you now also suffer from an unprecedented hatred for me. So please read the disclaimer again.
Others pick any one of the above conditions.