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Here’s a recipe for a sandwich I started making recently – the Mango Pickle Bacon Tomato Cucumber. The sauce is amazing (featuring Mango Pickle, a tangy and salty Indian condiment). The crispness of the toasted bread, combined with the bacon fat that is rendered into the bread, is a nice touch.

Sauce: (I didn’t measure out the ingredients, this is an estimate. Adjust to taste).

• Mayonnaise (roughly 3 tbsp)
• Dijon mustard (roughly 1 tbsp)
• Mango Pickle (roughly 2 tsp). This is a salty and tangy sauce with chunks of pickled vegetables in it. It’s available at Indian stores. I didn’t use the solids, just the sauce.
• Finely grated parmesan (roughly a few grams)

Sandwich:

1. Place 2 strips of bacon in the toaster oven at 350F.
2. After about 2 minutes, place 2 slices of bread underneath the bacon (on a lower rack – they shouldn’t touch the bacon). The bread will catch bacon drippings. You don’t want to put the bread in too early, or it will dry out too much.
3. Wait until the bacon is the desired doneness (took about 10-12 minutes total for it to get lightly crispy in my convection toaster oven. Non-convection ovens will be slower).
4. Remove bacon and bacony-toast™ from the toaster oven. Layer bacon, tomato, onion, and thinly sliced cucumber on one slice of bread. Add sauce to other slice, and put it on the first slice. You know… like, how people make sandwiches.

I don’t have a picture because once I took a bite, I ate the whole thing without putting it down.