Padma's Gunpowder Cottage Cheese Toast

This recipe is quick, easy, and perfect for brunch or a protein-packed snack. The cool cottage cheese and cucumbers make this perfect for the summer, but you could swap out the cucumbers for any seasonal vegetable. The gunpowder gets sprinkled generously atop the toast at the end but is also mixed into softened butter and slathered onto the toast first.

Pro tip: make some extra gunpowder butter and stash in the fridge for the next few days!

Ingredients

INGREDIENTS:

1½ tbsp butter, softened
1½ tbsp Padma Lakshmi's Gunpowder, plus ½ tsp Gunpowder for garnish
1 Persian cucumber, sliced into thin rounds
1 slice of sourdough bread, toasted
⅓ cup cottage cheese
Pinch of salt

Methods

Mix together the softened butter and Gunpowder until completely combined into a compound butter.
Spread the compound butter evenly onto well-toasted sourdough bread.
Spread a thick layer of cottage cheese onto the toast.
Layer thinly-sliced cucumbers over the cottage cheese.
Sprinkle a pinch of sale over the cucumbers, and dust with more Gunpowder, making sure to get the bigger bits of nutty lentils, to taste for extra spice and crunch!