Stupid Easy Chicken Roast Sandwich
For those leftovers that need some love
Equipment
- Bread Knife
- Salad Spinner (optional)
Ingredients
- Leftover Chicken
- 2 slices sourdough bread
- Handful salad leaves
- 1 small orange or red bell epper
- 1 tsp mayonnaise
- Few drops Hot Sauce optional
Instructions
- First things first, take the chicken out of the fridge 10 minutes before you start to get it to room temperature - this will allow the meat to get back part of its flavour while still being cool. If it's still to carve, make sure to slice it.Optional: you can always quickly reheat the chicken if that's your preference. However, you don't want the chicken to be too hot as that will make your salad leaves mushy, and there's nothing worse than mushy salad.
- Now get that sourdough loaf and slice it: depending on how much chicken you have left and how hungry are you, you might want to make multiple sandwiches (we're all about those carbs). If you have fresh bread, great. If you don't, pop it into the toaster for a bit: you don't want to toast it properly, just long enough to get the slices nice and crunchy. You can use whatever bread you have of course, but sourdough is the best choice (I always say that but it's true).
- While the bread is toasting and the chicken is out of the fridge, let's focus on the salad leaves. Give it a nice wash and make sure to either spin them or dry them with a paper towel. Nothing worse than a damp slice of bread in the name of food hygiene.Same thing with the bell pepper - wash it, dry it, slice it. Make sure that all the seeds are out.
- Assemble a sandwich is no rocket science, but a few indications on what to put first can always come in handy: first, spread some mayo on those slices and add a few drops of hot sauce on top of that if you're using it. Then move to the salad: put that on one of the slices, it'll make the bed for the chicken that you sliced earlier and that you can now put on top. Finally, the peppers, and the other slice of bread on top. Secure it with a toothpick to hold everything in place.
Notes
In the ingredients, I added the hot sauce as optional. But truth be told, everything is optional and interchangeable depending on what you have for this recipe. Not a fan of mayonnaise? Not a problem. Want to try and add some brown sauce to that? Be my guest. The world is your oyster! (Which is not recommended as an extra on this sandwich...)