I love getting e-mails
(comments) and messages from my readers and blogger friends. I especially love
those e-mails telling me that they tried one of my recipes and found it to be
delectable.
Today's dish is one of
the simplest sandwich recipes you can find. Passed down to me by my mama, this
dish is sure to get onto your list of "Simplest Recipes". No creamy
cheesy filling, no extravagant ingredients, just pure hazzle-free sammies full
of flavour. They are packed with tender shredded chicken breasts, sweet browned
onions, ripe juicy tomatoes and spiced with a little green chillies and pepper.
I love all day meals,
and sandwiches, I believe, fall in that category. This is a really simple dish
which can be prepared in a few minutes. All you need is a little chicken and
some bread! Don't you love dishes with just 4 to 5 ingredients?! I
absolutely adore them and I'm always ready to make them at anytime. This
is an absolute life saver when you have unexpected guests or when laziness
creeps up to you!
Kids will definitely
enjoy this treat. I have seen so many parents struggling to feed their little
ones and I think this dish will be a good idea and you can enjoy seeing them
devour it in minutes! Now, won't that be a pretty pretty sight?!! :)
If you are avid picnic
goers and are not one of those extravagant picnic packers, these yum chicken
sammies will make a perfect dish to go into your picnic baskets. A warm sunny
Saturday afternoon with loaded backpacks on mountain bikes, heading off for the
afternoon to one of your favourite spots, these sandwiches will be devoured in
a jiffy!
You can always be
creative with the filling like using vegetables, egg, beef, lamb and chicken. I
will try posting some more similar recipes with different fillings in later
posts. You could also serve this up as simple wraps instead of sandwiches.
Today, I have for you Mama's home-style chicken sandwiches. And what's
better? This dish uses very less oil. Less oil, less fatty! And
I think healthy eating is so important these days with changing lifestyles.
I prepare these
sandwiches quite often but have always failed to take pictures because they
were gone before I was able to take pictures! Today, however, I managed a few
though and I hope you enjoy them as much we did!
Enjoy these with a
bowl of piping hot creamy
onion soup, chicken
soup, spicy
pumpkin soup or any soup of your choice. Happy cooking and happy
eating!
Ingredients
Chicken breast (cut
into cubes) - 250 gms (refer notes)
Green chilli - 1
Pepper - 2 tsp
Salt - to taste
Big Onion - 2 (medium)
Tomato (finely
chopped) - 1 (medium)
Chicken stock - 3 to 4
tbsp
Bread slices - 8 to 10
Oil
Method
Take a pressure cooker
and add chicken pieces along with a pinch of salt and pepper and a little water
into it. Cover and cook till chicken is tender and juicy. Remove the
stock/liquid (you can use this as stock that has to be added later into it) and
keep aside. Shred the chicken pieces and keep aside.
Heat oil in a pan and
add green chilli and onions and saut'e till onion reduces and turns golden
brown. Add finely chopped tomato and saut'e for a few minutes till tomato
becomes soft. Add the shredded chicken along with pepper and salt and saut'e
for a few minutes. Now add chicken stock and stir on medium flame for a few
minutes till all the liquid evaporates. Once done, switch off flame and keep
aside.
Lightly butter the
bread slices and toast them on the griddle or a frying pan. Place the chicken
filling on top. Keep warm in a pre-heated oven. (refer notes)
Serve warm.
Notes:
1. If you don’t have
boneless chicken breasts, don’t worry, you can use chicken with bones. But
remember to shred the chicken off the bone. Either way, it tastes the same.
2. It isn’t necessary
to place the sandwiches in the oven, you can serve it straight from the stove
too.
absolute firecracker! Really tasty and easy :-) just follow the recipe and enjoy the sammies. Had to be a mom's cooking!
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Anjali so happy you liked it.
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