Quickie Chicken Sandwich
Well as the name above suggest this will be a QUICK one.
I really did not feel like making lunch yesterday but I was hungry and I had to eat. I came into the house at 1.03 by 1.20 I was eating. I made two sandwiches using small slices of brioche bread and a small 130 gram piece of chicken breast I thought id be able to finish it all but I only managed to go through about 1.25 of it.
OOH you can add your own twist to this, add some bacon, an egg, ham, cheese, pineapple. ANYTHING you like. HAPPY COOKING!!
Well here goes.
You will need
- 130 gram chicken breast ( or a half of the chicken breast)
- 1 ½ teaspoon garlic
- 1 small onion
- 2 leaves of lettuce, sliced
- ½ tomato, diced
- 1 teaspoon light mayonnaise
- 4 slices of bread
- A little butter ( I used a teaspoon)
- 1 teaspoon of oil
- Salt and pepper to taste
Method
- Slice your breast to create a butterfly. Pound it down with a meat mallet or rolling pin. Smear 1 teaspoon garlic and some salt and pepper. Let it rest as you make your bread
2. Apply the butter on one side of the bread and toast it on a pan till brown and place on a plate
3. Put a ½ teaspoon on oil in the pan and sear your chicken breast for about 4 mins on each side till cooked through. Place on top of the bread
5. As the chicken cooks, put the lettuce, tomato and mayonnaise in a bowl put in a little salt and black pepper and mix well.
6. Once the chicken is cooked add the remaining ½ teaspoon of oil and the onions, let it cook for about 2 mins, add the remaining ½ teaspoon of garlic and some chilli flakes if you like. Cook for a further 1 min. and you’re done.
7. Now to assemble. Place your bread first, then the chicken, then the onions then the lettuce mixture and top with bread, VIOLA. Quickie lunch. HAPPY EATING
Ingredients
- 130 gram chicken breast ( or a half of the chicken breast)
- 1 ½ teaspoon garlic
- 1 small onion
- 2 leaves of lettuce, sliced
- ½ tomato, diced
- 1 teaspoon light mayonnaise
- 4 slices of bread A little butter ( I used a teaspoon)
- 1 teaspoon of oil Salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
Slice your breast to create a butterfly. Pound it down with a meat mallet or rolling pin. Smear 1 teaspoon garlic and some salt and pepper. Let it rest as you make your bread
Apply the butter on one side of the bread and toast it on a pan till brown and place on a plate
Put a ½ teaspoon on oil in the pan and sear your chicken breast for about 4 mins on each side till cooked through. Place on top of the bread
As the chicken cooks, put the lettuce, tomato and mayonnaise in a bowl put in a little salt and black pepper and mix well.
Once the chicken is cooked add the remaining ½ teaspoon of oil and the onions, let it cook for about 2 mins, add the remaining ½ teaspoon of garlic and some chilli flakes if you like. Cook for a further 1 min. and you’re done.
Now to assemble. Place your bread first, then the chicken, then the onions then the lettuce mixture and top with bread, VIOLA. Quickie lunch. HAPPY EATING
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Foodie Penpals
So when I was going through food blogs yesterday I run into a post by a cake blogger (don’t remember the name) talking about Foodie Penpals. I got very interested on what it was all about so I read the post.So the program is currently running in the UK, Canada and Europe called. The program is sort of like the whole penpal thing of writing letters only that instead of sending letters you send food and recipes.
The program was started by linsday who blogs at The lean green bean. she started in September 2011 with just 30 participants and has grown to have over 1300 participants, 200 in UK and there is ablogger who just started it in South Africa as well.
I would love to start this in Kenya through the lady who started the program as I think its a brilliant idea for bloggers to meet each other and for readers to meet bloggers and generally increase our blogging networks. So, I need a people who are interested to start with, you don’t have to be a food blogger to join in.
The Rules are :
-On the 5th of the month, you will receive your penpal pairing via email. It will be your responsibility to contact your penpal and get their mailing address and any other information you might need like allergies or dietary restrictions.
-You will have until the 15th of the month to put your box of goodies in the mail. On the last day of the month, you will post about the goodies you received from your penpal!
-The boxes are to be filled with fun foodie things, local food items or even homemade treats! The spending limit is Ksh.1500. The box must also include something written. This can be anything from a note explaining what’s in the box, to a fun recipe…use your imagination!
-You are responsible for figuring out the best way to ship your items depending on their size and how fragile they are.
-Foodie Penpals is open to blog readers as well as bloggers. If you’re a reader and you get paired with a blogger, you can choose to write a short guest post for your penpal to post on their blog about what you received. If two readers are paired together, neither needs to worry about writing a post for that month.
If your interested please email me on foodiepenpal@africankaya.com
Pork Stir Fried with Sugar Snap Peas
I love pork and all its products but unfortunately its not that healthy. Now I have been seeing sugar snap peas in many recipes out there and I had never tried making these neither have I ever eaten them so last time I was at City Park Market I asked around for them. Turns out they are a lot like snow peas only that they have larger “peas” inside them so they are not as flat. So I bought a small bunch of them and when I was making pork I decided to add them in so as to make the meal healthier 🙂
I enjoyed the flavour of the pork, slightly hot and sweet and the peas were nice. Different but tasty. I think they mostly take the flavour of whatever it is you have cooked. I hope you will like it. Oooh I adopted this recipe from the Gatronomes Guide and the Haffington post. HAPPY COOKING!!
Ingredients
- 500 grams lean pork steak, cut into thin strips
- 400grams sugar snap peas
- 4 spring onions cut into 2 centimetre pieces
- 1 tablespoon minced garlic
- 2 teaspoons minced ginger
- 1 small red chilli
- 1 small bunch of dhania
- cornstarch or all purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon soy sauce
- 1 tablespoon brown sugar or honey
- 1 teaspoon fish sauce
- 1 teaspoon oyster sauce
- 1 teaspoon of oil
- ¼ cup orange juice
Instructions
Place pork, salt, pepper and a dash of fish sauce in a bowl to stand for 5-10mins
In another small bowl combine the orange juice, soy sauce, fish sauce, oyster sauce and sugar
Toss the pork in cornstarch and salt.
Heat two tablespoons of oil till hot and add the pork cook for 2 mins undisturbed then stir till browned and cooked through. Remove and set aside.
Add 1 tablespoon of oil to the same pan, add the sugar snap peas, spring onions and cook for 3 mins, add the garlic, ginger and chillies. Cook for 1 min
Stir Fry Pork with Sugar Snap peas
Add pork, then pour sauce and stir well. Let the sauce reduce and thicken for about two minutes. Add the dhania/ coriander leaves and stir through
Serve. had mine with coconut rice……..it was HAPPY EATING indeed.
If you do not have the fish and oyster sauce you can increase the amount of soy sauce but the flavour is not quite the same
