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Chicken: Southern Fried Chicken Sandwich

Source of Recipe

fooddownunder.com


List of Ingredients

4 Thick slices white bread
75 g boneless, skinless chicken breast
1 tbl Plain flour
2 tsp Creole or cajun seasoning
1 Egg
2 slices smoked back bacon
2 Iceberg lettuce leaves
1 Tomato
1 sm Bunc chives
2 tbl Lemon mayonnaise
    Knob of butter, (at room temperature)
    Vegetable oil for shallow frying


Recipe

* Preheat the oven to 200c/Gas 6.
* 1 Cut the crust off the bread and discard. Whizz the bread in a food processor to make fine crumbs.
* 2 Scatter the crumbs onto a non-stick baking tray and put in the oven for 4-5 minutes until dried and pale golden.
* 3 Sandwich the chicken breast between two sheets of greaseproof paper and flatten with a mallet or rolling pin to a thickness of about 1cm.
* 4 Place the flour in a shallow bowl with the seasoning and some salt and pepper. Beat the egg in a separate shallow bowl.
* 5 Remove the breadcrumbs from the oven and heat a little oil in a frying pan. Dip the chicken first in the seasoned flour, the egg and coat in the crumbs.
* 6 Cook the chicken in the pan for three minutes on each side until well browned and cooked through.
* 7 Discard any remaining breadcrumbs and place the bacon on the baking tray.
* Cook in the oven for five minutes until cooked through.
* 8 Roll up the iceberg lettuce and finely shred. Slice the tomato. Snip the chives into a small bowl and mix with the lemon mayonnaise. Butter the bread and start to make the sandwich.
* 9 Place the shredded lettuce and sliced tomato on one slice of bread and top with the bacon, Squirt over a little mustard.
* 10 Remove the chicken from the pan and drain briefly on kitchen paper. Place a buttered piece of bread on the bacon then place the fried chicken on top.
* 11 Spoon over the mayonnaise then top with the final slice of bread. Push four cocktail sticks into the sandwich then cut into quarters and serve.