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Chicken Cheddar Sandwiches

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Easy to make, easy to impress and yummy to eat….. Ideal for picnics, tea parties, Iftars, lunch boxes, snacks, etc.

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Ingredients

  • 1 whole sandwich bread (white or brown)

FOR CHICKEN

  • 1 chicken breast
  • Salt
  • Black pepper
  • 1 tbspn soy sauce
  • 1 tbspn hot sauce
  • 1 cup water for boiling the chicken

FOR SPREAD

  • 1 cup chopped baby spinach
  • 2 green onions chopped
  • ¼ tspn mustard powder
  • 1 tbspn cracked black pepper
  • ¼ tspn white pepper
  • 1 tspn chicken salt
  • 1 cup mayonnaise (I use kraft foods)
  • 1 cup sour cream
  • 3 slices smoked cheddar cheese slices (processed cheese) (chopped)
  • 1 cup cos lettuce chopped

Procedure:

  • Boil the chicken breast with all the ingredients given for chicken. Let it cool down and shred.
  • In a mixing bowl, combine all the ingredients for spread and mix in the chicken.
  • If you want to you can trim off the sides of the bread and spread the chicken mixture on one slice, enclosing the sandwich with the other bread slice.
  • Cut each sandwich into bite size squares or cocktail food size triangles and serve.

Asian Inspired Chicken Vegetable Pasta

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A very famous dish in Pakistani home cooking among young girls and probably a favorite of all age groups. Normally people add all the veggies and the sauce right after the chicken is cooked and then pasta at the end which make veggies soggy and discolored and obviously everything taste like sauce and lose their own taste, so I have told you my technique below where you know when to add what and you get a perfect full of life and taste pasta to see and eat.

Easy to make and yum to eat!

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Ingredients:

  • 500 gms pasta boiled (any pasta)
  • ½ cup oil
  • 1 chicken breast cut into thin strips
  • Salt
  • Cracked black pepper to taste
  • ½ cabbage sliced (3 cups approx.)
  • 2 carrots julienne (1 ½ cup approx.)
  • 1 capsicum sliced
  • 3 green onions sliced
  • 1 tspn minced garlic
  • 1 tspn crushed ginger

FOR SAUCE

  • ½ cup soy sauce
  • ¼ cup vinegar
  • ¼ cup chilli sauce of your choice
  • 2 tbspns ketchup
  • 1 tspn ground black pepper
  • ¼ tspn white pepper
  • 1 tspn chicken salt/ chicken stock powder

Procedure:

  • In a cup combine all the ingredients given for sauce and mix well.
  • Heat oil in a wok and fry chicken strips with garlic and ginger. Add salt when the chicken turns white. Now add cabbage and carrots and stir fry for 5 minutes.
  • Add the boiled pasta and mix. Add the sauce we prepared earlier and stir for 2 minutes on medium heat. Add scallions and capsicum, top it with some freshly cracked black pepper and mix.
  • Cook further for another minute with constant mixing and stirring and serve hot.

Chicken Skewers with Eggplant Dip

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Chicken Skewers with Eggplant Dip is my desi version of Shish chicken and Babaganouge which is originally from Lebanon. I love Lebanese food as it is healthy, quick and easy to digest. So I just added a bit of my spices and made chicken tikka and mixed babaganouge recipe with my Pakistani Bengan ka Bharta Raita and created this yummilicious dinner for myself. This is the 2nd week I am having it everyday and trust me I still dont wanna switch….. This is absolute LOVE

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Ingredients:

FOR CHICKEN SKEWERS

  • 2 chicken breasts (cut into cubes)
  • 2 tbspns lemon juice
  • Some salt and black pepper
  • ¼ tspn white pepper
  • 1 tspn red chilli flakes
  • ½ tspn garam masala
  • ½ tspn coriander powder
  • ½ tspn chicken powder
  • ½ tspn meat tenderising powder
  • 2 dollops of yogurt
  • 1 tbspn cream
  • Fresh crushed hara masala (2 cloves garlic + a small piece of ginger root + few mint leaves + few coriander leaves + 1 green chilli = crushed in mortar and pestle)
  • Some oil for brushing over the skewers while BBQing.

FOR EGGPLANT DIP

  • 1 large size eggplant
  • 1 red onion chopped fine
  • 1 tomato deseeded and chopped
  • Mint chutney (few leaves of coriander + few leaves of mint + 1 green chilli + salt to taste)
  • 2 cups yogurt
  • Some boiled rice

Procedure:

FOR DIP

-Put the eggplant on your naked burning stove and let its skin blister. Turn the sides and when the eggplant skin is blistered from all the sides put it in a bowl to cool down a bit.

-Meanwhile crush the mint chutney ingredients in mortal and pestle. Crush it fine. Whisk 2 cups of yogurt in a mixing bowl and add mint chutney. Whisk until the chutney is well combined with the yogurt.

-Add chopped onion and tomatoes to it. Now carefully with the help of knife, take off the blistered skin of the eggplant. You need to be careful as the eggplant is still bubbling hot and you may burn your hands. Chop off the stem of the eggplant and chop the cooked pulp.

-Add this pulp to the yogurt mixture. Mix and refrigerate for 1 hour.

-While its chilling we can make our BBQ and boil some rice. So for BBQ, place the chicken cubes in a deep mixing bowl and marinate it with all the ingredients given for skewers apart from oil.

-Keep aside for 15 minutes.

-Now start threading the chicken pieces on the skewers and grill on a preheated BBQ grill until the meat is well done but not burnt. It should be juicy and golden brown.

-Serve hot meat with boiled rice and eggplant dip.

-Enjoy!

Chicken Club Sandwiches

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There are several ways of making Club sandwiches but here I am gonna tell you the recipe of one of my favourites and the one I grew up eating, Chicken club sandwich. It is a very common snack sandwich in Pakistan which is served at almost every restaurant in the country. You can get it at Lahore International Airport as well.

It is a 2 storey sandwich, one layered with creamy chicken filling and the other one with boiled egg, lettuce and tomato. Tastes yummy with hot fries and coleslaw.

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Ingredients:

  • 6 good quality sandwich bread slices
  • Few leaves of fancy lettuce
  • 4 tomato slices
  • 2 hardboiled eggs, sliced

FOR CHICKEN SPREAD

  • 1 chicken breast boneless
  • 1 tbspn soy sauce
  • 1 tbspn hot chilli sauce
  • Some chicken salt
  • Some black pepper
  • A dash of mustard powder
  • Some white pepper
  • 1.5 dollop sour cream
  • 2 tbspns mayonnaise

Procedure:

-Cut chicken into cubes and Boil with soy sauce and chilli sauce and ½ cup water. Cook until the water is dried.

-Let it cool for some time. Then shred it.

-Now add everything given for chicken paste and make a spread consistency paste.

-Toast the bread slices to medium. We will take 3 per sandwich. It’s a 2 storey sandwich. On one slice spread chicken, and then place the other slice on it and then egg slices, lettuce and tomato and then the last bread slice. Insert toothpicks in all four corners of the sandwich and very carefully with serrated knife cut into 4 triangles.

-Put it onto your platter, serve with hot chips.

Cocktail Chicken Sandwiches/ Picnic Chicken Sandwiches

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Mini Chicken sandwiches ideal for parties, Picnics and Tea time chit chats. Easy to make and yummy to eat……

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Ayesha’s Kitchen

Ingredients:

FOR CHICKEN

  • 2 chicken breasts (cut into cubes)
  • 2 tbspns soy sauce
  • 1 chicken cube
  • 1 cup water
  • Salt and pepper
  • Splash of Any hot sauce

FOR SPREAD

  • ½ cup sour cream
  • 2 scallions (green part, shopped)
  • ½ cup mayonnaise
  • Some salt
  • ½ tspn garlic powder
  • Some black pepper
  • Some white pepper

FOR SANDWICHES

  • 2 loaves of white sandwich bread
  • Some fancy lettuce

Procedure:

-For chicken put everything in a saucepan, cover it with the lid and boil the chicken until all the juices are dry.

-Take out the chicken on a plate and let it cool down for a bit. Now with hands or forks, shred the chicken but please don’t use the food processor as we want shredded chicken not ground chicken. Ground chicken tastes weird plus gives a weird texture to the sandwiches.

-Add all the ingredients given for spread to this shredded chicken and mix. Now you have got chicken spread.

-Divide the bread into sets of two slices. Spread this spread on one bread slice; put a piece of lettuce on it and then the other slice of bread on top. Cut the whole sandwich into 4 triangles. Do the same with other sets of bread.

-Arrange them onto a tray cover it with the plastic wrap and enjoy with your family and friends at the picnic spot.

Chicken Malai Tikka

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Chicken Malai Tikka…….. another gem of Mughal era. Tender chicken thigh pieces, marinated in herbs, spices, cream and cheese, barbecued over charcoal pieces, yummmmmmm they literally melt in your mouth.

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Ingredients:

  • 5 large chicken thighs (boneless, cut into cubes)
  • ½ cup sour cream
  • ½ cup crumbled cheddar cheese (tasty)
  • ½ tspn meat tenderizer powder
  • Some salt
  • Some chicken salt
  • 1 tspn cracked black pepper
  • ½ tspn crushed white pepper
  • 2 cloves garlic (very finely chopped)
  • ½ tspn garam masala
  • 1 tspn dried fenugreek leaves

Procedure:

-Take a deep mixing bowl and put chicken in it. Add all the spices and seasoning and mix well. Then add crumbled cheddar cheese and sour cream and mix well.

-Keep aside for 20 – 30 minutes (not longer than this as it contains meat tenderizer, it will break the chicken to the point that we won’t be able to screw them on the skewers).

-Start preheating your BBQ grill now.

-Thread the chicken pieces on the metal skewers (7 – 8 pieces per skewer).

-Grill the tikkas on medium heat for about 6 minutes per side (turning occasionally) and serve hot with kachumar salad, naan and raita.