Blackened Chicken Sandwich

Name: Blackened Chicken Sandwich
Yield: fills 4 soft sesame baps
Ingredients: 1½ level teaspoons salt; 2 chicken breasts (ie all the breast meat from one bird); 2 teaspoons paprika; ½ teaspoon dried basil (this dish is the only excuse that I know for dried basil); 1 teaspoon ground cumin; 1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper; 1 teaspoon cayenne pepper; ½ teaspoon dried thyme; pure olive oil (not virgin or extravirgin); 1 teaspoon sugar; ½ teaspoon dried oregano; 1 teaspoon Tabasco sauce; 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce; 1 tablespoon lemon juice; Hellman’s mayonnaise; shredded iceberg lettuce

Preparation info

fills
4
soft sesame baps

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Independent Cook

By Jeremy Round

Published 1988

About

Ingredients

2 chicken breasts (ie all the breast meat from one bird)
1½ level teaspoons salt
1 teaspoon

Sandwich
Spicy
June
Gluten-free

Method

I would not attempt this dish on electricity because it is far too hot to control. Cut each breast in half lengthways and flatten between sheets of greaseproof paper, with a blunt instrument, to form thin ‘schnitzels’. Mix all the other ingredients together, except the oil, lettuce and mayo. Stir in enough olive oil to make a basting liquid.

Pre-heat a heavy, dry, clean, cast-iron fryin