Chicken Tikka Masala Schnitzel Sandwich
Truly one of the greatest sandwich creations in the history of mankind
Ingredients
- 1 chicken tenderloin
- 2 slices bread
- flour
- egg
- milk
- bread crumbs panko, natch!
- oil for frying
- Indian style pickled onions see above
- Indian style tomato/cucumber salad see above
- green chili chutney
- tomato chutney
- tikka masala sauce find a recipe, do I have to do everything?. You’ll want the sauce heated up.
Instructions
- Set up your breading station. You want a plate full of flour (you can season it if you want to, but we are putting a lot of flavor into this in the form of condiments, so all I did was add a touch of salt), a bowl of egg wash (a mixture of beaten egg and milk, about 1 tbsp milk per egg), and a plate full of bread crumbs
- Pound your chicken tenderloin(s) flat using a kitchen mallet. You can get fancy and put them between layers of plastic wrap, or inside a plastic bag–some people like doing it that way. Or you can just set them on a cutting board and gently pound from the center out until you have them at a relatively uniform thickness.
- Heat a half inch of oil (I used canola) in a cast iron skillet at a medium heat.
- While the oil is heating, bread the chicken. Each tenderloin gets coated in flour first, and the excess flour shaken off. Then dip it in the egg wash until it is completely coated in egg. Then push the tenderloin down, both sides, into the bread crumbs until it is completely coated in bread crumbs.
- Fry the tenderloins in the oil, 3-4 minutes per side, until the chicken is cooked through and the bread crumbs are nicely browned. Keep them warm while you assemble the sandwich.
- Toast and butter 2 slices of bread.
- Spread the green chili chutney on the bottom slice of toast, and the tomato chutney on the top slice. Tomato chutney is basically salsa with a little Indian flair, like ginger and fennel. It’s pretty wet but the butter should keep it from soaking into the bread too badly.
- Add your pickled onions to the chili side and your cucumber/tomato salad to the tomato side. Or vice versa. Do it however you want. It looked pretty this way though.
- Add a nice hot chicken schnitzel on top of the onions
- You heated up the tikka masala sauce, right? If not, nuke that fragrant orange mess right now and then spoon a good amount over the top of the chicken.
- Carefully put those two halves together and experience enlightenment