EASY RECIPE
This week my easy recipe main component is chicken salad which incorporates the Mii amo Cafe’s awesome southwestern Caesar dressing. Whether you make the sandwich or the salad you’re going to love the sweet and tangy meal.
Ingredients:
2 cups cubed chicken breast (about 1 lb or so) – poached.
1/2 cup Southwester Caesar salad dressing.
1 chopped pealed apple.
1/2 cup sliced celery.
4 slices Provolone cheese.
8 slices bread or lettuce for 4 if making salad.
soft butter to smear on outside of bread for grilling.
dash of salt and pepper.
Preparation:
Southwestern Caesar Dressing:
Step One – Mayonnaise Substitute
1 cup soft tofu (drained so as to remove packaging moisture)
1 cup fat free plain yogurt (drained)
1 tsp garlic (minced)
1 Tbsp Worcestershire sauce
1 tsp Tabasco
1 tsp Dijon mustard
¼ cup rice vinegar
Dash of salt and pepper
Combine all ingredients in blender. Blend until smooth.
Step Two – Southwestern Caesar Dressing
1 cup mayonnaise substitute
1/2 tsp cayenne pepper
2 limes (juiced)
1/4 cup Parmesan cheese 2 tsp red wine vinegar
8 to 10 anchovies filets
Dash of Tabasco sauce
Dash of Worcestershire sauce
Dash of salt and pepper
Combine all ingredients in blender.
Blend until smooth. Refrigerate until needed.
In large pot bring water to boil and then add chicken breast to poach Cook at low boil for 15 to 20 minutes. Make certain no blood flows from meat when cut and it is white through center.
Cool cooked chicken and then cut into cubes.
Chop the pealed apples, and thinly slice the celery.
In a large mixing bowl combine above ingredients and stir together.
Butter the outsides of the sandwich bread.
To base bread add chicken mixture, 1 slice of cheese, top with bread and grill on fry pan or pannini maker until golden brown.
Or if making chopped salad, chop the salad, plate chicken mixture, surround it with lettuce and drizzle extra southwestern Caesar dressing over lettuce.
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