Colombian Chicken Sandwich with Mortadella
Shredded cooked chicken, mortadella, cheese and lettuce between slices of sandwich bread, pressed until the cheese melts. Four sandwiches in about ten minutes.
Servings: 4
Calories: 488kcal
Ingredients
- 1 chicken breast cooked and shredded
- 4 lettuce leaves
- 8 slices sandwich bread
- 4 slices mortadella
- 8 slices cheese two per sandwich
- Salt and pepper, to taste
Instructions
- Lay out four slices of bread. On each one put a lettuce leaf, a share of the shredded chicken, a slice of mortadella and two slices of cheese. Season with salt and pepper and close each sandwich with one of the remaining four slices.
- Press them in a sandwich maker, bake them, or brown them in a dry skillet, turning once, until the bread is toasted and the cheese has melted through.
Notes
Anything else goes in: tomato, mushrooms, avocado, whatever is in the fridge. The one thing worth keeping is the mortadella, which is what makes this a Colombian sandwich rather than a generic one. Butter the outside of the bread, not the inside, if you want it to toast rather than steam. If you are cooking it in a skillet with no press, put a second pan on top to weigh it down: the point is contact with the heat, which is what gets the cheese to melt before the bread burns.
Nutrition
Calories: 488kcal | Carbohydrates: 29g | Protein: 34g | Fat: 26g | Saturated Fat: 14g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 2g | Monounsaturated Fat: 8g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 103mg | Sodium: 1472mg | Potassium: 392mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 4g | Vitamin A: 653IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 487mg | Iron: 3mg