Chicken and Celery Salad Sandwich
February 23rd, 2013 in Chicken, Main Dishes, Salads by Julia Volhina
Total cooking time: 30min
This is a base chicken and celery salad recipe for sandwich to be served for breakfast or lunch.
The salad can be prepared in advance and used when needed, just store leftovers in fridge.
You can also use grilled chicken leftovers for this recipe or cook chicken breasts from scratch.
Ingredients:
- 1lb of chicken breast meat
- 4-5 fresh celery stalks
- 3/4 cup shredded of mozzarella cheese
- Toast bread
- Iceberg Lettuce to taste
- Ground black pepper to taste
- Salt to taste
- Mayo
How to prepare, step-by-step:
- Prepare ingredients:
- Start off by boiling chicken meat: bring pot to boil, add meat in and simmer it until it is cooked through (about 20 mins):
- When ready remove chicken from pot and cool it down (I began slicing it before remembered I forgot to make a picture, but this way you can see how I went about cutting the meat):
- Dice chicken meat and move it into a mixing bowl:
- Clean and dice finely celery stalks:
- Add shredded cheese:
- Season with salt and ground black pepper to taste:
- Dress with mayo:
- And mix:
- Shred enough of lettuce for the amount of sandwiches you are planning to make at once:
- Toast bread slices (I actually fried them on a skillet with butter from both sides; but normal toast will work as well):
- To assemble sandwich: arrange a layer of shredded iceberg lettuce on a toast:
- Then a layer of chicken and celery salad:
- Then a layer of shredded iceberg lettuce again:
- And cover with another toast:
- And serve for breakfast or lunch: