A Caesar salad sandwich: crispy bacon, pan-fried chicken, hard-boiled egg and lettuce in a creamy homemade Caesar dressing, tucked into toasted garlic panini.
Ingredients List
Caesar dressing
Method
- Heat oil in a pan and add strips of bacon.
- Cook for 2-3 minutes on each side and set bacon aside on a paper towel lined plate.
- While the bacon is cooking, butterfly the chicken breast and cut in half completely.
- Season the chicken with salt and pepper and add to the pan of bacon fat and oil.
- Cook the chicken for 4 minutes on each side, and set aside.
- While the chicken is cooking, bring a small pot of water to the boil.
- Add the eggs to the water once boiled and cook for 8 minutes.
- Remove the eggs and add to a bowl of cold water.
- Preheat oven to 180 degrees.
- Mix softened butter and mixed dried herbs together and spread onto the panini bread halves.
- Add the panini bread to a baking tray and bake for approx. 5 minutes, until toasted and golden.
- Peel the garlic clove and rub the garlic onto the toasted bread.
- Add all dressing ingredients to a small blender and blend to combine, or into a measuring jug and use a handheld immersion blender to combine.
- Wash and finely slice the lettuce.
- Toss the lettuce in the Caesar dressing.
- Peel and slice the cooled eggs.
- Slice the cooked chicken.
- Layer everything on the toasted panini, dressed lettuce, chicken, eggs and bacon strips, and serve.
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