Chicken Salad Melt Sandwich
I absolutely love messing around with sandwiches trying to come up with something just a tad different to eat for lunch. Last weekend I was working in the garden getting it ready to plant. This particular day I had just made a batch of chicken salad from a rotisserie chicken in the fridge.
When it came time to make lunch, for some odd reason my mind went back to lunch time at the restaurant I worked at years ago.. One of our most popular lunchtime sandwiches was a Tuna Melt. Why I was thinking chicken salad instead of tuna salad is beyond me. But then I started thinking… why can’t I switch the tuna salad for chicken salad and make a Chicken Salad Melt Sandwich? I couldn’t think of a good reason why I couldn’t, so I did it. It was absolutely delicious and I loved it! So now the question is…why couldn’t I do it with ham salad? Melted cheese, ham salad…that’s another lunchtime creation waiting to happen. Chicken Salad Melt Sandwich…Enjoy!
Chicken Salad Melt Sandwich
Ingredients
- 2 slices bread, whole wheat or white
- 1/3 cup chicken salad
- 1/4 cup cheese of your choice, grated
- 2 Tablespoons melted butter
- 2 slices tomato
- 1 large leaf lettuce
Instructions
- Melt 2 Tablespoons of butter.
- Brush the butter onto one side of each slice of bread.
- Heat a saute pan under low heat.
- Place both slices of bread, butter side down, into the pan.
- Divide the 1/4 cup of grated cheese between the 2 slices of bread evenly.
- Cook the bread until it's toasted to golden brown and the cheese has melted.
- Remove the bread slices from the pan.
- Divide the 1/3 cup (more if desired) chicken salad between both slices evenly.
- Place lettuce and tomato on one slice of bread on top of the chicken salad, top with the other slice of bread.
- Cut in half to serve.
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Wow!! Loved this sandwich.. made me hungry instantly! Will make it with my homemade sandwich bread!