So, I had a choice; start from the beginning of the sandwich flavours and work my way through them again, in a fashion similar to painting the Forth Bridge, or create something different.
Bizarrely, I decided to create something different....get this... in my kitchen, at home. Yep, I decided to make something with 'ingredients' rather than eating something that came whole out of a box. Even more bizarrely, I decided to make up my own recipe. The risk factor was shooting through the roof, a bit like those graphs that you see on TV when the stock market is doing badly.
But guess what? It was a triumph! So much so, that I am going to share the recipe with you. Here goes:
Pic.No.1. Chicken, pesto, pepper and rocket pitta breads - good eh?
Ingredients
Serves 4
2 chicken breasts
1 yellow pepper (capsicum)
1 red pepper (capsicum)
Pesto sauce
2 tomatoes
2 handfuls of rocket
1 handful of fresh basil
4 pitta breads
Cut the peppers into strips and place on a baking tray along with the chicken breasts (Gas Mark 6 - 204Celsius) for 25 minutes. Remove, and slice the chicken breast making sure it is cooked through. In the meantime, slightly brown the pitta breads under the grill or in the toaster. Be careful though, for some reason pittas have a tendency to superheat themselves after a couple of minutes in the toaster. I haven't got any fingerprints on my right hand any more.
Once the pitta breads have cooled, take a teaspoon and a half of the pesto sauce and smooth over the inside of the pitta bread. Layer the chicken and peppers on top. Then lay the tomato slices on top of the chicken and peppers. Finally, add plenty of rocket and basil leaves.
Enjoy!
P.S. I forgot to mention that it is also really healthy, so if you don't want to be a blob, you can safely eat this.
P.P.S. Please let me know what you think of it if you tried it. It's the first recipe I have ever made up, so have quite high excitement levels about it.
P.P.P.S. Will try and finish the last bank holiday postings tomorrow.
9 comments:
Hey Anne,
The recipe sounds wonderful and I will indeed try it. Just one question and please forgive my ignorance...what is rocket? I know the space shuttle kind, but I've never applied it to a sandwich.
I really will try your recipe :)
Do you think so Ron? Cool.... thanks! Rocket is a peppery salad leaf. It is probably called something different in the U.S. in the same way that you call Peppers, Capsicum, and Courgette, Zucchini.
I love rocket. It's so peppery and lovely. This sounds good, except that I'm a vegetarian. But I think it would be great with goat's cheese ....
Hey Fran.... yes goats' cheese would be good... but I have a suggestion that would be even better.....
Fran probably says "what you on about you daft moose? what do you know about vegetarianism?"
.......no, no, hear me out....
Grilled Halloumi. That's what I know about vegetarianism.
It is sex on a skewer, and tastes Way better than any meat.
Am I right?!
I was going to ask what the hell Rocket is also...
I miss the Marks and Spencer foodhall; they closed up shop in Canada a few years ago.
Very impressed you posted a recipe at all - may even try it!
Rocket is arugula, I just used my big big brain to google it...
Pretty common now that know what it is.
We had a friend from Australia stay with us recently and it took me two days to figure out what the hell capiscum is!
Hello Mr Brahm, my recipe hero! Is Arugula a common ingredient? It took me ages to figure out what a capiscum was too... what do you call it?
Another bummer is converting the metric measurements to cups/pounds etc.
Crikey! For a moment there, I thought I'd accidentally gone onto Jamie Oliver's site.
OK, now that you've invented a sandwich, you need to give it a name. How about: Annie's Chicken Pitta with Pesto and Rocket. And Basil. Sandwich.
Perhaps not.
I'm surprised you had all those ingredients to hand. I have none of that in my kitchen... apart from the chicken breasts and a lone tomato at the back of the fridge.
I have just fallen off my chair... and that's either becuase I'm down under, or you cooked something...
Bring your recipe to US and cook it for me :-)
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