GT Chicken Melt

What the GroveTribe had for dinner tonight. Pair it with a nice salad or favorite veggies.

So you may remember our recipe for "Hundred Ways Chicken", well we believe in providing continued customer support here at Tribe Tracks so we thought we would give you a recipe with which to utilize some of that tasty chicken you baked up for the week.

This recipe is our new favorite. I love it, Chris loves it, even the kids love it. (Wow, something EVERYONE will actually eat. Novel.) It is warm, crunchy and even creamy. It is a sinful tasting, looking, smelling and even feeling comfort food that will cook up fast, fill you up and only takes up 400 calories out of your daily allowance. So, if you are watching the calories to lose weight or wanting a protein packed sandwhich for a recovery meal, here is our offering to you. (Note: This recipe is for a single sandwhich. If kids need a slightly smaller sandwhich just weigh out three ounces of chicken breast instead of four. Or just eat part of their sandwhich. Heh.) Here are the nutrition stats for this recipe:

So take out some of that wonderful "Hundred Ways Chicken" (breast) you have stored in the fridge. (I have learned to pre-shred the chicken breast into a large ziploc bag while it has cooled but it is still warm so it is all ready to go when you want to use it.) I weigh out about four (4) ounces of the shredded chicken breast for each serving. If you want to guess then one very large baked chicken breast should get you almost eight (8) ounces or two adult sized sandwhiches.

Ingredients per Sandwhich
4 ounces of cooked chicken breast, shredded
2 slices of Earthgrains Cracked Wheat Bread (you can substitute other kinds and just recalculate calories yourself but you may want to give this bread a try.)
1 Slice of American Cheese
1/2 Tablespoon of Mayonnaise
1/4 Tablespoon of Butter

After you weigh out your desired amount of chicken toss it in a bowl with the 1/2 tablespoon of mayo. It may seem dry but just mix it up as well as you can. When that is ready, whisper some butter onto your warm pan and place your bread on the butter, stack on your slice of cheese (yes, while it is in the pan, just be careful) and place the chicken mixture onto the cheese and top with the second slice of bread.

Let this cook on medium-low heat, this is a thick, dense sandwhich and you want it warm all the way through with the cheese melted (hence the name). When the bottom is golden brown, remove the sandwhich, whisper a bit more butter onto the pan and then place the uncooked side of the sandwhich down to get nice and crisp. Be patient! Maybe slide the sandwhich around the pan a bit to get any stray traces of butter and let the other side get golden brown and crispy.

Serve hot! You can make four of these at once if you have a square griddle pan and have all the ingredients ready to go. Enjoy and please let us know if you try it and what your verdict was in the comments section below.