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Mirchi Thecha Chicken Sandwich
Give your regular chicken sandwhich a spicy Indian twist.
food
Mirchi Thecha Chicken Sandwich
Give your regular chicken sandwhich a spicy Indian twist.
Supplies
- 150g green chilli peppers
- 1 tsp vegetable oil
- 1 tsp cumin seeds
- ¼ cup peanuts, roasted and peeled
- ¼ cup whole peeled garlic cloves
- Salt, to taste
- 1 1/2 cups chicken, boiled and shredded
- 3 tbsp mayonnaise, as needed to moisten the salad
- ½ cup green bell peppers, finely chopped
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/8 tsp freshly ground black pepper
- 4 bread slices
- 5-7 onion slices
- 5-6 tomato slices
Steps
- Prepare the thecha by adding the peppers to the hot pan and fry on high heat until they are blistered (8-10 minutes). Keep stirring at regular intervals.
- Once blistered, remove the chilies on a plate.
- Reduce the heat to medium-low and add vegetable oil to the same pan. It will get heated in just a few seconds as the pan is already very hot. Add cumin seeds and garlic cloves and mix everything. Cook until garlic cloves are blistered (2-3 minutes). Keep stirring frequently.
- Transfer the cumin seeds and garlic to the plate along with chilies and let everything cool down for 5 minutes.
- Add green chilies and garlic mixture to a large mortar and pestle along with salt to taste and pound to make a coarse paste. If you don’t have a mortar and pestle, you can crush the ingredients in a food processor or a chopper. Just make sure to keep it coarse and not pasty.
- For the chicken filling, mix chicken with mayonnaise, bell peppers, salt, pepper, Kitchen King masala and red chilli masala together in a bowl.
- Lather the thecha on a bread slice, top it with the chicken mix, add slices of tomato and onion. Cover with a buttered bread slice.
- Grill on both sides using butter.