Grilled chicken sandwiches at home — a honey-balsamic marinade, California chicken with bacon and avocado, spicy copycat, and the sauce for dipping.
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An epic chicken sandwich recipe. Tangy, smoky, a little sweet, a little spicy!
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Open in Pepper →A grilled chicken sandwich lives or dies by the marinade and the bun. Get those two right and you've got a supper that beats the drive-thru line on a Tuesday.
Cooks on Pepper reach for these when practice runs late and everybody wants something fast but still off the grill pan, not out of a bag.
Every recipe here starts with chicken breast: the honey-balsamic Grilled Chicken Sandwich, a California Chicken Sandwich with bacon and avocado, a Rattlesnake version on Hawaiian buns, a spicy copycat brined in pickle juice, and the mayo-barbecue sauce to go with all of them.
Pound the breasts even
Flatten chicken to about 1/2 inch thick so it cooks through in 4 to 5 minutes a side without drying out the edges.
Brine in pickle juice
Soak thin breasts in 1 to 2 cups of pickle juice for at least 30 minutes, or overnight, for that tangy copycat flavor.
Toast the buns
Butter the cut sides and set them face-down on the hot pan for 1 to 2 minutes so the bread holds up to the sauce.
Let the chicken rest
Give it 5 minutes off the heat before it hits the bun so the juices stay in the meat instead of the bread.