Ah, a meal fit for a drug kingpin! Straight out of the Superlab; it’s Heisenburgers with tots and a side of blue…. Jell-o. The Skyler’s the limit! We know you’ve been Hank-ering for it!
Don’t knock it… unless you’re the one who knocks.
Gus what in it! In Pollos Hermanos style, it’s a chicken sandwich!
Our inspiration, as per usual, is a Bon Appetit recipe, which you can find here.
We know what you’re asking. How did you do it? What was your meth’?
We followed that recipe, with a couple of Chez Venza modifications.
These are the (fruits and) veggies for the slaw. (Jalapenos and bell peppers are fruits, yo.) We had a little red cabbage leftover from the Chicken Khao Soi plus a little cole slaw mix. We also added bell pepper and a radish.
These all got tossed together along with some pickles and pickle brine.
We had a jar of these bad boys sitting around. The pickles and some of the brine went into the slaw. The rest of the brine….
…went to brining the chicken.
The Bon Appetit recipe calls for you to cut the breasts in halve, lengthwise. Instead, we pounded them thin between two pieces of saran wrap, and then cut them in half.
Now the recipe calls for a spicy mayonnaise. Some of us here at Chez V are a little sensitive to how rich mayo can be. So, this sauce employs three standard Chez Venza recipe alterations:
1. When a recipe calls for garlic, double it unless absurd.
2. When a recipe calls for hot sauce, double it unless absurd.
3. When a recipe calls for mayo, cut it or substitute it with (lite) sour cream)
The Pinkman Sauce is pictured on the left (garlic, hot sauce, mayo, and sour cream). Surprisingly, the recipe doesn’t call for this sauce to be added to the “slaw.” The slaw is only dressed in pickle juice.
After brining for about an hour, the chicken gets…
…dunked in seasoned flour…
…dunked in milk (we didn’t have the buttermilk)…
…and dunked in flour again.
Then it’s fried at 350 degrees until GBD in ABQ. (Golden brown and delicious in Albuquerque).
If you’ve made it this far and still have no idea what we’re talking about...well…you should watch more TV. We deemed this sandwich good, but not great (unlike our inspiration, which has been deemed Emmy-worthy). The Jell-o was…well…people our age don’t really eat Jell-o. What should we make next? Ricin-cakes?
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