Chicken Cordon Bleu Burrito

Breaded chicken, ham, cheese is the tried and true combo so of course it burrito-izes. This is an easy way to bring elevated flavors to lunch or dinner.

Chicken Cordon Bleu Burrito
Ingredients: (serves 2)

2 tortillas
1 cup of rice, prepared
1 breaded chicken breast
2 slices of ham
2 slices of swiss
arugula or spinach
dijonaise/dijon + mayo

Directions:
Cook the rice and chicken.
Assemble the burrito with the tortillas, rice, greens, dijonaise, ham, cheese, and chicken.

Warm a pan to medium heat and spray with nonstick spray.
Roll up the tortilla folding the sides inward, then the front towards the end keeping the sides tucked tight.
Warm seam side down, and rotate to warm through.
Enjoy!

These are always a good use for leftover rice and just a few other ingredients.

I can’t stop and you shouldn’t either:
Buffalo Chicken Burritos
Chicken, Bacon, Ranch Burritos
Thanksgiving Hot Wraps
Street Corn Burritos
French Onion Burritos
Chicken & Broccoli Hot Wraps
Burger Burrito
Cali Chicken Burrito
Sausage & Peppers Burritos
BLT Burritos

Autumn Chicken Salad Restaurant Recreation

Finally a restaurant recreation! A local produce market/deli counter shares interesting or unusual orders on their Instagram stories that they have the manager try. I saw a chicken salad one that had so much going on, which is precisely my sandwich style. It was chicken salad, with cranberries, cheddar, bacon, apples, and honey mustard on an onion roll. I made a few tweaks but loved it nonetheless.

This is incredible and I don’t know why I haven’t put sharp cheddar on a chicken salad sandwich…plus the apples and cranberries are so fall. I couldn’t find the video to refresh my memory (of course) for a few details! I did skip the bacon as I felt it already had plenty happening here and it might get lost.

Autumn Chicken Salad Loaded Sandwich
Ingredients: (serves ~3)

1 chicken breast, fully cooked
1/4 cup mayo
1/4 cup cranberries
onion rolls
1-2 cups arugula
1 small apple
~3 slices of sharp white cheddar
2-3 tablespoons honey mustard

Directions:
Mix up the chicken salad with shredded chicken, mayo, salt/pepper, and cranberries.
Assemble your sandwiches on the onion rolls with a smear of mayo if desired, a bed of arugula, apple slices, chicken salad, and cheese.

Drizzle on the honey mustard.
Enjoy!

This is incredible. I love the chew of the dried cranberries and some sweet and tang from the honey mustard. The apples are great as slices or chopped into the chicken salad. The cheese might be a star here. We had garlic and herb cheddar and that was delightful.

Pickle Ranch Chicken Sandwich

This has all the good stuff. I want pickles in… or on everything. This is drippy and delicious and best eaten with lots of napkins.

Mix up some better-than-bottled ranch to make this special (and so it isn’t too runny leaving you less space for the pickle juice to mix in)!

Pickle Ranch Crispy Chicken Sandwich
Ingredients: (serves 2)

2 pieces of chicken (mine was breaded and frozen)
~ 1/4 cup ranch dip
~2 tablespoons dill pickle juice
~1/4 cup dill pickles
2 brioche buns
lettuce/tomato

Directions:
Mix up the ranch dip in advance. (Ranch Dressing will be too runny to then add pickle juice to!)
Air fry/bake the chicken until cooked through – according to your package/frozen/defrosted.
Chop half of the pickles and add to the ranch with the 2 tablespoons of pickle juice. Stir well.

Assemble each sandwich with some pickle ranch on each side of the buns, lettuce, chicken, and pickle slices.

Pour on remaining pickle ranch over the top, to take the sandwich over the top!
Enjoy!

These are so good. The brioche is a lovely way to sop up the dressing and when it coats the whole sandwich you get bits of pickle and whole pickle slices…yum. I loved this. Next I’ll try it with a piece of spicy chicken! Now, go get some napkins.