Fried Chicken Sliders With Jicama Slaw

Serves: 4

Prep time: 35 minutes

Ingredients

  • 1 can Immaculate flaky biscuit dough (found in the dairy case of the grocery)
  • 2 boneless, skinless chicken breasts cut into (roughly) two inch squares
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 teaspoon pepper
  • 1 cup buttermilk
  • 2 large eggs
  • 2 cups of canola oil for frying chicken
  • 2 small tomatoes
  • 1/4 cup iceberg lettuce
  • Vegenaise or your favorite mayonnaise (we use this one.)
  • Skewers for holding sliders together

For the breading:

Ingredients

  • 1 cup flour
  • 1 cup rice flour
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • ½ teaspoon pepper


Directions

  1. Salt and pepper raw chicken well.  Whisk together the eggs and buttermilk and set aside.
  2.  Combine flour, rice four, salt and pepper.
  3. Dip chicken pieces into the buttermilk mixture, then dredge in flour mixture until coated.
  4. Repeat until all chicken has been breaded.
  5. Heat oil in a large frying pan to medium heat.
  6.  Fry pieces of chicken in batches until golden on both sides, and remove to drain on a paper towel.
  7. Remove biscuits from container and tear each piece of biscuit dough in half, then roll each piece into a ball and placed on Silpat-covered baking sheet.  (The biscuits should be half their normal size.)
  8.  Bake biscuits in 350-degree oven for eight to ten minutes, until golden, following the instructions on the container.
  9. While biscuits are baking, chop lettuce and tomato into small pieces.
  10. After biscuits have cooled, cut in half and spread one side with vegenaise. Add a piece of chicken, a slice of tomato, and several leaves of crisp lettuce to the slider.
  11.  

  12. Skewer on wooden skewer; repeat with two more sliders and add to skewer.  Makes one lunch serving.

    Brown Bag Lunches, Pt. 2

    Brown Bag Lunches, Pt. 2

Jicama Slaw

Serves: 4

Prep time: 20 minutes

Ingredients

  • 1 small jicama, peeled and cut into small strips
  • 1 Fuji apple, peeled and cut into small strips, same as jicama
  • 1 orange, peeled and cut into segments
  • 1 cup watercress, stems removed
  • juice of ½ of a lemon
  • 2 teaspoons salt
  • 1 teaspoon pepper
  • ¼ teaspoon cayenne


Directions

  1. Mix ingredients together and allow to cool in refrigerator for at least one hour.

    Brown Bag Lunches, Pt. 2

    Brown Bag Lunches, Pt. 2

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