Home – style McChicken

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Preparing home-style McChicken isn’t difficult. You need chicken breast meat fillets, salt and pepper, some flour and cooking oil. Cut the chicken breast horizontally so that the pieces are no more than three quarters of an inch thick. Any thicker than that will be rather difficult to bite into. Season them with salt and pepper, dredge in flour and fry in very hot oil. Flip once during cooking to brown both sides evenly. Drain on absorbent paper towels before serving.

To make our home-style McChicken sandwiches, we cut a whole loaf of French bread into four equal parts. We split them open, spread them with mayonnaise, laid lots of romaine lettuce on the bottom half, arranged the fried chicken breast fillets on top of the lettuce, covered everything with the top half of the bread and then we devoured them. :lol:

Of course, those were just the basic things that went into the sandwiches. There were variations. My 13-year-old daughter Sam had more unique ideas for her sandwich spread. She mixed together some mayo, French mustard and ketchup and used that as the base for her sandwich. Me, I liked it simpler. A generous spread of mayo was enough for me.

Since I only bought one French bread yesterday, those who wanted second helpings (my husband and 12-year-old daughter) had to make do with the regular white bread. Actually, any kind of bread would be good with fried chicken breast fillets. You can even serve them as an entree, rather than as a sandwich, with dinner rolls and a salad. You know, like chicken fillet steaks.

Another way of serving fried chicken fillets, and this is something I have enjoyed many times before, is to use cole slaw instead of mayo and whole lettuce leaves. Spread a generous amount of cole slaw on the bottom half of the sandwich, place the chicken on top and cover with the top half of the bread. It’s really delicious. I would have done that last night but the thought of making cole slaw, in addition to cooking the chicken, made me feel that I would wilt in the heat. Another time, when the weather isn’t so offensive, I’ll do that again.

So, that was last night’s home-style McChicken–100% chicken breast meat with no extenders, no extended coating to make them look bigger and only the freshest lettuce, not shredded leaves that had been wilting in the fridge for days. You control the amount of mayo you put in it or you can even ditch the mayo if you’re on a serious diet. Definitely loads better than fastfood junk.

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7 Responses to “Home – style McChicken”
  1. kulasa says:
    April 30, 2006 at 10:09 am

    I definitely agree with the shrinking McChicken. I suggest you try the Zumo Chicken of Big Brother’s Burger. Grilled chicken smothered with cilantro mayo. I know it’s weird but I like the chicken sandwiches from burger houses. I still go an buy McChicken but will probably eat a lot more of the Zumo chicken until it does it’s shrinking trick.

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  2. Connie says:
    April 30, 2006 at 1:06 pm

    Oooh, I love Brothers’ except that the nearest branch is an hour away from our house.

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  3. relly says:
    May 1, 2006 at 3:40 am

    Have you used a french baguette on this burger?
    Oh, how i love salads on summer.. outdoor eating is great..

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  4. Connie says:
    May 1, 2006 at 8:38 pm

    Ooh, relly, I would if I could find them here. :-(

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  5. paupau says:
    May 2, 2006 at 11:46 am

    sandwiches during this season is a welcome treat! the heat is unbearable! Thanx for this recipe, i will be able to have a filling meal easily. =)

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  6. relly says:
    May 3, 2006 at 2:11 am

    Sassy, there is a good french bakery in Shangri-la plaza.. at the second level i think?

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  7. chick says:
    September 27, 2007 at 9:06 pm

    i love mcchicken sandwich!

    gotta try this one out. thanks!

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