Chicken and Sun Dried Tomato Sandwich Paste
Versatile - toasties, pasta, jkts etc
Servings: 12 20g tblsps
Calories: 47kcal
Cost: 11p a tblsp
Ingredients
- 135 g chicken raw, 111g if already cooked.
- 50 g butter
- 25 g sundried tomatoes
- 1 piece preserved lemon
Instructions
- If your tomatoes are hard and dry like the ones I use, soak them in a little water to soften them for an hour. click here to start a 1 hour timer25 g sundried tomatoes
- If your tomatoes are already soft, add them straight into the bowl
- My chicken was raw, so I cooked it in a frying pan with a little oil. Once it was done, I chopped it into little bits and scraped all the pan juices into a large plastic jug, along with the chopped chicken.135 g chicken
- Add the butter and the preserved lemon.50 g butter, 1 piece preserved lemon
- Now use a stick blender to whizz it to a smooth paste, adding the tomato soaking water if you need it to go to a paste, or some of t he oil from the jar, depending on what you used.
- If you don’t have a stick blender, try grinding it with the bottom of a rolling pin, or similar, in a big mixing bowl. You’ll probably have to let the tomatoes soften really well first.
- Put into a jam jar or lidded container and keep in the fridge for up to a week. Longer than that and you will need to freeze it
Notes
The finished paste filled a jam jar and when I weighed it (excl the jar) it was 250g, so 12 sandwiches using a 20g tblsp per sandwich with two slices of a value wholemeal loaf, 2p, that's 13p a sandwich.
Preserved lemons may be hard to find. You can make your own easily enough, but they wouldn't be ready the same day. In their absence, try a squeeze of lemon juice, and/or a grating of lemon zest
What changes can I make to chicken tomato paste?
- The sun dried tomatoes could well be got for less, this was the only one showing on Asda.com today
- You could use whatever spread you use in place of the butter.
- The meat could be turkey or beef.
- You could use a few dried mushrooms, or frozen or ones in a jar instead of the tomatoes. Be careful with the dried mushrooms, they are very strong.
- You could use a bit of tomato puree, add a little at a time, until it tastes how you want it.
- You could add a few fine chopped capers, or olives.
- You could add a bit of the chicken fat from roasting a chicken for a bit of extra flavour, or dripping from the joint for a beef version.
- You could add some fine chopped herbs, thyme, basil, rosemary or sage, or a pinch of dried mixed herbs.
Nutrition
Calories: 47kcal | Carbohydrates: 1g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 4g | Saturated Fat: 2g | Cholesterol: 13mg | Sodium: 39mg | Potassium: 82mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 1g | Vitamin A: 130IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 3mg | Iron: 1mg
