Chinese-style Chicken Toasts

Total Time: 20 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 10 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 2 chicken breast fillets
• 2 garlic cloves
• 2 spring onions
• 1 red chile
• 1 egg
• 1/2 teaspoon five-spice powder
• 3 tablespoons plum sauce
• 4 slices bread, thick slices, preferably a few days old
• 25 g sesame seeds
• 2 tablespoons vegetable oil, to shallow fry
• salad leaves, to serve

Recipe

• 1 cut the chicken into small pieces, peel and chop the garlic, trim and finely chop the spring onions and deseed and finely chop the chilli.
• 2 in a food processor, process the chicken, garlic, chili, egg, five spice powder a 1 tablespoon of the plum sauce until it has formed a coarse paste. transfer the mixture to a mixing bowl and add the spring onions, stirring until they have been well-combined with the rest of the ingredients.
• 3 spread equal amounts of the chicken mixture over each slice of bread, sprinkle with sesame seeds and then press down gently with your fingers.
• 4 cut each bread slice diagonally into quarters.
• 5 heat the oil in a pan, preferably non-stick, until it is really hot, then add the toasts and shallow-fry them in batches for 5 minutes per batch, or until golden brown. drain them on paper kitchen towels, brush with the remaining plum sauce and garnish with salad leaves.
• 6 notes: if you want to make your own plum sauce, i recommend rita l's asian plum sauce asian plum sauce, or you can buy plum sauce in supermarkets. drier bread will give the toasts a crunchier texture.