Bangin’ Spicy Rooster Melts (high-protein)

I had a low-key tuna soften obsession again after I was pregnant with Viggo, and now that I’m pregnant with child #4, it’s the proper time for a brand new soften to make an look.

These spicy, excessive protein hen melts are my newest and best lunch creation that can have your style buds dancing. It’s the proper recipe to make use of up leftover hen! We’re piling these open face sandwiches with my recent, spicy hen salad topping with our favourite cheese, and broiling them to melty perfection.

Skip the dry noon sandwich and whip up these deliciously satisfying hen melts in underneath 20 minutes! There are tons of yummy methods to serve the hen salad, too, if that’s extra your pace — verify all of them out in this publish, and revel in your new fav lunch or straightforward weeknight dinner.

The whole lot you’ll have to make these spicy hen melts

I like a lunch that I could make with elements I have already got in my fridge or pantry, and that’s precisely how these high-protein hen melts got here to life! Right here’s what you’ll have to make them:

• Salad: we’re utilizing my recent, Spicy Rooster Salad made with recent herbs and veggies, a bit mayo and Greek yogurt, sriracha for spice, honey, and lime juice. Really easy and so, so scrumptious!
• Bread: be happy to make use of any bread you want for sandwiches! I like a thicker sliced bread or sourdough right here.
• Cheese: the “soften” celebration of this sandwich, in fact. I like topping mine with sharp cheddar cheese.

Customise your wholesome hen soften

• Choose your protein: this can be a wonderful means to make use of leftover hen or perhaps a rotisserie hen! You could possibly additionally use 2 cans of tuna, or 1 can of rinsed, drained, mashed chickpeas (to maintain it vegetarian).
• Select your cheese: be happy to make use of any melty cheese that you just like. Add extra spice with pepper jack, or go for a slice of sharp cheddar.
• Go gluten-free: you possibly can completely use your favourite gluten-free bread for these hen melts. Extra methods to serve the salad beneath!

Methods to make the proper high-protein hen melts

1. Make the salad. Begin by mixing collectively your hen salad in a medium bowl.
2. High the toasted bread. Evenly unfold the hen salad on 2 slices of toasted bread, and add a slice of cheese to every.
3. Broil & devour. Place the sandwiches underneath the oven broiler for a few minutes till the cheese is melted, then take pleasure in!

Extra methods to benefit from the hen salad

Storing ideas

I like to recommend solely making the total melts that you just’re going to eat, however you possibly can retailer any leftover hen salad in an hermetic container within the fridge for as much as 3 to five days.

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I hope you’re keen on these spicy hen melts! In case you make them make sure you go away a remark and a ranking so I understand how you preferred it. Take pleasure in, xo!

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Excessive-Protein Rooster Melts

Prep Time 15 minutes minutes

Cook dinner Time 2 minutes minutes

Complete Time 17 minutes minutes

ServesServes 2 servings

Simple, high-protein hen melts piled excessive with spicy hen salad and your favourite cheese on toasty bread. These spicy hen melts are prepared in simply quarter-hour for a protein-packed lunch that is good for busy weekdays! Choices to serve the salad in wraps or scoop it up with crackers.

Components

• 1 batch Spicy Rooster Salad
• 2 slices your favourite bread, a thicker sliced bread is at all times good!
• 2 slices of sharp cheddar cheese (or your fav cheese!)

Directions

• Make the Spicy Rooster Salad.

• Toast your bread slices the best way you usually prefer it. Evenly unfold the hen combination over every slice. High every with a slice or two of cheese on high. Place underneath the oven broiler for two minutes or till the cheese is melted. Take pleasure in! Makes 2 open face sandwiches.

Recipe Notes

Be at liberty to sub 2 (5-ounce) cans of drained tuna, or one can of rinsed, drained, mashed chickpeas.
You possibly can even scoop up the hen salad with pita chips, or serve it chilly in a wrap as an alternative. Yum!

Vitamin

Serving: 1open face sandwichEnergy: 521calCarbohydrates: 26.8gProtein: 38gFats: 30.2gSaturated Fats: 9gFiber: 2.6gSugar: 10.4g

Recipe by: Monique Volz // Formidable Kitchen | Images by: Eat Love Eats