Zupas Chicken Pesto Sandwiches - Copycat Recipe

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Have you lot ever eaten at a eatery several times, together with constitute yourself ordering the same affair each visit? Why exercise nosotros exercise this? Answer: for me, it's because the minute I walk into that door, I e'er crave that 1 thing. And I gotta convey it. It's non worth the direct chances ordering something that could hold upwards less awesome.

If you lot alive inwards Utah together with Arizona, you've been blessed alongside access to a precious stone of a identify to eat: Cafe Zupas . It's 1 of our favorite restaurants. They convey the most wonderful soups, the most beautiful salads, together with the most killer sandwiches/paninis I've ever eaten. Plus, at the end, they grade you lot a costless chocolate-dipped strawberry. Ryan loves the Lobster Bisque (surprise, surprise) together with I unremarkably switch unopen to betwixt the Wild Mushroom Bisque together with Tomato Basil alongside Orzo Pasta. The salads are huge, together with healthily worth every bite, but I dearest their sandwiches the most. I've tried several things on the menu, together with convey all the same to sense of savour something that's non completely mouth-watering. But my all-time favorite has been the Gourmet Chicken Pesto Sandwich.

My obsession is to the betoken where I honor myself wanting it betwixt Zupas visits (which alongside our budget, tin hold upwards a ways between). So what exercise I do? I become far at home!

First step, honor a copycat recipe online. NOTHING. I'm serious. I couldn't honor whatever copycat recipes, together with the website was locking away every recipe surreptitious known to human being concerning this beautiful sandwich. So I apartment out called the eatery together with asked them what was inwards the chicken mixture. The guy laughed out a ''nice try, lady.'' On our adjacent visit, I was a fiddling sneaky, together with casually asked him what was inwards the chicken mixture (as if I've never had it before) - he must convey idea I was holler for for food-allergy purposes, together with explained what a few of the ingredients were. It was but plenty for me to larn a caput kickoff inwards the kitchen.

I was planning on serving these at a bridal shower I'm hosting this weekend, thus I wanted to examination my ''in-brain'' recipe this afternoon. I felt similar I was on an episode of Hell's Kitchen when Gordon Ramsay had the competitors sense of savour a dish he made, together with and thus asked them to recreate the recipe from "taste-memory."

Let me but state this:  I convey cracked the code, my friends.

The chicken mixture is genius alongside pesto mixed correct into the mayo, met alongside the perfect compaction hither together with at that topographic point of the toasted almonds, together with spicy zing of the roasted scarlet peppers. I am inwards dearest alongside this sandwich, together with can't human face to brand them for a crowd of ladies this weekend! 

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Zupas Chicken Pesto Sandwiches
Copycat Recipe
makes four sandwiches

four ciabatta rolls, sliced inwards half
1 large tomato, stalk removed, sliced
most a loving cup of alfalfa sprouts
four slices muenster cheese

1 chicken breast, cooked, cubed
1 roasted scarlet pepper (I used the ones from the jolt = easiest), sliced into small-scale cubes
1/2 C slivered almonds, toasted
1 batch of my homemade basil pesto (basil, garlic, pino nuts, EVOO, parmesan, lemon juice)
1 loving cup existent mayonnaise (I dearest miracle whip, but don't work it alongside this recipe. I beg you)

In a bowl, mix together chicken breast, roasted scarlet pepper, slivered almonds, basil pesto, together with mayo until but combined.

Slightly broil your ciabatta rolls inwards the oven thus they're warm together with a teeny chip crispy (or, if you're 1 of those people alongside a panini-maker... work the heck outta that affair afterwards assembling the sandwich).

On the bottom one-half of the ciabatta roll, layer on your muenster cheese, chicken mixture, tomato plant (seasoned alongside tabular array salt together with pepper), together with alfalfa sprouts. Top alongside the other one-half of the roll, together with work a toothpick to concur inwards place.

Dunk inwards soup, or devour every bit is. Both volition stone your world.

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