Special Sandwiches

These flavor-packed sandwiches are one of my top favorites! The concept was invented by my mom a good dozen years ago... I remember it being the first time that I discovered that the intense flavor of sundried tomatos can be truly amazing in the right situation!

Here's how it goes!

A nice bread, chicken (sliced thin or get some chicken tenderloins), your favorite chicken seasoning, a jar of olive-oil preserved sundried tomatos, goat cheese, any variety of lettuce, oregano, a few cloves of garlic and pepper.

For my chicken seasoning, I generally will sprinkle the cuts of chicken with salt, pepper, garlic powder, celery salt, cayenne pepper, paprika and ground rosemary.
Then heat up a skillet to mediumish heat with some olive oil, and sear the chicken on each side till getting some golden brown. (Actually this time I thin-sliced a big turkey breast, cause turkey is actually far less expensive than chicken here and they had a great huge cut of turkey breast today on sale!)

Then prepare the sundried tomato paste, the real magic to this sandwich!
Take the jar of sundried tomatos, something like this:
I like them preserved 'wet' like this rather than the dry ones because (A) it skips the step of having to rehydrate them, and (B) they're turbo flavorful having been soaked in herbed-seasoned olive oil for however long. AND when you get the can, you don't use all the olive oil, so you're left over with a turbo-seasoned olive oil which you'd be paying up the wazoo for to buy separately in its own jar, and using that sundried-tomato olive oil in another context can be awesome, too. So unload the tomatos into a food processor, including a bit of the olive oil. Add some oregano, pepper, and crush a few cloves of garlic into it (crush them in advance otherwise you might end up with biiig chunks of garlic. Not a bad thing, but nice to have the consistency right :) Blend that together, adding a bit more of the olive oil back into it to get it to the right blended texture. Voila--sundried tomato paste! (honestly it'd taste really good just purely blending up the sundried tomatos if you want to make it more simple! I just love garlic, oregano and pepper, and think it gives it an extra kick!)

Layer your sandwich!!
Sundried tomato paste on one slice of bread, goat cheese on the other slice, and lettuce and chicken in the middle. Enjoy!!!