Open Face Chicken Sandwiches and Chilled Vegetable Salad

This is a nice and light meal. Great for any time of year and simple to make when dinner needs to be ready in a snap.

Shopping List:

1) Roaster Chicken, Chicken Deli Meat or cooked sliced chicken breasts

2) Spinach

3) Apricot jelly

4) Dijon mustard

5) Muenster cheese

6) A loaf of bakery bread, I am using french bread but any plain loaf that is at least 4 in wide is fine to use.

7) 1 cucumber

8) 1 zuchinni

9) 1 squash

10) Peas

11) Corn kernels

12) Roma tomato

13) Red onion

14) Balsamic vinegar


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To Begin:

You will need to start the vegetable salad an hour before eating and it takes about ten minutes to throw together.

Start by boiling six cups of water. While the water is coming to a boil. Dice half of a zucchini, 1 squash (place these two items in a small bowl separate from the rest of the veggies you cut up, the rest place into a large bowl), half a cucumber, 1 roma tomato, half the red onion, half a bell pepper.

When water comes to a rolling boil place in it the zucchini, squash, can of corn and a cup of green peas.

Let boil for 3 minutes.

Strain and pour into bowl with other cut up veggies. Add about 1/2 a cup of balsamic vinegar or vinaigrette and a dash of salt and pepper. Mix together and cover. Place in the fridge.


For the sandwiches they will take about 15 minutes of prep time and about 20 minutes to bake.

Set oven to 400.

Slice loaf of bread into 1-2 in. wide slices. Lay flat on baking sheet.

Take your rotisserie chicken and remove meat. Cutting it into pieces.

Have about two cups of fresh spinach washed and dried.

Slice muenster cheese, you will probably need 2-3 pieces of cheese per slice of bread.

In a small mixing bowl place 3 tablespoons Dijon mustard and 3 tablespoons apricot jelly. Mix well.

Spread the mustard mixture over the top of each slice of bread. Place a small pile of spinach on top of the sauce, then place a row of chicken on the spinach and to top it all off place the muenster cheese over the top.

Place in oven for 20 minutes or until cheese is melted and browning some.

OPTIONAL IDEA: If you want to mix it up even more you can add fuji apple slices to this as well!

Let the sandwiches sit for a minute or two then munch away!