Chicken that actually fits on a sandwich | Garlic and mustard aioli
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- Опубликовано: 4 май 2022
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**RECIPE, MAKES 2 SANDWICHES**
1 large chicken breasts
2 soft buns (I like brioche for this)
lettuce
tomato
garlic (I do one clove per sandwich)
oil (I like olive oil but it's strong)
mustard (I like dijon for this)
dill pickles
butter
salt
salt
pepper
American cheese (IF you want to do the melt version I show at the end of the video)
Cut the chicken breast in two about 2/3rds of the way up from the skinny tail end. Butterfly both pieces. For a quick 30-60 min brine, dissolve 15g of salt (1 tablespoon of my kosher salt) in one cup (240mL) of cool water, along with an equal quantity of sugar. If you want to brine the chicken longer, like overnight, I'd cut the salt in half. Don't worry if the salt doesn't all dissolve immediately. Submerge the chicken and let brine.
To make the aioli, peel and chop the garlic as fine as you can. Sprinkle on some salt and use the side of your knife to grind the garlic down to a paste. Put the paste in a small bowl, along with a roughly equal quantity of mustard. Stir in oil, a little bit at a time, to form an emulsion. Put in as much oil as the garlic and mustard with emulsify. Watch the video to see how. This sauce will be very strong at first, but will mellow out in time. Make it the day before if you don't like the heat of raw garlic.
Prepare a weight for flattening the chicken as it cooks - I wrap a brick in aluminum foil.
Remove the chicken from the brine and pat it dry. Season it with pepper and anything else you want, but no additional salt. Heat a pan until butter foams in it. Melt a thick film of butter into the pan, place in the chicken and smash down with the weight. Cook until the bottom is lightly golden brown and the chicken seems at least halfway cooked through - 2-3 minutes. Flip the pieces and cover again with the weight. A thermometer isn't much use on something so thin, so I'd just cook it another couple minutes until the inside feels bouncy when you poke it, rather than squishy, and everything looks cooked from the outside. Give it one more quick final flip to kill surface bacteria, because the side you cooked first just touched the brick, which previously touched raw chicken. Take the pieces out to a plate or something - the interior will continue to cook as they rest.
Toast the cut sides of the bun in the pan if you want. Let the bread and the chicken cool for about 5 minutes before dressing the sandwich, because the emulsion of the aioli will break if you get it hot. I do bottom bun, lettuce, tomato, chicken, aioli, pickles, top bun - but you do you.
If you want, you can make a grilled sandwich by placing cheese around the chicken, returning the sandwich to the pan with plenty of melted butter in there, press with the weight until brown on the bottom, flip, repeat, flip again one time (because the brick touched the raw chicken). 
Хобби
Hey all, if you've looked through the comments on my previous video about how garlic works as an emulsifier, you know that learned people have issues with how I explain why the emulsion won't form if there's too much oil. Having reviewed their reasoning and my own, I stand by my characterizations. However, something I should have said in this video is that you absolutely can get away with just dunking in a ton of oil (up to a point) if you use a blender or some other kind of power tool to whiz it up. You'll still ultimately be limited by the proportion of oil and water and emulsifiers in there, but it's much easier to bash the oil into tiny droplets and get the emulsion going if you use a power tool. I think it's really quite easy to make such a small quantity of aioli with just a knife, a spoon and a bowl, so that's what I did here. I like to keep things simple. But you do you. If you want to learn more about these issues, see my previous video, and the comments: ruclips.net/video/fqHqEGGz1tE/видео.html
Just Adam being professional and respectful😌
I can tell that you used to be a lecturer
oh you can tell he was a great journalist or lecturer
Water melon
Shut out the haters adam
The real gem in this video is the “scoring the chicken fibers on the surface “ tip. Absolute game changer, 100/10 Adam.
This rating system seems broken. Yet I agree.
Absolutely. I remember that being the main reason why i steered away from chicken sandwiches. Now.. I might just have to try them again
I will try this as well, as it may be better. When I had this issue with grilling (creating a dry chewy external 'skin' to the meat) , adding oil on the surface of the chicken prevents the drying out part. So now I spritz anything I grill with oil. It also seems to help the browning process in general be more uniform.
This is my favourite thing about Adam's channel. There's almost always some absolute gem of a tip snuck in somewhere.
ruclips.net/video/XkKeZ7EAr_o/видео.html Finally it's here,
the culinary brick is like that one character in a show that appears once a season for no real reason, i love it
it makes me happy for some reason
it is there for the butterfly cuts
Dr caldera
I spent like $30 on a grill press and this dude is like "I found this brick"
That brick has been in his pantry for as long as I can remember
Ok first of all this filthy brick he had to wrap with foill which tends to easily break...
Secondly... 30$!?
Man you Americans overpay for everything Don't you...
It's probably possible to find the same product for 5 bucks...
How much does it weight?
@@donotlike4anonymus594 weighs as much as ur mom lul
an adam ragusea classic
i use dumbbells
This has probably been said in other comments but: thank you for showing us how to troubleshoot the emulsion and giving us a plan on how to fix it is we put the oil in too quickly. YOU ROCK!!
Adam is the god to good tips :)
Yeah fr Adam is really thorough in his vids
@@MightyTheWolf Sorry, that title goes to chef jean pierre!
@@Batvolle is that actually a person or are you talking about jean pierre polneraff from jojo
@@britemite9042 hes a real person lol. Chef Jean-Pierre on RUclips
This is easily the best cooking channel out there. Zero bullshit, scientific explanations that aren't daunting for a layperson, and you cook food that normal people would actually wanna eat instead of the Instagram-friendly grease mountains other channels make.
Cool seeing the method for Brioche Grilled Cheese make a return!
One of the first Adam videos I ever saw, and feels like a cameo of an old lovable character
It’s like whenever Adam mentions brown sugar is just normal sugar with molasses
I still make that all the time if i can afford brioche.
Dear god, dear god, tinkle hoy!
Featuring: The Brick
@@derekkim593 actually normal sugar is just brown sugar without molasses 🤓
yes i nerd emojid myself
As part of a home university experiment last fall, I had to cook a clay brick in the oven to dry it out (testing the moisture retaining properties of a brick). Afterwards I had the fun idea to use the hot brick to seer a burger on both sides simultaneously, best burger I've ever made indoors.
I usually use either a cast iron burger press, or I just get two cast iron skillets ripping hot (nest one inside the other) and cook the burger between them.
Super fast cooking time, much less smoke, less oil required, end up with a perfect smash-patty.
The trick is to -take your time- letting the cast irons get up to temperature. Don't just blast them on high and hope for the best.
My current living situation doesn't really have room for a proper grill, but it's the easiest way I've found of making excellent indoor burgers.
@@Thrillhou i hope u don't mind if i take your tip, seems interesting
@@eigengrau7698 happy to share, my friend! I hope it works well for you
did u wrap the brick?
@@pineapplelord2422 wrapped in foil. A little hard to do when the brick is already hot though.
Man, when you put that brick back on the cooked side of the chicken I was like "nooo!!!" Then when you flipped it again I was like "whew..." That was an emotional rollercoaster.
Really need Adam to get into whether or not this is actually a big deal.
@@AR-ej2xw this is actually a big deal.
@@alecwhatshisname5170 How come? I'm not saying it isn't I just don't know and am willing to be educated.
@@AR-ej2xw germ make human sick. Human cook germy food. Germ gets killed. Human gets fed safely.
The reason that chicken in America have a high rate of salmonella is that the battery farming technique is so bad. L
@@AR-ej2xw raw chicken is very prone to develop bacteria harmful to people, much more than most other raw meats, that's why it's really unsafe to eat unless cooked. I wouldn't want to be the guy to try to shatter the "myth" by trying to get salmonella lol
A trick my mom taught me: do not stack your slippery vegetables. Similar to how you say to put a slice of cheese between 2 pieces of chicken so they don't slip across each other, it is better to put your lettuce facing one side of bun, and your tomato facing the other side of bun. This allows the lettuce and tomato to grip the texture of the bun each and makes it so the lettuce and tomato aren't sliding across one another. An example assembly to illustrate: top bun, lettuce, chicken, tomato, bottom bun.
A patty "too thin" on a burger is a blessing in disguise, as long as you have enough patties - putting a strong sauce in between two patties is extremely delicious.
besides that thank 4 vidya
And with more patties you have more browned crust. It's a win-win!
Double smash burgers are superior to a single thick burger imo
Really cool to see how much Adam has learned throughout the years when it comes to cooking
0:09 “the breast here is properly sized and shaped” oh Neptune, the ytp crowd is going to have a field day with that one
20 eggs, yes 20
@@tamegaming1768 I will stuff you under the broiler, what brits would call a grill
What a relief to know Adam likes pickles on a sandwich. That means his parents were married and I don't have to un-subscribe.
I won’t lie I got a little bit excited when I heard metric units. This is an American cooking channel I can watch. 🎉
'Unhealthy' version does not even seem that unhealthy! At least relative to the original product. Just added 2 slices of cheese and maybe 1 tsp more butter. Feel like the amount of lettuce is nutritionally small so having it or not wouldn't make a huge difference. Love the recipe! And the breast scoring is a huge tip I hadn't heard before
Came here to say this. It's like 100 extra calories in cheese and maybe the same in chicken, which the chicken isn't bad to begin with.
@@mrdanthesnowman Calories aren't unhealthy anyway.
@@d4n4nable A massive amount of them is.
@@d4n4nable Of course, but most people should try to limit them
@@adamszczerba5777 That depends, if you live a sedentary life style or if you're bulking. There's alot of variables to take account of. Also BMI doesn't tell the full picture you could look healthy but actually have underlying health issues so a regular check up is very beneficial.
It's not always about how much you eat (i.e the number of calories), but what you eat (the different vitamins and minerals)
I struggled to really reduce the garlic to a paste with just my knife, so I would probably try to use a garlic press next time. But by far, the best chicken sandwich I've ever made at home!
5:30 Adam really rockin those shorts
There's a reason this guy is approaching 2 million subscribers. Thank you for another quality video.
Dude, the scoring idea is a life saver with chicken, I learn so much from this channel. Much appreciated!
It was especially nice that Adam dedicated his attention to a seemingly small detail: the brick touching the raw meat. This kind of attention to detail makes it 100 times more pleasant to watch.
One of the things I really appreciate in your videos is when you show what happens when things go wrong. Seeing that kind of contrast helps me understand the "happy path" better.
Another day, another simple and delicious meal from Adam. That seems darn healthy too!
ben knows the best video's on RUclips
No.
bunch of bread and mayo. not healthy at all.
@@cracknigga yeah people know surprisingly little about actual nutrition. Mayo is 100 calories a tablespoon and bread is 200 calories a slice, thats 500 before you factor in any other ingredient. Dont go eating this every day because the comments say its “healthy” kiddos
@@cracknigga _Ah_ but the spread was _not_ mayonnaise because there was no egg, and the extra virgin is lower in fat. So it's healthier compared to processed mayo.
One thing I really appreciate about you Adam is that you explain why you have made a choice to use a item, like the Brioche buns feel over used here in Melbourne Australia for burgers which I dislike but I am now going to try one on a Chicken burger for the reason you have mentioned. also my cooking has become next level since I started understanding seasoning following your advice about what me and my family like, letting go of traditionally ideas I had about cooking and cooking the food my family will enjoy more. Thanks Adam!
This is a good chicken technique, I have to admit I got a great deal of inspiration and techniques for my home cooking from Adam's videos.
So do I, it means Adam is doing his job
I tried the brick. It works.
Personally I prefer to put a whole garlic bulb in the oven and let it roast until it's brown and can be squeezed out into a paste. That gives it a really nice rich and mellow garlic flavor without the harsh bite you'd normally get from having it raw.
Hi Adam, I've seen a bunch of Twitter discourse recently over eating raw ground beef. Lots of arguments about what culture its from, if it's safe to do, where in the world it might be safe to do and I thought of your videos. Might be a cool video idea to explore where it came from and the factors you would need to take into consideration if you wanted to eat it. the Wisconsin "Cannibal Sandwich" might be an interesting jumping off point.
Not even a big beef fan myself so I'm sure as hell not gonna tuck into some raw beef mince but thought it might be an interesting topic to explore in a video one day. Thanks!
Steak tartare in France. Served with raw egg in the middle.
I come from a culture otoh that cooks meat in pressure cooker for 30 mins:)
properly sourced freshly cut/minced meat is totally ok even raw, but i would not eat minced meat that has been sitting on the shelf for a couple days at the shop or in my fridge. well, I have eaten it medium-ish in my burger but that's not recommended.... but I've even eaten raw meatball dough as a kid and never had any problems sooo... (in finland)
Raw ground beef is also called "german sushi", because we love it. Should not be eaten the day after it was ground though, the fresher the better.
The reason you can't just eat ground beef from the store is that it can come from innumerable animals. If you buy a nice piece of aged steak or chuck roast and chop it up yourself, either with a knife or a grinder you will be absolutely fine. Any place that serves raw beef (French and Ethiopian restaurants in my area do this regularly) grinds/cuts their own meat for this otherwise they'd be on the hook for poisoning people...
@J M antibiotics make germs more tough against... antibiotics. The human body doesn't produce an antibiotic to kill off germs in the food we eat
Where I live in Spain, it's pretty typical to only use garlic and olive oil for aioli. Of course, it ends up much stronger, but we generally use it with meats such as lamb, by eating a bit of lamb, a bit of bread and a little bit of the aioli at a time. Since you can choose how much is right for you eating that way, it being so pungent isn't really an issue.
A blessing, a new adam video
This is a perfect application for peeled, frozen garlic. Much milder and easy to smash into a paste.
I love the garlic+mustard emulsion without yolk. Very creative and nice flavor pairing I think
A little Romanian cooking tip, if you really like garlic like we do and you want a very special garlic sauce (mujdei in Romanian): you can make it the same consistency of whipped cream by making it into a paste and mixing and whipping the hell out of it together with a very light neutral oil like sun flower oil and sea salt, until it is finished. The result is an amazing thing and it doesn't need any other things in it. The garlic taste also is much more pronounced. We use it with fish (we almost always eat fish with garlic like this) and with chicken (but we also make garlic + yogurt or sour cream and herbs for chicken).
I used to make this all the time, but some saver hacks was use pickle juice for the brine and my grill press instead of a pan. Id always put some balsamic to the dressing
pickle brined chicken is amazing
The amount of people that don't know the magic of balsamic vinegar is wild
Adam's videos are the most entertaining and very concise.
I made this for lunch today and it is so good. I'm glad to find new uses for boneless skinless chicken breast, since thighs have been getting more of the love over the past few years.
The most important benefit of the weight beyond the Maillard reaction browning is the fact that the meat fibres doesn't curl in on themselves - however, having already scored the meat in advance really reduces that problem significantly. Still, the weight is really beneficial to this sort of thing anyway.
Speaking of pickles, if you ever wanted to do an episode about home pickle making I'd be SUPER interested.
Thank you for introducing multiple recipes into a single video and making the garlic aioli so very accessible! We just made your mustard aioli tonight and it's great!!! :-)
This recipe/method is FANTASTIC
I just made this for lunch and Jesus Christ it was good. I love grilled chicken sandwiches but doordashing them gets really expensive over time. I'm so glad to know how to make an amazing chicken sandwich now. I did end up leaving the aioli overnight, though. Thanks Adam!
Things I didn‘t know I need and want for my kitchen: a cooking brick
Adam I have probably made this 5 times for lunch / dinner since you have posted this. Really great sandwich! Thanks for the video :)
This is bonkers. The effort to flavor ratio is off the charts.
Hey Adam, I have a recipe for Cajun chicken burgers that I adore, just some suggestions.
For a spicy chicken burger, in Scotland we have well fired buns, they are like normal bread rolls but slightly charred, the flavour of that goes very well. Spicy mayo, tomato, and lettuce are all ya need.
Completely coat the chicken breast in a mix of this:
All are one teaspoon
White pepper
Black pepper
Smoked paprika
Garlic powder
Onion powder
Oregano
Thyme
Cayenne pepper
looks like a great, relatively healthy, and quick weeknight meal for a single or when cooking for fewer people
Amazing! Loved this sweet gem of a short video jam packed with delicious info. Thank you!
Love Adam's molecular approach to a very rustic sammich.
Babe wake up, Adam just dropped a recipe
I was just about to eat some chicken, thanks for the tips!
I really appreciate the sandwich/burger videos. Great stuff
I tried this today and added some mayo (helps with emulsion) and sambal oelek for spice to the aioli and used some pickled onions instead of tomato and this was hands down one of the best burgers I ever had. Perfection lies in Simplicity!
I don't know how you feel about Alton Brown, but I love the guy, his format, and his presentation. You, sir, are right up there with him. Keep up the great work!!
AB jumped the shark a long time ago. He's clearly one of Adam's inspirations, but Adam now holds the crown. Or perhaps the kosher salt dispenser.
@@ig_foobar AB jumped the shark? No way, he's still got it.
@@ig_foobar AB still posts! He's on youtube! He's still up there
@@kingdweeb5065 Yes he's still around but he stopped being interesting quite some time ago. I was a big fan! But he's done.
Oddly enough, both AB and Adam are from Georgia.
Dude. My mom makes bomb food, but chicken breast she always fails with. I now know why! The scoring is legit a game changer! It makes the chicken so much more easier to eat without tearing big strings out of it. Thanks!
I learn more from you than I learned from the trained chefs on YT. You are awesome I am so glad I Found your channel ❤
My favorite food channel.
looks amazing!!! :D
Hi, Adam-I wouldn’t recommend storing the aioli at room temperature, as garlic stored in oil at room temperature is at particular danger of developing botulism. Even in the fridge it’s only safe to store three or four days.
The salt used to grind the garlic with the knife will help preserve the garlic a bit longer.
@@KatanaFPV no
Do a 5-second google search; Oil and Salt have been used to preserve garlic (and other easily perishable food) for Months.
The recipe has been around for hundreds of years, and the science to back it up has been around long enough
🤣
@@KatanaFPV he’s just a troll ignore him
@@KatanaFPV tell em
Made a garlic and shallot aioli using just the garlic and shallot as the emulsifier after watching the last video, was kinda fun showing my SO how the garlic sludge turns Mayo-like just by adding oil
The pub I work at does a version of this with bang bang sauce instead of the aioli and caramelized onions. I have it all the time for my lunch.
We call that a chicken burger. I love the way every country has their own words for things :-) Keeps life interesting.
@@theholypopechodeii4367 interestingly enough in the US any shaped patty made of a ground meat is what we call burgers, sliced, shredded, cubed, or butterflied meats on a bun on the other hand are usually just referred to as (insert meat type here) sandwiches
@@100GTAGUYin australia atleast burgers are if theyre on buns and the meat is hot. if its cold meat, its a roll
I've been looking for a new sandwich sauce since learning I can't have mayo/egg, very excited to try the aoli.
Adam has the cleanest and best sponsor promos, never see em coming
i made this with pickled red onions absolutely delicious
Look very delicious 😋🤤 I love chicken sandwiches
This looks perfect for summer when you don’t want a fat chicken breast, can’t wait to see more!
Tried this, and It turned out great
Mad props on the chicken Sir. Now that my son is getting older I'm able to do chicken sandwiches at dinner again, something he would not have eaten previously, I look forward to adding this to the rotation. I made it for dinner tonight, had smiles all around.
I love how Adam turned from "a dude with a kitchen and a camera" to a food scientist
He's more of a food journalist that cooks
I'm pretty sure that Adam was a journalist first -- and one of the few true journalists who knows how to do research. His videos are merely presentations of that research. No digs on Adam but what he is doing here is presenting the results of existing science.
The Alton Brown career path
@@Dotmw Alton Brown started off as a certified chef tthough
He's a guy with a kitchen, a camera, and knowledge about food science
Now that's a sandwich for the good life right there!
That looks amazing!!!
i don't have a food processor and don't eat eggs so the small batch aioli method here is a game changer thanks adam
Can you roast the garlic to mellow it down before emulcifying? Sounds like a good idea
Sounds gread, I wonder if this "deactivates" the emulsifiers. If not it might even be beneficial because you could use way more of it
I'm hungry rn and going to my friend for a cookout since we have a national holiday gonna do this at him
Update us
@@Froge4291 the chicken actually fit in the bun and we fucked up the aeoli like twice before we got it right
@@malacki163 did your friends like it
My go-to brine for for fried chicken (pickle juice + buttermilk or regular milk) might work nicely with this.
Thanks for this.
Ooh I really like this. I can't eat beef so usually burgers are a no go for me, but this looks like something I want to try
Thanks for showing us to carve up the breast to make such a uniformly thick, usable shape. Winner winner chicken dinner!
really does look tasty and healthy
I do something exactly like this for chicken sandwiches but I use garlic powder, paprika, lime juice, and salt and pepper as a marinade
Tip: don’t use a knife to turn garlic into a paste. It dulls the knife edge very quickly. Just use the bottom of a glass or meat tenderizer.
I use the back side of my knife exactly because of that.
You can use the tines of a fork to grate a clove of garlic into pulp very fast
This is great! Now I can make spicy chicken sandwiches. I'd like to learn a fried chicken sandwich but with this cutting of chicken I can't imagine it's to hard if you bread it.
Ragusea ur simply the best
Best food channel.
5:30 Lauren has tattoos?! Cool!!
Married her for a reason.
@@aragusea imagine marrying someone with a tr4mp$tamp. She probably rode the whole neighborhood before someone like you put a ring on her 😂
The part about pickles was just a perfect way to say it. I too have little interest in a sandwich without pickles.
I married a pickle hater & I can't believe we've made it for 16 years 🤣 pickles are life!
I will say it again, any channel that has cooking segments where a brick is an optional tool is a channel I should be subscribed to 😁
This looks delicious going to try it out
mayonnaise renaming itself to aioli has to be one of the most successful rebrands in history
Mayonnaise has egg. This does not.
wow I'm on reddit too, nice comment
Big oof
ive yet to see a single person mention the vinegar in mayonnaise, everyone's attention too focused on the eggs
**witty comeback**
Does the emulsifying power disappear when you cook garlic or could you emulsify an aioli with cooked/partially cooked garlic to take the edge off
The oil will squeeze out of the emulsion if it gets too hot
Every week I ask myself what I feel like eating and I always magically find the answer the moment Adam posts his video. Weird coincidence...
I just love your videos
Adam: *flattens the chicken so it wont slide out of sandwich*
Me: *simply keeps chicken in sandwich with grizzly bear hands*
3:13 instead of chopping and smashing the garlic have you thought of trying a fine grater for the garlic? Your supposedly able to grind the garlic with out peeling it too.
This is usually what chefs do.
This looks so good and I’m gonna make it
Now this is cooked with love. I see that. Thank you!
5:15 “the totally solid gelatinous spread” made the rheologist in me scream in agony
It's not an Adam Ragusea video without a "I'm usually not a fan of x, but..."
it's why i season my mouth now not my steak, because every unneeded unique ideas he come up is supposed to be right
excellent video and super applicable. Great tip with that chicken
new overhead cam is rlly nice
Adam, please consider dropping Hello Fresh as a sponsor if you believe in the unionizing power of the working class. They’ve engaged in some ugly union busting simply because the workers started to demand being treated with dignity