Hot wing grilled cheese sandwich

Hot wing grilled cheese sandwich

Chef William Tse from BC Place.

Ingredients:

• 4 slices French bread
• 6 slices Smoked apple wood cheddar
• 5 oz. Blue cheese (you can use your favorite blue cheese)
• 2 oz. Shaved Parmesan cheese
• 2 oz. Mozzarella cheese

For the chicken portion of recipe:

• 6 oz. Skinless boneless chicken thigh meat (½ inch diced)
• ½ cup Olive oil
• 2 oz. Frank’s hot sauce
• 1/4 tsp. Garlic powder
• ¼ tsp. Onion powder
• ¼ tsp. Ginger powder
• ½ tsp. Roasted garlic puree
• 1 tsp. Hot sauce powder
• 1 tbsp. Chopped parsley
• to taste Ground sea salt
• to taste Ground black pepper

For the butter portion of recipe:

• 8 tbsp. Softened butter
• ½ tsp. Garlic powder
• ¼ tsp. Onion powder
• To taste Ground sea salt
• To taste Ground black pepper

Procedure:

For the chicken:

1. Place diced chicken into mixing bowl
2. Add 1 tsp. olive oil
3. Add all dry ingredients, plus the roasted garlic puree (let sit and marinate for 1 hour)
4. Heat pan over med-high heat
5. Once pan is hot, add olive oil
6. Add chicken
7. Turn down heat slightly
8. Cook chicken (5-7 minutes)
9. Deglaze pan with franks hot sauce
10. Once chicken is cooked and the pan has been deglazed let chicken cool before assembling sandwich

For Butter:

1. Place softened butter in mixing bowl
2. Add all ingredients
3. Mix well
4. Set aside

Building of the sandwich:

1. Butter 2 slices of French bread (when building the sandwich, the butter should be on the outside of the sandwich)
2. Place bread — butter side down
3. Place 1.5 slices of Apple wood smoked cheddar on each slice of bread
4. On one slice of bread – evenly distribute the cooked chicken
5. On the same slice of bread – crumble your blue cheese around the chicken
6. Add parmesan & mozzarella cheese
7. A sprinkle of granulated garlic
8. Place the other piece of bread on top (butter side out)

Cooking:

1. Heat medium size fry pan
2. Place fry pan on med – high heat
3. Place sandwich in fry pan (butter should be on the outside)
4. Turn down the heat slightly so that the sandwich has a chance to heat all the way thru, melting the cheese, but not burning the outside.
5. Let cook – until cheese is all melted and the outside is golden brown.