How often do we go to our favorite breakfast or coffee joint for a breakfast sandwich, in Canada we go to Tim Hortons a lot and we enjoy our coffee and our breakfast there, but it gets costly, and often we can do it our selves, and make it better.
You can choose your own meat, your own cheese, and make it taste amazing, and the best part its what you want, and should be cheaper and healtheir!
So lets break it all down.
Cut an English Muffin in half and spread some mayo over it, if you want to make your own mayo mix you can do that, chipolete sauce would work great here!
Heat up your pan and put an egg on it breaking the yolks and cooking it with pepper and salt (lo or no sodium salt if you can.)
Remove from the stove when cooked and the toast the English Muffin over the stove too, and remove it.
Place your Eggs on the bottom part of the English Muffin.
Put some hot sauce, we like Sweet Thai Franks Hot Sauce on ours.
Put some grated cheese over it.
Put a sliced onion over it.
Close it up and serve.
This was easy, simple, quick and cheap, and honestly worth making for your breakfast, and it really levels your cooking up!
Start putting the ingredients into your breadmaker.
1 Warm Water 2 tablespoons of white sugar 2 tablespoons of yeast
Let this sit for 10 minutes before moving on to the next step, this is necessary for the yeast to start activating, please do not skip. (You don’t need the sugar, bread is carbohydrates, so it will break down into sugar soon anyway)
After 10 minutes have passed lets put the rest of the ingredients in.
1/4 Cup of Vegitable oil
3 cups of all pourpose flour, (You can use bread flour if you want.)
A small sprinkle of salt you don’t need a lot of this.
Now that its all in, the key is to use the right setting or it won’t work, so pay attention to this, and it should work fine.
In the end you should have some homemade bread, which should be cheaper and much tastier and you won’t have to worry about all the extra chemicals that usually come with store bought, and if you think about it, the only extra thing you should have to buy is flour, which should last a while and yeast which won’t be a 1 time use thing!
Sandwiches are great, but ever wonder why yours looks bad and get stuck buying one just to get one that looks and tastes great?
I’ve been guilty of it, and I know so have you, but here is the thing, you have to consider the quality of meat your using, the type of bread or bun your using, and sauce and how its going together, it really does mater.
So lets take some time and think about it.
Phase 1. The meat!
The meat is a big part of a sandwich, and often if you go to the store and buy sandwich meat, its thin, not as flavorful and just not the best quality around, so what do we do?
In our video here we used chicken, but you can use pork or a beef product, season it to what you like, pepper, salt if you must (I like low sodium myself), maybe some honey, and bake it until its cooked , but you want it moist.
When done take it out of the oven, let it cool and then slice it thin, or however you like it, many of us don’t have a meat slicer and thats ok, (who has room for that anyways.), when done put it in the fridge for a bit.
Phase 2. Veggies.
Cut up your veggies nice and thin, but remember to use veggies that are dry, cukes and tomatoes are nice and all, but they can often be wet and can make your sandwich a soggy mess, so if your going to use tomatoes make sure you are not putting seeds in, this will ruin it, take those out. you want lettuce or spinach or something similar. make sure to have several varieties or your sandwich is going to be boring.
Phase 3. Sauce.
Directly on the inside of the bun on both sides, I like just plain mayo over that, it acts like a lubricant, and helps keep the bread from going soggy, you can do a mayo mix with hot sauce, or mustard or other things to give it a bit more flavor.
You can use other sauces like BBQ sauces, or a vinaigrette, or other tasty sauces you might want to include.
Phase 4. Cheese
You need cheese, plain and simple and to be honest you do not want cheesewiz, you want something of quality, you can get cheese slices, but honestly that brings you back to just making bland crap, so you can buy a block of cheese and cut that up, or go to the deli and buy a really nice block of cheese, trust me the flavor this brings is so electric and amazing, and trust me the cheese that you get from the deli is actual real cheese, and if you’ve never had it, trust me you need to.
Phase 5. Bread
You could use whtie bread, but when you buy a a good quality sandwich is it on white bread, most often it isn’t, why not choose a multi grain, or even better a nice bun, or roll, after all you want the best quality you can get, and this is going to do it.
Phase 6. Putting it all together!
Ok, so here is the fun part, not the most fun part, that is you eating it.
Take your roll and cut it down the middle, or if its bread just use both slices, but put your mayo, or mayo mix on the bottom of each side, this will act as a lubricant, which helps from keeping the juices getting your bread product
Then put some lettuce on the bottom and layering it nicely.
Now you want to take your meat and start layering that as well, giving it a nice presentation and having enough on it to make you happy.
Now start putting your veggies on it one by one, keeping in mind not to put too many veggies on it as it will make it messy and also hard to close, this isn’t a Subway sub, they do give you lots of veggies, but not a whole lot, and in the end it does look good, but the quality isn’t there.
Now your sauce you want to use, and remember do not over load this, or it is going to be messy, you want to have enough you taste and know its there and are happy, but not so much its going to over flow.
Then your cheese, and you want enough of this, especially if its from the deli.
Then lastly some more lettuce and close your sandwich.
The only thing left to do if you really want, you can put this in a pre heated oven to toast it.
But thats all, try this out some time, and if your someone who would enjoy to bring this to your work for lunch, buy the quantities for the week, and do the math, I bet you its cheaper than buying it every day, and honestly your co workers are going to be jelous!
Do you own a breadmaker? If not why not, having one can save you a lot of money from having to buy bread, and honestly its very easy to use, just takes a bit of time, and honestly it tastes better, and has more flavor and honestly one of the best investments you’ll ever make.
This is super easy, you just have to put these ingredients in the order in which I tell you.
First off, you want 1 cup of warm water, make sure its warm not hot.
2 Table spoons of margarine, or butter.
3 Cups of Four.
3 Table spoons of sugar (not that important, I don’t always add even half of that.
4. 1/2 table spoon of salt, I usually just sprinkle a little in, I never add a lot, and even still mine is Lo-Salt, so its very low sodium as it is.
1 Tea spoon of cinnimon, you can actually add more of this if you want.
2 Tablespoons of yeast.
3/4th cup of Raisons.
Set them on what ever setting your breadmaker needs, you may have to look in your instructions or online mine is fruit and nut.
Just let it take its time, and should work fine, and in no time you’ll have some amazing Raisin bread, and if I’m being honest we both absolutely love it!
