At the table in 20 minutes flat? It is the dream of every gourmet in a hurry, but also the well-chosen title of a book that Juan Arbelaez wrote in confinement (and
edited by Marabout), after posting some recipe videos on his
social networks and participated in the show Daily.
“Twenty minutes, I think it’s the right time to prepare a good meal without necessarily having time in front of you! The idea was not to make a chef’s book that sits on a table and that no one opens, but a useful book, which lies in the kitchen and that one can annotate and dirty, ”explains the former de Top chef. He offers a series of easy and appetizing recipes … like that of
club sandwich which inaugurates a series of videos that 20 minutes offers you, every other Wednesday, throughout the summer.
A great classic of room service
“The club sandwich is a classic in hotels around the world,” says Juan Arbelaez. I had the opportunity to prepare some at the Bristol or the George V, but I wanted to do mine. A very “brutal” club in its assembly, in its cutting, in its way of presenting it, when you take it in your hands … “” Brutal “for Juan, that means raw and generous, with” all the ingredients that come with it. mix in the mouth and a rather crazy game of textures ”. Here is the recipe:
Ingredients for two clubs
1 tablespoon of soy sauce, 1 pinch of tandoori spices, 1 100g chicken fillet, 2 eggs, 3 slices of bacon, 3 slices of sandwich bread, 1 sucrine, 1 tablespoon of mayonnaise, 10 cherry tomatoes and 1 treviso salad.
Steps
1. Preheat the oven to 180 ° C
2. Combine the soy sauce and tandoori spices in a dish, place the chicken fillet and leave to marinate.
3. Boil a pot of water, immerse the eggs and cook for 10 minutes. Let them cool in ice water, then peel them and cut them into slices.
4. Place the bacon slices on parchment paper, along with the marinated chicken fillet. Bake for 10 minutes. In the meantime, toast the slices of bread.
5. Slice the sucrine and mix it with the mayonnaise. Cut the cherry tomatoes into thin slices. Unravel the treviso. Take the bacon and chicken out of the oven. Cut the chicken fillet into thin slices.
6. Place a slice of toast, then layer a cup of mayonnaise sucrine, a layer of chicken slices, a layer of hard-boiled egg slices, a leaf of treviso, a layer of slices of bacon cut in half and half of the cherry tomatoes. Add a slice of toast on top. Repeat all the layers, finishing with a slice of toast.
7. Place two picks to hold the sandwich, then cut it into two triangles before serving.