Chicken and avocado bagels

A recipe from cooking-ez.com

For 4 bagels, you will need:

• 1 1 shallot
• 2 150 g cream cheese
• 3 2 tablespoons herbs of your choice
• 4 250 g chicken breast
• 5 3 tablespoons olive oil
• 6 1 tablespoon chilli spices (optional)
• 7 4 bagels
• 8 1 avocado
• 9 4 leaves lettuce
• Total weight: 990 grams

Times:

Preparation	Cooking	Start to finish
25 min.	15 min.	40 min.

Step by step recipe

• 1: Prepare 1 shallot and chop finely.
• 2: Put 150 g cream cheese into a bowl with the chopped herbs and shallot. Salt and pepper according to the cheese you are using.
• 3: Mix together and check the seasoning.
  Set aside in the fridge.
• 4: Cut 250 g chicken breast into strips, then salt and pepper.
• 5: Pour 3 tablespoons olive oil into a frying pan on high heat. When good and hot, add the chicken pieces.
  Fry until nicely browned, then take off the heat.
• 6: To pep up the flavour, you can add 1 tablespoon chilli spices at the last minute, but this is not essential.
• 7: Slice 4 bagels in half (these bagels are made with cuttlefish ink, hence the black colour).
• 8: Lightly toast the bagels (in a toaster or under the grill).
• 9: Prepare 1 avocado and slice thinly.
• 10:

  Assemble the bagels

  Spread a layer of herby cheese on each bagel half.
• 11: Add avocado slices on each bagel bottom.
• 12: Top with chicken pieces.
• 13: Add a lettuce leaf.
• 14: Finish with the bagel top.
  Prepare all the bagels like this.
  Enjoy right away.

Remarks

Bagels lend themselves, like burgers, to all manner of different fillings, however the fancy takes you. The only common factor is usually the traditional cream cheese, but that said...

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