Crumpets with Pulled Chicken and Avocado
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And that's your 5 A Day sorted!
| Preparation: 10 minutes | Serves: 6 crumpets |
| Cooking: 20 minutes | Unbuttered crumpets |
| Ingredients | Quantity (metric) | Quantity (imperial) |
|---|---|---|
| Free-range chicken breasts (trimmed and cut into 3 or 4 pieces, and well-seasoned) | 2 | 2 |
| Free-range streaky bacon (rashers) | 4 | 4 |
| Avocado (peeled, cored and chopped) | 1 | 1 |
| Red or yellow pepper (cored and chopped) | 1 | 1 |
| Cherry tomatoes (de-seeded and chopped) | 12 | 12 |
| Fresh basil (finely chopped) | 3 tsp | 3 tsp |
| Garlic clove (peeled) | 1/2 | 1/2 |
| Extra virgin olive oil | 2 tbsp | 2 tbsp |
| Butter | A knob | A knob |
| Salt and pepper | Plenty | Plenty |
METHOD
- Melt the butter in a griddle pan (a ridged frying pan, if this doesn't translate).
- Add the bacon and fry over a medium heat, turning from time to time, until the fat is perfectly crispy.
- Remove the bacon, leaving the fat in the pan, and set to one side.
- Add the chicken pieces to the pan and cook over a medium to high heat, turning to ensure all sides are nicely browned, for about 5 minutes. They should be cooked through, but do test them before you start washing up the pan.
- Remove the chicken to a large bowl and cover with tinfoil. The chicken wants to rest for 10 minutes or so, and will then be ready to pull into smaller pieces.
- While the chicken is having its rest, prepare the avocado, pepper, tomatoes and basil.
- Mix everything together (including any juices thrown off while the chicken was resting) together with plenty of salt and pepper.
- Rub the garlic clove onto the tops of the crumpets while still warm.
- Drizzle over the olive oil.
- Stack on the ingredients.
- Scrumdiddlyumptious!
The toppings
The crumpets
OTHER NOTES
Alongside the free-range chicken, don't forget to use bacon from happy pigs, or karma might come to bite you on the arse.
Helen Browning smoked streaky bacon is our number one.
