Barbecue Chicken Salad Sandwiches

This delicious Barbecue Chicken Salad Sandwich tastes like Summer. It also tastes like juicy tomatoes seasoned with salt and pepper and a chicken salad mixture that has been dressed up with barbecue sauce and tossed with spring greens and sliced green onions. Overall though, it tastes like Summer, which is to say, it tastes fresh and delicious!

I came across the original recipe from Trisha at My Hobbie Lobbie while participating in a fun little foodie event, the Secret Recipe Club, hosted by the great Amanda's Cookin'. The idea of it is you are assigned a fellow food blogger each month, it is kept a secret of course, and you go to their food blog and pick a recipe (or more) to make. On the assigned date, everyone posts their creations and you go and visit and see all the goodies that were made. Sort of like a secret Santa, right?

My secret blogger is Trisha at My Hobbie Lobbie , who lives in India. Isn't it cool that we bloggers can live so far apart yet be connected via the recipes we share with each other? I think that is the coolest! Trisha had a great selection of recipes for me to choose from. I considered Cream Cheese Swirl Brownies, Chocolate Chip Cookies and Cream Cheese Pound Cake. In the end I decided to go the savory route when I saw her recipe for Chicken Mayo Sandwiches.

I put my twist on her recipe by adding barbecue sauce to the chicken salad mixture, as well as sliced green onions. The green onions give a punch of flavor that I really enjoyed. Thick slices of a juicy, ripe tomato add flavor and texture. This is a great sandwich for hot Summer weather.

Barbecue Chicken Salad Sandwiches
Makes several servings

• Leftover chicken breast & thighs, cut up into pieces or pull apart with your hands into bite sized pieces
• spoonful mayo
• spoonful miracle whip
• spoonful barbecue sauce
• spring salad mix, chopped into small pieces
• 1 Tbsp. sliced green onions
• tomato slices
• salt and pepper
• 2 slices good quality bread

1. In a mixing bowl combine the chicken pieces, mayo, miracle whip and barbecue sauce. Stir well to combine. Set aside.

2. Chop the salad mix into small pieces. Mix gently with chicken mixture and sliced green onions. Add chicken mixture to one slice of bread. Lay out tomato slices on other slice of bread, adding salt and pepper to the tomatoes to season. Combine both slices and serve.

Source: Adapted from My Hobbie Lobbie