This crispy chicken sandwich with cabbage apple slaw takes the flavors of fall and puts them into a sandwich. It’s a perfectly cooked crispy chicken cutlet topped with smoked Gouda cheese, pea shoots, and a homemade tangy red cabbage apple slaw. You’ll love this killer sandwich.
Pound out cutlets if you need to make them equal in size. If not just set aside while you prepare the breading.
In a large high sided frying pan add oil and set to medium-high heat. Keep an eye on the oil so that it does not get too hot while you’re breading your chicken.
In a shallow dish add cornstarch, kosher salt, black pepper, garlic powder and cayenne pepper. Whisk to combine.
Lightly coat your chicken cutlets in the cornstarch mixture and set on a plate.
When the oil has reached 350 degrees carefully add the cutlets and fry until golden. About 5 minutes per side.
Do not crowd the pan. So if it’s full with only 2 cutlets do the frying in 2 batches. If the chicken starts to brown too quickly or the oil is smoking turn down the temperature.
Add cooked chicken to a paper towel lined plate and keep warm while you prepare the rest of your sandwich ingredients.
For slaw:
Add all ingredients to a small bowl and toss to combine.
For sandwich:
Lay out a slice of bread, top with the cutlet, cheese, slaw, microgreens or pea shoots and another slice of bread.
Optional: you can melt the cheese on top of the sandwich by popping it under the broiler but I prefer it on the sandwich at room temperature because Gouda doesn't always melt well.