Key Takeaways
• For the best sandwiches of the tuna salad, J. Kenji López-Alt adds crushed potato chips, especially salt and vinegar chips.
• He places them in front of the upper bread to give the sandwich stability and taste on the tuna salad.
As a child, the Sandwich day at school was my favorite. I can still see the decent sandwich, the crispy cucumber and the delightful bag of potato chips on my midday shells in my mind. I was the child who took her sandwich apart to sneak a few crispy potato chips. At that time I had the feeling that I had reached the culmination of the culinary innovation and immediately upgraded my turkey, tuna or chicken salad-sandwiches with a button salt and crunch.
I recently felt an immediate nostalgia when I saw the real culinary innovator, J. Kenji López-Alt Tuna -crunch -sandwiches To The New York Times.
Its trick is incredibly easy and immediately improves every sandwich, especially on a salad base. Kenji crushes a handful of his favorite chips – Salt & vinegar – on the upper edge of the tuna salad before adding the upper slice of bread. He explains: “Beyond crunch also give chips stability to the sandwich and keep the tuna salad in place while they eat.”
Chips not only taste delicious, but also play a crucial role in the merging of a sandwich. You have experienced the frustration of a messy bite into a tuna, chicken or egg salad-sandwich only by half of it in your lap. One solution would be to make a drier salad, but that doesn’t sound appealing.
Adding gently crushed potato or corners to the sandwich helps to keep all the goodness while you eat it. Well, that’s the problem that this world needs!
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Kenji’s tuna salad cleverly exchanges olive oil for mayonnaise against wealth, but he encourages the readers to use the potato chip trick with the version of the tuna salad that speaks to them.
As I said, Kenji’s trick improves every salad -sandwich. After far too many tuna salad -sandwiches in the grammar school, as an adult, I am more of a chicken salad fan. So I have added to an avocado-based chicken salad shredded potato chips or corners-my current lunch is.
I recently rediscovered another explosion from the past for the potato chip purists: Utz Potato Stix. My children love them just like me as a child and they make the best addition to sandwiches. They are super crispy, but small enough to stack up between two bread slices.
If you make a tuna or chicken salad for meals at the beginning of the week, wait to add the chips to the right when you build the sandwich to get this creamable crunch.
