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This butter chicken sandwich is a saucy, warm, and comforting handheld version of your favorite Indian dish! Make it with leftovers for an easy meal in 10 minutes or less.
We love our spicy butter chicken recipe so much, we couldn’t resist making a new fusion recipe inspired by it! This saucy butter chicken sandwich is the ultimate sub, complete with a side of sauce for dipping. It’s messy, it’s delicious, and it’s truly comfort food at its finest.
What This Recipe Entails
You can easily make this sandwich in less than 10 minutes if you use leftover butter chicken. Make some of our spicy butter chicken for dinner one night, and leave enough for sandwiches the next day. Or, you can use store-bought butter chicken or leftover takeout for an easy alternative to our homemade recipe.
- Advanced prep time: 4.5 hours, if making butter chicken from scratch (4 hours to marinate the chicken, 25 to 30 minutes to cook)
- Prep time: 5 to 10 minutes, to make the raita and toast the rolls
Otherwise, you’ll simply need to make raita (an Indian yogurt sauce) or use store-bought, and toast the sub rolls.
Butter Chicken Sandwich Ingredients
Overall, this is a very simple and easy to make sandwich once you have all the ingredients put together. However, you will need to make or procure some ingredients that your local grocer may not have. Don’t worry though, making everything from scratch is super easy!
Here’s what you’ll need to make butter chicken sandwiches:
- Butter chicken
- Raita (a yogurt based Indian dip or condiment)
- Sub rolls
We recommend making a fresh batch of our butter chicken for this recipe. However, of course you can make your own favorite recipe, use store-bought butter chicken, or simply use takeout (leftovers work great)!
For the raita, you’ll need the following ingredients if you plan to make it from scratch. Otherwise you can check a local Indian grocery store, or an international grocery store, if you have either near you. And of course, it really does seem like Amazon has everything as you can get raita delivered to you.
- Plain Greek yogurt
- Cucumber
- Cilantro
- Mint
- Lemon juice
- Garam masala
- Cumin
- Sea salt
The raita is used as a spread for this recipe. It provides a light and fresh component that helps to keep the sandwich from being too spicy or too heavy. Definitely don’t skip this ingredient!
How To Make A Butter Chicken Sandwich
Making a butter chicken sandwich is as simple as preparing butter chicken and raita, toasting sub rolls, and assembling:
- First, make the butter chicken if you haven’t got leftovers to use. If you do have leftovers, warm it up in a saucepan on the stove over medium-low heat (make sure to cover it) or in the microwave.
- Next, make the raita. Combine the Greek yogurt, diced cucumber, cilantro, mint, lemon juice, garam masala, cumin, and sea salt in a bowl and stir well to combine.
- Then, toast the sub rolls. Open them up and place them on a baking sheet, then broil on LOW for about 3 minutes until the insides of the rolls are golden brown.
- Finally, assemble the sandwiches. Spread the raita inside the sub rolls, then use a slotted spoon to add butter chicken to the sandwiches without too much sauce. Then, use a regular spoon to add extra sauce over the chicken.
- Fill a small bowl with butter chicken sauce, and serve on the side for dipping the sandwich into, au jus style.
A toasted sub roll works best for these butter chicken sandwiches since the chicken is super saucy. We also recommend using a slotted spoon to add the chicken into the rolls, so you can easily control the amount of sauce to your liking. Then, dip the sandwich into extra sauce before each bite!
Serving Suggestions
Every good sandwich deserves a side. Otherwise that sandwich you worked so hard to make just disappears far too soon! So we wanted to share some of our favorite sides to help inspire you:
- Zucchini fries (tip: use any extra raita as a dipping sauce for these!)
- Spicy Indian tomato soup
- Chickpea avocado salad
Next time you have leftover butter chicken and don’t know what to do with it, try making this easy butter chicken sandwich recipe! Let us know what you think by rating, commenting, and sharing below.
Love this recipe? You may enjoy these recipes, too:
- Slow Cooker Chicken Tikka Masala
- Cauliflower Tikka Masala
- Spicy Butter Chicken
- Spicy Indian Tomato Soup
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Butter Chicken Sandwich
Ingredients
- 4 servings butter chicken leftovers, store bought, or takeout
- 1 cup raita see below
- 4 8-inch sub rolls
Raita
- ¾ cup plain Greek yogurt
- ½ cup diced cucumber
- 2 tablespoons finely chopped cilantro
- 1 tablespoon finely chopped mint
- ½ tablespoon lemon juice
- ¼ teaspoon garam masala
- ⅛ teaspoon cumin
- 2 pinches sea salt
Instructions
- Reheat the butter chicken if using leftovers.
- Make the raita. Add the ingredients to a small bowl and stir well to combine.
- Lightly toast the sub rolls. Open the rolls and place them open-faced on a baking sheet, then broil on LOW for 3 minutes or until golden brown.
- Assemble the sandwiches. Spread the raita inside the sub rolls, then use a slotted spoon to add butter chicken to the sandwiches without too much sauce. Then, use a regular spoon to add extra sauce over the chicken.Fill a small bowl with butter chicken sauce, and serve on the side for dipping the sandwich into, au jus style.
Notes
Nutrition
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Oh, that sounds SO good!
Thank you! It tastes as good as it sounds!