food, glorious food

Recently, Nat wrote about her favourite meal. The following isn't necessarily my favourite meal, but we eat it quite often becuase it's simple, quick and healthy yet satisfyingly tasty. It doesn't really count as a recipe either, because it's so straightforward and you can adapt it in all sorts of ways, but there is a crucial part. Focussing on the stable ingredients, we call it, with wild abandon, 'Chicken Pittas':

Lightly toast three pitta breads per person and slice them open. Insert shredded white cabbage, shredded lettuce and grated carrot. Add some mayonnaise diluted with semi-skimmed milk (mix a small quantity first to prevent it from going lumpy) then mixed with plenty of lime juice. Place slices of stir-fried chicken on top of the mayonnaise mixture then finish off with sliced spring onion. And that's all there is to it.

We sometimes vary it by using red pepper and/or cherry tomatoes, but the lime and mayonnaise mixture is the key part, turning it from just plain chicken with salad into a delicious dish. Even then, you could probably change that to yoghurt and mint if you wanted to.