Chicken Toasts

Ingredients

 * 2 chicken breast fillets
 * 2 garlic cloves
 * 2 spring onions
 * 1 red chile
 * 1 egg
 * ½ teaspoon five-spice powder
 * 3 tablespoons plum sauce
 * 4 slices white bread, thick slices, preferably a few days old
 * 25 g sesame seeds
 * 2 tablespoons vegetable oil, to shallow fry
 * salad leaves, to serve

Directions

 * 1) Cut the chicken into small pieces, peel and chop the garlic, trim and finely chop the spring onions and deseed and finely chop the chilli.
 * 2) In a food processor, process the chicken, garlic, chile, egg, five spice powder a 1 tablespoon of the plum sauce until it has formed a coarse paste. Transfer the mixture to a mixing bowl and add the spring onions, stirring until they have been well-combined with the rest of the ingredients.
 * 3) Spread equal amounts of the chicken mixture over each slice of bread, sprinkle with sesame seeds and then press down gently with your fingers.
 * 4) Cut each bread slice diagonally into quarters.
 * 5) Heat the oil in a pan, preferably non-stick, until it is really hot, then add the toasts and shallow-fry them in batches for 5 minutes per batch, or until golden brown. Drain them on paper kitchen towels, brush with the remaining plum sauce and garnish with salad leaves.