Mini Chicken Cigars with Sweet and Sour Mango Dipping Sauce

  • Level: Easy
  • Yield: about 30 hors d'ouevres
  • Total: 45 min
  • Prep: 30 min
  • Cook: 15 min
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Ingredients

Chicken Cigars:

1 1/2 pounds ground chicken breast

2 teaspoons ground cumin

2 teaspoons paprika

2 teaspoons poultry seasoning

2 teaspoons chili powder

2 teaspoons grill seasoning, half a palm full (recommended: Montreal Seasoning by McCormick)

2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley leaves, a handful

4 sheets phyllo dough

4 tablespoons butter, melted

Sweet and Sour Mango Dipping Sauce:

2 tablespoons sweet plum sauce or duck sauce

2 tablespoons rice vinegar

1/3 cup light oil, such as peanut, canola, or vegetable oil

Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper

1/2 cup finely diced mango

Scallions, green tops only, thinly sliced on the bias, for serving

Directions

  1. For the chicken cigars: Preheat oven to 425 degrees F.
  2. Place chicken in a bowl and mix with spices and parsley. Place a piece of phyllo on a nonstick cookie sheet and brush with some of the melted butter. Repeat 3 more times, placing each piece of phyllo over the last buttered sheet to make 4 layers. Cut phyllo into 2-inch squares. On 1 corner of each of the squares, place about 1 1/2 teaspoons of chicken filling. Roll up tightly to make mini "cigars." Place "cigars" on a sheet pan and butter the tops of each. Bake for 10 to 15 minutes, until golden brown.
  3. Meanwhile, make the sweet and sour mango dipping sauce: Whisk together plum or duck sauce and vinegar in a bowl. Stream in oil and continue whisking to combine. Season with salt and pepper. Fold in mango and sliced scallions.
  4. Serve cigars with dipping sauce.

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Simeone's of Cambridge

This recipe needs work. Phyllo dough is challenging to work with and the unused sheets should stay wrapped until you need them. I added and subtracted from this and cut them differently.<br />I added sauteed onion, garlic, carrot and celery to the mixture as well as some chopped crasins. Cut back on cumin, poultry seasoning and chilli. Added olive oil for flavor and moisture.<br />Sprayed olive oil to bond the phyllo layers instead of butter. It worked better.<br />It was easier to roll a long "cigar" then spray with olive oil and then cut them into 2" mini's.<br />Came out great. Mushrooms instead of crasins would be good too. Got 88 mini cigars.

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