Buffalo Chicken & Tofu Caesar Vol-au-Vents Part 1

I'm not quite sure what the exact translation of Vol-au-Vent is, but if it means easy to eat then I nailed it 🤣 it's basically a puff pastry cup filled with stuff.

I did buffalo chicken for myself, tofu caesar for my girl, and chicken w/ tumeric rice for the dogs 😆

I marinated the chicken in white wine, chicken stock, minced garlic & onion, red chili pepper, salt, papper, paprika, cumin, oregano, and a little black truffle hot sauce.

While that marinates, make your puff pastry cups. Use round cookie cutters to cut out circles then using a smaller cutter cut half again to make a rim. Egg wash the circle, put the hollow circle on top, egg wash again, and bake at 400° until they're browned and puffy. Let them cool then pop the middle down with a spoon so you can fill them later.

Crisp some bacon then brown the marinaded chicken in the bacon fat, turn down the heat, add a little chicken stock, and simmer until it shreds apart. After shredding add butter, hot sauce (I like Stevo-O's Hot Sauce for Your Butthole 😂), mix, then fill some pastry cups. Cover with shredded cheddar and broil until melted, top w/ bacon bits, a drizzle of ranch, and some scallions.

The tofu was shaken in cornstartch w/ rotisserie chicken seasoning then browned in olive oil. These are pretty straight forward 😅 lettuce, croutons, tofu, and caesar dressing.

The dog one's I just used some of their regularly prepped food which is chicken and rice w/ veggies and tumeric 😆 idk if they know or not but they still enjoyed it 😁

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