Wholemeal lemon chicken sandwiches

Name: Wholemeal lemon chicken sandwiches
Prep time: 10 min
Total time: 10 min
Yield: 1 portions
Ingredients: 140 g cooked skinless chicken breast (fully cooked and chilled; weigh cooked); 140 g wholemeal bread, ready to eat (ready to eat; about four slices, depending on the loaf); 10 g lemon juice; 2 g olive oil

No cooking needed

Chilled cooked chicken with lemon and olive oil in wholemeal bread. Make two sandwiches in 10 minutes with bread already on hand.

10 minuntil ready

10 minhands-on for base batch

1 portionone main-meal portion

1 batchalso works cold

The 10 minutes starts with fully cooked, chilled chicken and ready-to-eat bread. Cooking and cooling the chicken or baking the loaf happens beforehand. Serve cold; no appliance is needed.

Ingredients

Portions

For 1 portion. Tick what you already have.

140 g cooked skinless chicken breastfully cooked and chilled; weigh cooked
140 g wholemeal bread, ready to eatready to eat; about four slices, depending on the loaf
10 g lemon juice
2 g olive oil

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Shopping notes

Start at Lidl UK; buy elsewhere when needed. Amounts are recipe weights, not pack sizes. Shopping guide.

At home: Previously cooked, chilled chicken breast. Prepare from Lidl plain chicken breast in advance. Weigh after cooking; raw and cooked weights are not interchangeable.
Check the bakery: Wholemeal bread, ready to eat. Check Lidl first; buy elsewhere if unavailable. Reference is a purchased wholemeal loaf. Homemade bread has a different final baked weight; this is not a measured profile of the bread-maker recipe.
Lidl fruit & veg: Lemons. Recipe weight is the juice, not whole lemons.
Lidl food cupboard: Olive oil

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Items and estimated macros for the selected portions. Optional extras are excluded from both.

Meal to copy

Wholemeal lemon chicken sandwiches
1 portion

Items
140 g cooked skinless chicken breast
140 g wholemeal bread, ready to eat
10 g lemon juice
2 g olive oil

Estimated nutrition (total)
Calories: 542 kcal
Carbs: 53.1 g
Fat: 9.6 g
Protein: 56.3 g
Fibre: 9.5 g

Based on ingredient reference values. Optional extras excluded; packet values may differ.

Cooking this amount

Allow about 5 extra minutes to assemble each additional portion. Keep the cooked ingredients chilled until needed.

Method

Make the filling
Slice 140 g of chilled cooked chicken. Toss the chicken with 10 g lemon juice and 2 g olive oil.
Assemble two sandwiches
Divide the chicken between 140 g of ready-to-eat wholemeal bread to make two sandwiches per portion. Serve cold. For a packed lunch, keep the bread separate until eating if you prefer it firm.

Make it lunch tomorrow

Use cooked chicken that was cooled and refrigerated within two hours of cooking. Eat within 48 hours of its original cooking time; assembling this meal does not restart that clock. Keep chilled during storage and transport. Follow an earlier use-by date where applicable.

Cooking and packing guidance

Washing up

A board, knife, bowl and spoon.

Appliance settings

No appliance needed. Assemble by hand and follow the recipe’s chilling instructions where given.

Nutrition estimate

Portions

Estimated nutrition per portion and for the selected portions
Nutrient	Per portion	Total for 1
Calories	542 kcal	542 kcal
Carbs	53.1 g	53.1 g
Fat	9.6 g	9.6 g
Protein	56.3 g	56.3 g
Fibre	9.5 g	9.5 g

Copy macros includes the total for 1 portion. Estimates use ingredient weights in the stated preparation state. Optional extras are excluded; packet values may differ. How these are calculated

Reference values and assumptions

Cooked skinless chicken breast. Weigh after cooking. CoFID roasted light meat is a proxy for plain cooked skinless breast. Added oil, sauce or marinade needs its own allowance. Source
Wholemeal bread, ready to eat. Reference is a purchased wholemeal loaf. Homemade bread has a different final baked weight; this is not a measured profile of the bread-maker recipe. Source
Lemon juice. Fibre uses the Matvaretabellen reference for lemon juice bottled; the other values retain the CoFID estimate. Source

Recipe notes

Use plain cooked chicken without a sauce or coating. The weights here are cooked weights, so do not substitute the same weight of raw chicken.

Sources & further reading

Added 17 September 2026.