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Ingredients
- 1 skin-on, bone-in chicken breast
- 4 tablespoon olive oil (divided)
- kosher salt (as needed for seasoning)
- freshly cracked black pepper (as needed for seasoning)
- 2 ½ cup edamame in pods (either fresh and raw or blanched and frozen)
- ½ cup crème fraîche
- ½ fennel bulb (cored and thinly sliced lengthwise)
- 1 scallion (thinly sliced, white and some of the greens)
- 2 tablespoon coarsely chopped fresh mint leaves
- 1 tablespoon very thinly sliced fresh lemon verbena leaves (optional)
- 1 tablespoon chopped fennel fronds
- 1 tablespoon Champagne vinegar (or other mild, white vinegar)
- ½ cup crème fraîche
- ½ English cucumber very thinly sliced lengthwise on a mandoline
- ¼ cup fresh flat-leaf parsley leaves
- 1 teaspoon finely grated lemon zest
- 2 teaspoon freshly squeezed lemon juice
- 8 slice whole grain bread (lightly toasted)
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