Coronation Chicken Salad

Awesome Salad

I do not usually hear people raving about salads, but this one was just great. According to Sam Stern it was made for the Queen for her 1953 coronation, so as Caribbean royalty I thought I'd put this dish to the test. The mix of fruit and spicy ingredients in  the salad  is definitely a crowd pleaser and proves that salads so not have to be boring.  So stop giving salads a bad rep!

Recipe was adapted from 'Sam Stern's Student Cookbook' (Walker Books)

Ingredients:

Chicken breasts, apple (chopped into bits), a few grapes, 2 spring onions, 1/4 red onion, rocket, 1tsp curry paste, 2 tsps mango chutney, tsp lemon juice, 2 tbsp plain yoghurt, 4tbsps mayonnaise, 1 clove of creushed garlic.

Method:

1. Wash and prepare the chicken (cut into chunks as well).
2. Then fry with a little oil in the wok.
3. Chop up the onions and spring onions.
4. When chicken is white and is beginning to cook through add onions and garlic.
5. When chicken is nearly cooked add spring onions, curry paste and mango chutney.
6. While chicken is cooking prepare salad.
7. Slice a few grapes in half and put into a salad bowl with 2 handfuls of washed rocket.
8. Chop up apple into small pieces and add into bowl as well.
9. Mix in the yoghurt, mayonnaise and a little lemon juice. Mix well.
10. Serve chicken on top of the salad.

Top Tip's

1. The chicken salad can be served cold for a quick snack.
2. To make a spicy dressing add the curry paste and mango chutney and garlic to the yoghurt mix.  Then you can make any salad with the dressing like a cold turkey salad.