Chicken Waldorf salad

April 08/2015  Recipes  No comments

This is a good recipe for the day after Christmas, or the evening meal. It is light, fresh and can contain turkey meat, ham or chicken
Ingredients
1 chicken cooked chicken pulled and cut into mouth size pieces, preferably a more mature chicken that has more flavour when it is cooked. I boil mine with lots of vegetables and herbs and save the stock
1 Cos lettuce inner heart light coloured leaves cut into pieces [not essential, if you want the salad to last over a couple of days.
Large leaves for decoration
1 red and 1 green apple cut into pieces
½ a celery cut into pieces
Grapes if in season
1 cup walnuts or toasted almonds or
1 cup of good quality whole egg mayonnaise
3 spring onions
Lemon juice
Pepper
Method
In a large bowl combine chicken, light lettuce leaves, red and green apple pieces, celery, grapes, onions and nuts.
Add mayonnaise and lemon juice combine well.
Let it sit for half an hour to combine flavours.
To serve line a large bowl with the dark cos lettuce leaves standing up right around the edge of the bowl. Spoon the salad into the middle.