Receta Chicken Salad with Grapes, Cherries, and Hazelnuts
I guess you all heard about Snowmageddon in Atlanta last week. Two inches of snow plus crazy Atlanta drivers equals the worst traffic jam in recent history. In all fairness, Atlanta doesn’t see much snow and locals just don’t know how to drive in it. For that matter, we (read they) don’t know how to drive in the rain, either. Fortunately, we made it home without incident and hunkered down by the fire for a couple of days.
This thin-blooded southern boy doesn’t cope well with temperatures in the teens. As I sat on my sofa, notebook in lap, I gazed out at our frozen backyard and dreamed of warm weather. My thoughts turned to food and I envisioned a hot summer day, grilling and dining outside with friends. One thought led to another and I started thinking about one of our favorite summer lunches: chicken salad.
I had already planned a post for this week that required chicken stock. These days, packaged chicken stock works well for most recipes I develop. However, I needed a super rich stock for the recipe, so I killed two birds with one stone (pun intended) and boiled a whole chicken with vegetables. I got the stock I needed and I had a cooked chicken for making the salad. If you don’t have time to cook a chicken, a rotisserie chicken, available in most supermarkets, works well for this recipe.
Jim loves fruit in chicken salad, so after an assessment of the fridge and pantry I gathered grapes, dried cherries, and hazelnuts and was off to make a very special lunch.
Chicken Salad with Grapes, Cherries, and Hazelnuts
Ingredients
- 6 cups cooked chicken, cut into 1/2 inch chunks
- 1/2 cup chopped celery
- 1/2 cup chopped red onion
- 1/2 cup roughly chopped roasted hazelnuts
- 1/2 cup green grape halves
- 1/2 cup dried cherries, cut in half
- 5 tablespoons mayonnaise
- 1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
- 1/4 cup chopped flat-leaf parsley
- Leaf lettuce (such as green leaf, romaine, radicchio)
Instructions
Mix all ingredients together. Serve over a leaves of lettuce.2.2
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