Honey Chicken Salad

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| Course Type: Salads

(1 review)

Tags: chicken salad dried cranberries honey pecans lunch box orange blossom flower salad with chicken

Recipe Review

Very nice! We made a few changes though, some of them quite substantial. For example, we used 3 tbsp (45ml) of mayonnaise instead of 1 1/2 cups (360ml), and 2 tsp (10ml) of honey instead of 1/3 cup (90ml). My estimate is that we used roughly the two thirds of the four cups of cooked chicken meat required - we had raw 800g chicken on the bone, enough to serve four. And last, we didn't have orange blossom honey, so we added about 1 tsp orange blossom essence - enough to notice in the dressing, but not in the salad itself.

I wonder if you could add other ingredients to turn this salad into a full meal. Rice comes to my mind, and one or two extra celery sticks, perhaps even extra dried cranberries and pecans. Would make a great lunch box this way.

Served with beetroots as a side dish this time, but that didn't work as well as expected.

Edited 4 August 2013:
Served with Beetroot and Potato Salad with Smoked Mackerel and a rocket salad with Tarragon Vinaigrette. What is it with me that I always want to combine this salad with beetroot? It combined very well with this salad, though. Served these dishes as a lunch/picnic to four people - I was afraid that it might be too much, but we finished it all!

We followed my notes from last time, greatly reducing the amount of mayonnaise and honey. I felt it was a little sweet this time, but I seem to have been the only one.

Edited 4 November 2013:
I added some rice (150g uncooked, one rice cup) this time, and an extra stalk of celery. I considered making a larger amount of dressing, but that wasn't necessary. It was very nice the way it was, but I could imagine that with a mix of white and wild rice, it would really, really great. My mother loved it.

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