Honey Curried Chicken Salad

I just love curry! Don’t you? It’s been another hectic week here for me so meal preparation had to be quick and made on the run! Here’s a really light and very tasty chicken salad with honey and curry. After you make this original salad, you can then add it to cold cooked macaroni’s or served more simply on a bed of arugula and spring greens salad, or a simply great sandwich. You may add or omit whatever you prefer to this dish such as raisins, grapes, apples, or jicama. I like to also add slivered almonds whenever I make it, which is pretty often around here.
This recipe is not set in stone, but really more of a mix and taste test. The two ingredients I always play around with are the honey and curry. So I find myself mixing the dressing and letting it sit for a while and then going back and testing to see if it needs a little more. It usually doesn’t amount to a lot, but just a little, and I do like to make this salad up a day ahead of when I am planning to serve it.
You can use any cooked chicken you have on hand, but I prefer to poach fresh pieces the day I am making this salad and use both chicken breasts and boneless thighs.




2 – 3 lbs chicken pieces
½ fresh lemon
½ bunch of cilantro, chopped
sea salt & ground pepper

Preparing the chicken:

Half fill a medium saucepan with water and place the chicken pieces, cilantro and a good amount of pepper and salt along with the juice of half a lemon. Cover and bring to a gentle boil— then reduce to a simmer. Cook until the chicken is tender cooked through..about 35-40 minutes. Remove the chicken once cooked and set aside on a plate to cool. Once cool enough to handle, shred it or cut the meat into bite size pieces. As the chicken is simmering and then cooling, prepare the dressing.

Honey Curry Dressing

1 cup mayonaise
2 ½ tsp dried curry ** to start
2 TBLS wildflower honey
a pinch of sea salt & ground pepper
approx 2 TBL chopped cilantro & 2 TBLS chopped parsley
Mix up all and set it aside to meld. This is the part I always end up playing with, so once it’s set a bit, feel free to add more curry or honey to suit your individual taste. We love the flavor of curry, so if anything, I usually add more bringing the curry up to just about 3 tsps.

The rest of the ingredients are:

1 small stalk celery, diced very fine
2 - 3 carrots, peeled, julienned or sliced thin
a handful of golden raisins
a small bunch of seedless red grapes, sliced
slivered almonds

Take the shredded chicken, sliced carrots, diced celery, seedless grapes and raisins, place in a bowl and add dressing to it. Blend together well and top with slivered almonds. You may make it as dry or as moist as you like. Cover and refrigerate a couple of hours before serving. As it is, this is a yummy salad served on breads or over some greens..but oftentimes I like to add assorted macaroni’s too! Enjoy!

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