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- From: Jessica Litman <p01046@psilink.com>
- Newsgroups: rec.food.recipes
- Subject: Curry Chick Salad
- Date: 4 Apr 1994 08:18:09 -0400
- Organization: Wayne State University
- Message-ID: <2np0i1$ret@s.ms.uky.edu>
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- A different curried chicken salad: Quarter, skin and bone one whole
- chicken breast (or two half breasts) and steep for 30 minutes. (I use
- pureed strained fresh tomatoes and water with rosemary sprigs and a
- couple smashed cloves of garlic; all water with thin lemon slices and
- any fresh herb would work as well.) Remove chicken, chill and cut into
- chunks. Reserve a few tablespoons of poaching liquid. In very small
- pan, melt one teaspoon of butter or heat one teaspoon of oil. Add one
- generous tablespoon of curry powder and two tablespoons of the poaching
- liquid. Bring to a simmer and simmer for two minutes. Remove from
- heat. Add 3/4 cup plain yogurt and 1/4 cup mayonnaise. Add chunked
- chicken, dried cranberries, diced jicama, sliced scallions and sliced
- almonds. Salt to taste.
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- Notes: The proportions of dried cranberries, scallions, jicama and
- almonds depend on how much you like them. I belong to a family that
- believes that there are never too many dried cranberries. If you don't
- have dried cranberries in the house, you can use dried cherries,
- raisins or currants, but it won't be quite as good. If you don't have
- jicama, or don't feel like cutting one up just to put about a quarter
- of it in chicken salad, water chestnuts or radishes work okay. Jicama
- is better, though. Finally, both yogurt and mayonnaise can be full
- fat, lite or nonfat. They taste different, but they all seem to work
- equally well.
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