Perfect Chicken Salad Recipe
- 1 chicken, 5 or possibly 6 lbs., quartered
- Salt
- 1 onion, sliced
- 2 whole cloves
- 1 stalk celery
- Few sprigs parsley
- Pepper
- Mayonnaise
- Bibb or possibly Romaine lettuce
- Cucumber slices
- Capers
- Toasted walnut halves
- Put chicken in kettle or possibly Dutch oven and add in water to cover.
- Season with salt and add in next 4 ingredients.
- Bring to a boil, cover and simmer till tender-about 30 min for white and 45 for dark.
- Remove white meat when tender.
- Cold all chicken and remove skin.
- Cut white meat in 2x1 inch pcs and dice dark meat.
- Season with salt and pepper to taste and toss with mayonnaise to moisten.
- Arrange on salad plate with lettuce at one end and cucumber slices at other.
- Spoon more mayonnaise over chicken.
- Garnish with capers and walnuts.
- Good with tiny warm rolls, a fruit tart and chilled white wine.
- Makes 4 to 6 servings.
chicken, salt, onion, cloves, celery, parsley, pepper, mayonnaise, cucumber, capers, walnut halves
Taken from cookeatshare.com/recipes/perfect-chicken-salad-40082 (may not work)