Chicken Curry Salad Recipe
Filed under All Seasons, Chicken, Main Course, Salad, Wheat-free
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I love this curry chicken salad. I made up this recipe 20 years ago after a friend of mine gave me a gift box of curry spices and have been making it ever since. It's quite easy to make. The important thing to remember is that you need to "cook" the curry powder in the olive oil before adding it to the rest of the salad ingredients. Heat releases the flavor of the curry. It's also easy to make ahead, the added time just allows the flavors to blend.
Chicken Curry Salad Recipe
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Ingredients
- 2 Tbsp olive oil
- 1 1/2 lb skinless chicken breast, cut into 1 inch cubes
- Salt
- 1 yellow onion, roughly chopped
- 2 heaping Tbsp yellow curry powder
- 1 cup raisins
- 1 apple (tart or sweet, your preference), peeled, cored, and diced
- 1/2 cup chopped fresh cilantro (just lightly packed)
- 2 green onions, sliced
- 1 Tbsp mayonnaise optional
Method
1 Heat olive oil on medium/medium-high heat in a thick-bottomed sauté pan. Add chicken pieces and cook, stirring frequently until just cooked through, about 5 minutes. Sprinkle some salt on the chicken pieces while cooking. Check doneness by removing the thickest piece and cutting it in half. If it is still pink in the middle, keep cooking. Try not to overcook the chicken or it will be dry. Remove chicken pieces with a slotted spoon, set aside in a bowl.
2 Add yellow onion and cook. After a few minutes, when the onions are beginning to get translucent, add 2 heaping tablespoons of yellow curry powder. Cook a few minutes more, stirring frequently. If the curry sticks to the bottom or the mixture gets dry, add a bit more olive oil to the pan. As you stir, scrape up the stuck curry bits. Add raisins, and cook, stirring another minute. (If adding optional mayonnaise, remove curry from heat and mix in mayo.) Add raisin and onion mixture to chicken and mix well, coating the chicken pieces with the curry infused olive oil. Refrigerate until cool. At this point you can make the salad a day a head of time.
3 When you are ready to serve the salad, mix in the apple, green onions, and cilantro.
Serves 4.
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Posted by Elise on Jun 13, 2006 and indexed Chicken Curry, Chicken Salad, Curry
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Hi Elise, i've been reading your recipes via rss-feed for quite a while now. This weekend, I finally tried two of them. The results were delicious!
I used less cilantro than you suggest and added some parsley instead, which is more readily available here. But I would not want to omit cilantro completely, since its very distinct taste contributes a lot to the special character of the salad.
To all of you readers: This recipe is highly recommended!