![]() This curry mayonnaise has a few special ingredients and techniques that make it off-the-charts delicious: sautéed onions and toasted curry powder. Most curry mayo recipes for curried chicken salad are fairly similar, using curry powder for warm heat and spice, lemon or lime juice for brightness, honey or preserves for sweetness. ![]() Toss the chicken with the mayo - that's all there is to it!.Shred the chicken or cut it into bite-sized cubes.Curry Powder (see below for my recommendations).Perfectly poached chicken - or you can use rotisserie chicken or any cooked chicken but be sure the chicken is nice and tender.Some popular additions include raisins, cashews, apples and celery. Though you'll love this curried chicken salad as is, you can also add your favorite ingredients to take it in whatever direction you like. ![]() This curried chicken salad recipe uses tender juicy homemade poached chicken and a curry mayonnaise that has a few special components that make it next-level delicious. The foundation of an excellent curried chicken salad is tender chicken and a fantastic curry mayonnaise. But if you want the best curried chicken salad, before you consider the variable ingredient additions, you have to be sure you've got the best possible base. There are so many curried chicken salad recipes out there, each with its own unique mix of delicious ingredients, from fruit to nuts. A British company called C&B manufactured the world's first curry powder and cooking recipes with curry became a lot easier. Plus, fresh spices were expensive and hard to find in Britain. The curries used in these dishes were labor intensive, with upward of twenty different spices, freshly toasted and ground, for a single recipe.Īpparently British colonial cooks weren't too keen on going through the painstaking process of making the complex spice mixes. When the British were colonial rulers over India in the mid-1800's delicious Indian curry recipes made their way back to Britain with returning colonialists. In researching this recipe, I was also surprised to learn that curry powder did not originate in India. Here's a look at the historical coronation chicken recipe. Constance Spry was in charge of flowers for the Coronation banquet. The dish which was described as ".a recipe of cold chicken in a curry cream sauce," came to be called "Coronation Chicken." The coronation chicken recipe was later published in The Constance Spry Cookery Book (1959). I didn't expect to learn that curried chicken salad was invented by Cordon Blue chefs in London to feed the 350 foreign dignitaries attending Queen Elizabeth II's coronation luncheon on June 2,1953. I expected to find an India connection because of the curry. What I discovered about the history of curried chicken salad completely surprised me. So whenever I'm working on a recipe, I always do a quick search into its origin, to see if I can find anything worth reporting. Since starting Panning The Globe I've learned that there is often an interesting story that explains how a particular dish came to be. The recipe is easy, it can be prepared ahead, and the flavors are outstanding. Any way you serve this curried chicken salad, you are in for a treat. Scoop it onto a salad for lunch, serve it on endive spears for an appetizer or make a sandwich and pack it up for a picnic. The exciting flavors come from the combination of warm curry spices mixed with tangy lime juice and sweet fruity chutney. This curried chicken salad is tender and creamy. ![]() Every home cook needs a great curried chicken salad recipe in their repertoire. ![]()
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