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Summer chicken salad with poached cherries recipe
Photo: Anna Pelzer

Summer chicken salad with poached cherries recipe

23 ingredients 20 min + 1 hr 10 min 4 people openrecipes

An original take on a chicken salad, complete with poached cherries, pea shoots and celery stalks.

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Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)

609
Calories
40g
Protein
18g
Fat
70g
Carbs

Counts 15 of 19 ingredients — the other 4 aren't in our nutrition table and contribute nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume — 15 portions →
Ingredient Portion assumed kcal
Chicken 100g cooked 165
Olive Oil 1 tbsp (14g) 119
Cherry 1 cup (138g) 87
Pea 1/2 cup (72g) 62
Sugar 1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated 49
Onion 1 medium (110g) 44
Wine 2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml) 25
Carrot 1 medium (61g) 25
Lemon juice of 1 lemon (48ml) 12
Black Pepper 1 tsp ground (2.3g) 6
Celery Stalks 1 stalk (40g) 6
Thyme 1 tsp dried (1.4g) 4
Vinegar 1 tbsp (15ml) distilled 3
Bay Leaf 1 leaf (0.6g) 2
Salt 1 tsp (6g) 0
Water not in our table 0
Dandelion not in our table 0
Peppermint not in our table 0
Pea Shoots not in our table 0

Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.

Ingredients

  • 1 cup red wine Valpollicella or Pinot noir
  • 2 red wine vinegar
  • tbsp sugar
  • 0.5 whole black peppercorns
  • cups cherries washed and patted dry in kitchen towel and de-stemmed
  • 1 bunch of fresh radishes stems removed and washed thoroughly in cold water
  • tbsp courgettes, rinsed
  • 375 peas, preferably freshly podded but can use frozen
  • g head of dandelion or Pissenlit (the long slender yellow one) – leaves washed and dried
  • 1 mint leaves
  • 350 whole red fresh chilli, de-seeded and finely chopped (optional)
  • g lemon
  • 300 splash extra virgin olive oil
  • g salt and pepper
  • 1 medium sized good quality chicken
  • 1 small bunch of thyme
  • cup handful of pea shoots
  • 1 large carrots washed and trimmed
  • 0.5 red onion, peeled and cut into quarters
  • 1 celery stalks or half a head cut into quarters through the stem
  • 1 bay leaves
  • pinch whole black peppercorns
  • 1 - 2 litres water

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By lovefood · Recipe sourced from openrecipes

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