Tarragon-Walnut Chicken Salad

"This is a beautiful way to serve chicken salad. Looks and tastes elegant. Thank you cooking club"
 
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Ready In:
45mins
Ingredients:
12
Serves:
4
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ingredients

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directions

  • Place chicken in large skillet or dutch oven.
  • Add enough water to cover chicken.
  • Bring to a gentle boil over medium high heat.
  • Reduce heat and simmer 15 minutes or until juices run clear.
  • Remove chicken from liquid.
  • Cool and cut into 1/2" cubes In a small bowl, blend together mayonnaise and sour cream, stir in vinegar, salt and pepper.
  • Whisk in walnut oil until blended.
  • Stir in chopped tarragon and chives.
  • Reserve 2 Tbs of the apricots and 2 Tbs walnuts for garnish, then add remainder to mayonnaise mixture.
  • Mix well.
  • Stir in chicken.
  • Cover and refrigerate 1-2 hours or until well chilled.
  • Place 1 lettuce leaf on each plate and mound chicken salad onto leaves.
  • Sprinkle with reserved walnuts and apricots, then garnish with tarragon sprigs.
  • *Ifyou don't have walnut oil you can toast the walnuts before chopping them to bring out their flavor and substitute 2 Tbs of cream for the walnut oil.

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Reviews

  1. Fantastic! I made this last night and couldn't wait for lunch today to try it. I added some dry minced onion and peppercorns and white wine to the pot the chicken cooked in, so it was delicately flavored already. This dressing is a superb combination of tastes.
     
  2. I made this chicken salad for lunch yesterday and ate it rolled up in a low-carb wrap. I just bought a bottle of walnut oil that I really wanted to use and found this recipe...I really couldn't taste the flavor of the walnut oil. The only thing different was that I skipped the dried apricots because of my diet. Overall, it's a good recipe. Thank you!
     
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