Curried Chicken Salad

This recipe comes from Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon and came to me by way of several different blogs. Like most recipes I make, it is scrawled on a notecard that lives in my recipe box.  Things are crossed out and added.  There are lots of notes in the margins about substitutions...  Getting a recipe that I got from somebody else is like playing a game of telephone. I probably messed it up (but I promise it still tastes good – it just may not taste like the original).

For my purposes, I only make a half batch of the recipe below. This is because I like to get 3 meals or multiple base ingredients for even more meals out of a fryer chicken.

For example, I might do something like this:

Night 1: Roasted chicken, sauteed veggies, and mashed potatoes

Night 2: Curried chicken salad on foccacia

Night 3: Chicken and dumplings (or I just make stock and freeze it. Or I make enchilda sauce.)

Night 4: Take fat skimmed off broth and use it as a base for creamed asparagus on toast.

There is something satisfying about using the whole bird. 

Curried Chicken Salad

1 whole, cooked chicken - shredded
1 red bell pepper – finely diced
1 bunch green onions - finely chopped
3-4 stalks celery, diced
1/2 cup toasted almond slivers
2 cups curry mayonnaise

2 tomatoes, sliced
1 avocado ,sliced

Sprouts (if you are into that – I am, but the grocery store didn't have any this time.)

This is what I use for the 2 cups curried mayonnaise:

• 1 cup mayonnaise (homemade if you're up to it) 
• ¾ cup sour cream 
• 3 tablespoons apple cider vinegar 
• 3 tablespoons mild or medium curry powder 
• ½ teaspoon ginger 
• Cinnamon and salt to taste

Simply mix the ingredients minus the tomato and avocado together.  Put on bread, on crackers, or in a pita along with tomato and avocado. Enjoy.

The curry mayo has some real zing, so for the little dude I put together a plate of the ingredients he will eat and mix half mayo/half sour cream as a dipping sauce. Gilbert takes dipping his food seriously.  Yesterday he dipped every single one of his blueberries into his milk before eating them...

At the point that Gilbert's plate was assembled, he had made off with the camera.  As a compromise for its safe return, I helped him take a photo of his plate too.

Photo by Gilbert

He thought being like mom was pretty cool.  You know... taking a picture of his food before he ate it.

I like it when my little dude thinks I'm awesome.  I'm going to enjoy it while it lasts.