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Coronation Chicken Salad
Coronation chicken salad is an easy, pantry-friendly dish, loosely based on a posh, classically French chicken recipe that was created to celebrate Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation in 1953. This is the recipe you’d find during its heyday in Britain in the 1980s: a curried chicken salad loaded with dried fruit, mango chutney and sliced almonds, usually served as a sandwich filling or on top of baked potatoes. Debates rage over whether to include diced apricots or golden raisins (also called sultanas), but since each works well with the other flavors, you can use whichever you like. If you want a more intensely golden color, stir in ¼ teaspoon ground turmeric with the curry. And if you’re starting with leftover cooked chicken or a rotisserie chicken (you’ll need 6 cups), just skip Step 1.
Ingredients
  • subheading: For the Chicken:
  • 3½ to 4 pounds bone-in chicken parts (all breasts or a combination of parts)
  • 1 tablespoon fine sea or table salt, plus more to taste
  • 1 teaspoon black peppercorns
  • 1 bay leaf
  • 1 onion
  • 1 cinnamon stick
  • subheading: For the Salad:
  • ½ cup mayonnaise, preferably homemade, plus more as needed
  • ½ cup plain Greek yogurt, sour cream or crème fraîche
  • 3 tablespoons mango chutney (any large mango pieces chopped smaller), plus more to taste
  • 1 tablespoon curry paste or powder (such as Madras), plus more to taste
  • ⅓ cup diced dried apricots or golden raisins
  • 3 tablespoons fresh lemon or lime juice, more to taste
  • ½ cup sliced almonds, toasted
  • ¼ cup chopped cilantro, leaves and tender stems, or scallions
  • Fine sea or table salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
Steps
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