Are you always on the lookout for new Summer salad recipes for your next lunch with family and friends?
Try this proper chicken salad recipe from former My Kitchen Rules winner Will Stewart as a perfect dish for afternoon entertaining, made using the bold and strong flavours of Yorkshire Tea Gold teabags.
The quality of the blend imparts a rich, smooth and indulgent flavour and also a delicate golden colour to the outside of the white flesh of the chicken.
As well as poaching, a proper brew is great to rehydrate sweet, dried fruit – such as the cranberries, raisins and grapes used in this dish – and to add a savoury flavour. The tea-soaking liquid is then repurposed as the basis for the stock in which to poach the chicken breast.
The gentle poaching technique makes the chicken juicy and succulent; once poached the liquid can then be frozen and used later as a beautiful chicken stock. With radicchio and lettuce as the base, this is a vibrant salad with plenty of texture from the dried fruit, pumpkin and sunflower seeds, walnuts, celery and grapes; dress it with homemade mayonnaise with a touch of Dijon mustard.
Will Stewart won MKR in 2015, quickly becoming a household name across the country and since then has positioned himself as a much-loved, foodie personality. Working intimately with hand-selected brands, he also contributes to the Sydney Northsider as a resident culinary writer.
