After reading all about Julia, am so fascinated with her enthusiastic spirit to learn French cuisine - from enrolling in cooking and French classes up to talking to the fish mongers, bakers and fruit sellers. And from there on, she has addicted and how she begins with her food life.
“Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.” ― Julia Child. I guess this is one of most fundamental requirement for every successful story.
After gone through few pages on the her web of her recipes, I came to realize that Julia not only a Master in French Food, I was amazed to see some Chinese recipes from her too! Instead of Chinese food which are my familiar, I have choose a simple making dish - Chicken Salad, one of the recipes pick-up from Jacques & Julia: Cooking at Home Recipes, a favorite American cook show. Salad is always our favorite. I always aim for recipe that cater home cooking, so that I can share around the Family Table!
Ingredients
300gm of chicken breast, cut up into cube sizes
Directions
300gm of chicken breast, cut up into cube sizes
2 tsp of salt
2 tsp of ground white pepper
2 tbsp of olive oil
2 - 3 tbsp of lemon juice
1 cup of diced tender celery
1/2 cup diced big onion
30gm of chopped walnuts/almond/hazelnut
1/2 cup chopped parsley
1 tsp finely cut fresh tarragon leaves (or 1/4 tsp dried tarragon)
3 - 4 tbsp of mayonnaise
Fresh salad greens, washed and drained
For decoration:
Choice of sliced or chopped hard-boiled eggs, parsley sprigs, strips of red pimiento or tomatoes.
- Cook the chicken cubes in a pot of boiled water until cooked and drain it from the pot.
- Toss the chicken with salt, pepper, olive oil, lemon juice, celery, onion and the nuts.
- Cover and refrigerate at least 20 minutes or overnight.
- Take out the chicken from fridge, toss with parsley and tarragon (up to your taste).
- Fold in just enough mayonnaise.
- Cut or shred the salads, arrange on the platter, and mound the salad on top.
- Spread some mayonnaise coat over the chicken and decorate with eggs, parsley, pimiento strips or tomatoes.
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