Curried Chicken Salad
Sometimes, life calls for a picnic.
I just read Jules Clancy's stone soup blog (check for it here) and she had ten tips for a perfect picnic, some of which really made me smile (such as: make sure you have the weekend papers in tow).
I can't think of a better time for a picnic. So we just put together this quick curried salad and are ready for a lunch that's calm, quiet, and just for two.
Curried chicken salad is truly one of my passions. (I'm a man of simple tastes--except when it comes to music.) But here's the caveat: I'm not too partial to the standard, yellow curry powder, just an excuse for too much turmeric. Instead, I like a better balance of flavors--like the Sambhar Curry Powder from Whole Foods.
And I'll tell you one more thing: we didn't make our own chicken today. We had a store-bought rotisserie chicken left over from yesterday's recipe testing. Somedays, you just have to punt if you want to carve out time for yourself.
We skinned, boned, and roughly chopped the meat and mixed it with 6 thinly sliced celery ribs, 1/2 cup low-fat mayonnaise, 1/2 cup chopped roasted salted cashews, 1/3 cup low-fat plain yogurt, 1/4 cup mango chutney, 1 teaspoon curry powder, and the juice of a small lemon.
We stirred it up and are ready to go. Oh, and a book of Kate Ryan's poems. Because nothing slows the day down like reading poems to each other. That and curried chicken salad, of course.




















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Mmm. If I hadn't been so lazy for my picnic last week, maybe I'd have made this--looks divine, and I love, love chicken salad. But I made cookies for mine--check the link in my name for the recipe (Alice Medrich's--can't go wrong.)