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Fruity Chicken Salad With Clementine Dressing

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Fruity Chicken Salad With Clementine Dressing

A warm and zingy salad studded with fresh pomegranate seeds, which makes a refreshingly light lunch or supper dish.

  • Low Fat
Preparation time:
10 minutes
Cooking time:
25 minutes to 30 minutes
Total time:
35 minutes to 40 minutes 40 minutes
Serves:
 2

Ingredients

  • 2 Waitrose Chicken Breast Fillets
  • 1 ½ tbsp Dijon mustard
  • 200g bread, torn into chunks
  • 1 ½ tsp olive oil
  • 75ml freshly squeezed clementine juice (from approx 2 clementines)
  • 2 tbsp sherry vinegar
  • ½ pomegranate (or 100g Pomegranate seeds, available from the chiller cabinet)
  • 100g Pack Waitrose Wild Rocket and Chard Salad

Method

  1. Preheat the oven to 200°C, gas mark 6. Season the chicken and smear with 1 tablespoon mustard. Place in a small roasting tin and bake for 25-30 minutes or until cooked through. Set aside to rest for 5 minutes.
  2. Spread the chunks of bread on a baking tray, drizzle ½ teaspoon olive oil over and season. Mix using your hands, to coat the bread. Cook in the oven for 10 minutes or until the bread is golden and toasted.
  3. To make the dressing, place the clementine juice, the vinegar, and remaining oil and mustard in a small bowl. Whisk until smooth then season to taste.
  4. Remove the seeds from the pomegranate and place half of them in a large mixing bowl with the salad leaves. Cut the warm chicken into long diagonal slices and add to the bowl. Pour in the dressing and gently toss the salad.
  5. Divide the salad between 2 serving plates. Sprinkle with the remaining pomegranate seeds and the croutons, then serve.

Cook's tips

For a quicker version of this salad, swap the chicken for Waitrose Roast Chicken Breast Fillets or shred in leftover roast chicken or turkey meat.
For more about how to prepare a pomegranate go to waitrose.com/stepbystep.

Drinks recommendation

Chenin Blanc is a great match for this dish.

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Scrrrrumptious

Scrrrrumptious 17 June 2010 11:55

What an absolutely delicious recipe! I was a bit perturbed by the clementines/pomegranates at first, but the whole thing worked beautifully and was really delicious. I took Lucy's suggestion of lowering the bread count and bought a nice bread roll instead and croutonised that - gorgeous. Will definitely be making this again!

Lucy_Locket

Lucy_Locket 12 November 2007 07:24

Flavours excellent all the ingredients complemented each other. Generous portions (recipe could be for 3 people) and is definately a recipe I would make again BUT with less bread. 200g of bread (which is half a small loaf) made into croutons was too much for 2 people to get through. I will try this again with one slice of bread made into croutons and may put some plain rice on the plate. I also liked not needing to add or use salt or pepper.

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Nutritional Info

Typical values per serving:
Energy 568.0kcal
Sugars 13.9g
Fat 12.4g
Saturated Fat 2.3g
Salt 2.7g

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Drink recommendation

White wine is the perfect pairing with these flavours. Pick a bottle from our selection of white wine. (opens in a new window).


This recipe was first published on Waitrose.com in November 2007