This take on Waldorf salad uses grapes instead of the traditional apple. It's a great picnic salad.
Chicken salad with black grapes, walnuts and celery
Australian Gourmet Traveller recipe for Chicken salad with black grapes, walnuts and celery
- 30 mins preparation
- 1 hr 15 mins cooking
- Serves 6
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Ingredients
- 1 celeriac (500gm), diced
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 100 gm walnuts
- 170 gm seedless black grapes, halved
- 1 celery heart, thinly sliced, leaves reserved
- 3 golden shallots, thinly sliced
- 140 gm good-quality aïoli
- Juice of 1-2 lemons
- 1 tsp Champagne or Dijon mustard
- To serve: crusty baguette
Roast chicken
- 1 chicken (1.5kg)
- 4 thyme sprigs
- 2 garlic cloves, bruised
- 1 tbsp olive oil
Method
Main
- 1For roast chicken, preheat oven to 180C. Rinse chicken inside and out and pat dry with absorbent paper. Season to taste inside and out, place in a roasting pan, stuff cavity with thyme and garlic and drizzle skin with oil. Roast until chicken is golden and cooked through (1-1¼ hours).
- 2Meanwhile, cook celeriac in a saucepan of salted boiling water until tender (3-5 minutes). Drain well, then transfer to a large bowl.
- 3Heat oil in a small frying pan over medium heat, add walnuts and stir occasionally until golden (2-4 minutes). Drain, cool and add to celeriac with grapes, celery and shallot.
- 4Coarsely shred chicken (discard skin, bones and sinew) and add to bowl. Add aïoli, lemon juice to taste and mustard, season to taste and toss to combine. Scatter with celery leaves and serve with crusty baguette.
Notes
Drink Suggestion: 2009 All Saints Estate Family Cellar Chardonnay. Drink suggestion by All Saints Estate
