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Chicken Salad with Celery and Grapes
I never tried fresh celery stems before we got to US. I was more familiar with celery root – it is largely used to prepare soups and stew or even salads of European cousines, but I can’t say eating stem parts of it is as popular in Europe as in US.
According to wikipedia, celery is a source of good low-calorie dietary fibre, which makes it not only tasty (btw I found taste of it fascinating) and also healthy.
Saying all of that, here comes the nice salad recipe for fresh celery stems and boiled white chicken meat; grapes give it a little kick in flavor, as well as almonds. Hope you will like it.
Ingredients:
- 1.5 lb of boneless skinless chicken breast
- 4 stems of fresh celery
- 1 lb of seedless grapes (grapes with seeds can be cleaned, but that is a bit of a hassle)
- Almonds
- Fresh parsley
- Mayonnaise
- Salt to taste
- Shredded cheese of your choice to taste (optional)
- Shredded lettuce for decoration (optional)
How to prepare, step-by-step:
- Prepare ingredients:
Chicken Salad with Celery and Grapes Recipe: Step 1
- Put chicken breasts to the salted boiling water and boil them for about 15-20 mins until ready, then get them out of water and set aside to cool down:
Chicken Salad with Celery and Grapes Recipe: Step 2
- Roast almonds on moderate-hot skillet for about 10 mins so they gain more flavor, stir occasionally, then remove from the burner:
Chicken Salad with Celery and Grapes Recipe: Step 3
- Rinse and remove hard parts from celery stems, dice celery, then move to the salad bowl:
Chicken Salad with Celery and Grapes Recipe: Step 4
- Once chicken meat is cooled till room temperature, dice it into medium pieces, and add to the salad bowl:
Chicken Salad with Celery and Grapes Recipe: Step 5
- Carefully grate almonds on the small slots of grater until you get about 2 tablespoons of almond “powder” or a bit more to taste (remaining almonds can be eaten
):
Chicken Salad with Celery and Grapes Recipe: Step 6
- Add grated almonds (2 tablespoons or more to taste) to the salad bowl, season with salt:
Chicken Salad with Celery and Grapes Recipe: Step 7
- Rinse grapes and remove them from the stems, if they have seeds – cut each grape in half and remove seeds:
Chicken Salad with Celery and Grapes Recipe: Step 8
- Then put grapes to the salad bowl:
Chicken Salad with Celery and Grapes Recipe: Step 9
- Rinse and chop green parsley, add chopped parsley to the salad bowl:
Chicken Salad with Celery and Grapes Recipe: Step 10
- Dress with mayonnaise:
Chicken Salad with Celery and Grapes Recipe: Step 11
- And finely mix:
Chicken Salad with Celery and Grapes Recipe: Step 12
- Serve on a bed of shredded lettuce topped with cheese of your choice:
Chicken Salad with Celery and Grapes
Enjoy!
Wow. Looks fantastic! I love the addition of almonds in it (big almond fan). The presentation is also great. Presentation can make a big difference when you’re serving someone because they get the “ooohs” out before even trying it, and it sets the stage well.
This is the best cold salad recipe of this summer season and I`m all out to try it. The presentation is of accurate and precise.