Coronation Chicken

This is a classic English favourite.

Ingredients:

• 1 large chicken
• 5 sticks celery, sliced
• 1 large apple, peeled and sliced or a cup of grapes, halved
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• 2 cups mayonnaise
• 2 cups heavy cream or full-fat yoghurt
• 2 tsp. curry powder
• 1 tsp. apricot jam (optional)
• flaked almonds, lightly toasted

Directions:

Poach the chicken and when it is cooked, skin it and cut it up into bits, taking the meat off the bones.

Mix together cream, mayonnaise, curry powder and apricot jam until fully incorporated.

Put chicken pieces in dish with apple/grapes and celery and cover with mayonnaise mixture, top with toasted almonds.

Put in fridge till ready for use.

By Lucy