Salmagundy: Warm Roast Chicken Salad With Summer Slaw | Guest Recipes | Nigella's Recipes | Nigella Lawson

Salmagundy: Warm Roast Chicken Salad With Summer Slaw | Guest Recipes | Nigella's Recipes | Nigella Lawson

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This ancient dish makes marvellous use of abundant seasonal produce. The ingredients listed will make an epic, splendid salad.

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Ingredients

  • 1 whole very, very good chicken (roughly 1.5kg in weight)
  • 3 soup spoons olive oil
  • 1 - 2 different blousy lettuce (such as Bibb or Webbs)
  • a small bunch of mint (leaves picked and torn)
  • a bunch of bright, fresh watercress
  • 150 grams new potatoes (scrubbed and boiled)
  • 3 soft-boiled organic eggs (peeled and cut in half)
  • 150 grams green beans (topped, tailed, boiled and cooled)
  • 4 ripe tomatoes (cut into quarters or sixths)
  • a pinch of fresh marjoram and summer savory too, if possible (leaves carefully picked)
  • 2 oranges (peeled and segments removed from between each membrane)
  • 6 - 8 anchovy fillets
  • 1 soup spoon salted capers (soaked for 30 minutes in cold water, then drained)
  • 24 black olives Niçoise or Kalamata (stones removed)
  • 1 heaped soup spoon chopped flatleaf parsley
  • 1 small savoy cabbage
  • the leafy heart of a head of celery
  • 6 spring onions
  • juice and grated zest of 1 unwaxed orange
  • juice and grated zest of 1 unwaxed lemon
  • 3 soup spoons extra virgin olive oil
  • 1 soup spoon organic cider vinegar

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