Fantastic Apricot Cold Chicken

Submitted by Dancer

"This makes a great light dinner or lunch. Serve with gourmet crackers or very fresh rolls. After playing around with this for a few days, it turned out great."

 

• Ready In: 20mins
• Ingredients: 16
• Serves: 4

ingredients

• 1⁄4 cup chopped red onion
• 1⁄4 cup dried apricot halves, cut in quarters
• 1⁄4 cup chopped red onion
• 2 tablespoons dry white wine
• 2 tablespoons unsweetened orange juice
• 1 1⁄2 teaspoons red wine vinegar
• 2 cups cooked chicken breasts, chopped
• 1⁄2 cup orange section, chopped coarsely
• 1⁄2 cup red seedless grapes or 1/2 cup green grape
• 1⁄4 cup cashew pieces, lightly toasted
• 1⁄4 cup chopped fresh parsley
• 1 teaspoon dried coriander
• 1⁄8 teaspoon pepper
• 1⁄8 teaspoon salt
• 1 pinch red pepper flakes
• 4 leaves red leaf lettuce

directions

1. Combine quartered apricot halves, chopped onion, white wine, orange juice, and red wine vinegar in a saucepan, and bring to a boil
2. Set aside to cool
3. Combine apricot mixture with chicken, orange, grapes, cashew pieces, parsley, coriander/cilantro pepper, salt, and crushed red pepper in a large bowl, cover and chill 1 to 2 hours
4. Spoon chicken mixture onto a lettuce lined platter to serve
5. Or place on 4 salad plates and serve

Reviews

[Nic2371]

I really like this salad, especially with the cashew pieces - they give it a lovely crunch. It's very colourful and full of flavour.

 

[adopt a greyhound]

Loved this salad with all the different flavors and textures. Did use kale and romaine for the lettuce. I will leave the cashews out until serving instead of chilling to keep the crunch.

 

[Susie D]

This is a very pretty salad! The colors are just wonderful. I used a mixture of green and red seedless grapes in this recipe along with the other listed fruits. The ingredient list has ½ cup purple onions listed twice. (?) I only used ½ cup. Next time I wouldn’t cook the onions for this salad as I think I would prefer them raw. I also will probably add a slightly stonger vinegarette just as a matter of personal preference. But again, I can’t say enough good things about this salads striking visual appeal

 

[Derf2440]

This is a lovely salad, we loved the dressing, the cashews and apricot added a wonderful taste and crunch and the red pepper flakes were a great finish. The instructions were well set out and easy to follow, but I did notice that the 1/4 cup of red onion was listed in the ingredients twice, while it was only used in the instructions once. We will be making this again, very refreshing and tasty, it does deserve the 5 stars, thanks for submitting it to the contest and good luck!!