Spring Salad of Smoked Chicken
Serves: 6
Ingredients
For the Salad Cream
2 eggs (whole) cooked for 5 minutes
15g Sugar
11g Salt
25ml Water
55g Chardonnay Wine Vinegar
50ml Double Cream
500ml Vegetable
For the Salad
2 Smoked Chicken Breasts
3 Gem Lettuces
100g Podded New Season Peas
100g Podded New Season Broad Beans
100g Tiny Jersey Royals cooked in seasoned water
2 Spring Onions, thinly sliced into ice water
3 Round Radish sliced into ice water
2 Mustard Cress
4 Asparagus Spears (optional)
3 Fresh Lovage Stems
Chopped Chives
METHOD
Blanch and refresh the peas, broad beans and asparagus.
Slice the spring onions and radishes into ice water.
Make the salad cream in a magimix by blending the egg, salt, sugar and water with the vinegar and slowly pour in the oil.
Finish with the cream and pass the dressing through a sieve.
Pick the chicken breast into strips and reserve.
Pick the leaves from the gem lettuce and reserve.
Place all of the lettuce, potatoes, radish, peas, asparagus and beans into a bowl with the chicken and dress liberally with the salad cream, season with salt and pepper
Dress the salad onto a platter finishing with the lovage and mustard cress and further salad cream from a squeezy bottle.