While your chicken is chilling, gather your remaining ingredients. Once your chicken cubes are cut and completely cooled, store them in an airtight container in the refrigerator for at least 4 hours before mixing with the remaining ingredients. Allow the chicken to rest for 5-10 minutes before removing the bones and dicing it into ¾”cubes. Cook for 10-15 minutes, or until the juices from the chicken run clear after cutting into it. Bring to a boil, then cover and reduce heat to medium. Pour 4 cups of broth over your chicken breasts, then season liberally with kosher salt and ground black pepper. In a large pot over medium-high heat, add your chicken breasts. For reference, I used a 2.5 lb skinless, split chicken breast, bone-in to yield 3 cups of diced chicken. To get started, you will need to cook your chicken. Skinless split chicken breast, bone-in (about 2.5 lbs)ġ/2 cup mayo (Duke's is my brand of choice) These are the ingredients you’ll need to make my recipe: I hope you will try making my recipe, which makes about 1 quart of chicken salad. Richards closed its doors in 2015, so I had to come up with a tarragon chicken salad recipe of my own.Ĭhicken salad is quite simple to make. Almost every time we ate lunch there, I would get a scoop of their tarragon chicken salad. When my husband and I were newlyweds, we lived in Forest Park (an old historic neighborhood in Birmingham), and V. I was first introduced to this type of chicken salad years ago at a small restaurant/grocery store called V. Tarragon lends a delightful flavor to my recipe for chicken salad. I haven’t met a chicken salad I don’t like, but I LOVE tarragon chicken salad. chunked chicken with or without pecans and grapes using mayo vs.
#CHICKEN SALAD RECIPE WITH TARRAGON HOW TO#
Texture and flavor come to mind when deciding how to make chicken salad. For example, shredded chicken vs. With so many ways to make chicken salad, the options seem endless when it comes to creating a recipe. Most people have an opinion about what type of chicken salad they enjoy eating. You need to give the flavors a chance to blend to really decide what (and if) you need to customize.Let’s talk chicken salad for a minute. The only thing I would recommend is to start on the conservative side with your seasoning, then check after the salad has had time to sit an hour or two in the fridge. Just in case your store is out though, I’m including measurements for dry and fresh tarragon so you may use whatever you have available. The only challenge I sometimes have is in in finding the fresh tarragon. In fact, it’s a great meal prep recipe for lunch! I make a big batch of this and my curry chicken salad, and then the family uses it for easy salads and wraps for the week.
I also love that chicken salad lasts a few days in the refrigerator. Want to make chicken salad with leftover chicken? Perfect! Want to roast up a chicken or a few chicken breasts for chicken salad? That works too! I am all about “work with what you have” savory recipes. That, and it’s such an easy recipe to scale. I don’t know if it’s the variety of textures, or the contrast between the different flavors, but there’s definitely a reason chicken salad is such a classic. The flavors were just wonderful! Why don’t I cook more often with tarragon? I took a picture of the ingredient list and whipped up my own version.ĭarlings, this is amazing! There’s something so satisfying about a creamy chicken salad. I chose a sandwich from the cooler – a tarragon chicken salad croissant. We stopped by the small sandwich shop on the ground floor. We were in DC one weekend taking a family trip to the National Building Museum, and decided we needed lunch.
But I didn’t originally create this beautiful dish for entertaining, I made it for lunch. Tip: Chicken salad is great for entertaining when spread on small baguette rounds or put in toasted phyllo cups. Expect to see it slightly overused as the holidays approach and I delve into serious entertaining mode, even if it’s just entertaining small groups. I’d like to start off by saying how much I love the word soiree. A classic for everything from sandwiches to entertaining, tarragon chicken salad is perfect for the golf course, a lunch box, or a party!
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