Smoked Chicken & Quinoa Salad
with Caramelised Walnuts
This sweet, rich salad is our favourite kind – one that doesn’t feel like a salad at all. Really, it’s just a greatest hits of some of our favourite ingredients: superfood quinoa, sweet apple and delicious caramelised walnuts. Is your mouth watering yet? The incredible flavour of smoked chicken is this dish’s crowning glory.
The quantities provided above are averages only.
Produced in a facility that processes eggs, milk, fish, peanuts, sesame, shellfish, soy, tree nuts and wheat.
Ingredients
1 packet
quinoa
1 cube
chicken stock
1 packet
snow peas
½
red onion
1 packet
walnuts
(Contains: Walnut; May be present: Milk, Peanuts, Sesame, Soy, Almond, Brazil nut, Cashew, Hazelnut, Macadamia, Pine Nut, Pistachio, Pecan.)
1 portion
Smoked Chicken
1
apple
½ bunch
mint
Not included in your delivery
2 cup
boiling water
1.5 tbs
olive oil
2 tsp
butter
(Contains: Milk;)
2 tsp
honey
2 tsp
apple cider vinegar
Utensils
Cooking Steps
To prepare the ingredients, rinse the quinoa well. Crumble the chicken stock, trim the snow peas, and finely slice the red onion, smoked chicken, and mint. Quarter the apple and finely slice.
Place the rinsed quinoa in a medium saucepan with the chicken stock cube and the boiling water. Bring to the boil and then reduce to a simmer for 12-15 minutes, or until the quinoa is tender. Add the snow peas in the last 2 minutes. Drain well. Set aside in the sieve to cool slightly. Transfer the quinoa and snow peas to a large bowl.
Meanwhile, heat half of the olive oil in a medium frying pan. Add the red onion and cook, stirring, for 3 minutes, or until soft. Transfer to a small bowl.
Return the same pan to a medium-high heat and melt the butter. Add the honey and cook for 30 seconds, or until bubbling. Add the walnuts, toss to coat well and cook for a further 30 seconds, or until golden. Season with salt. Remove from the pan and transfer to a plate lined with baking paper. Cool.
Add the smoked chicken, cooked onion, apple, mint and caramelised walnuts to the quinoa and snow pea mixture. Drizzle with the olive oil and apple cider vinegar and toss to coat well.
To serve, divide salad between plates and season to taste with salt and pepper.
