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OK, this is a dish Trousers and I had in a posh pub once, and we loved the taste of it so much, that I spent time 'recreating it' as near-as-dammit as I could, so that we could enjoy it with our friends at home, and it goes VERY loosely like this:
Serves 6-8 as a starter or light salad lunch
1 whole smoked cooked chicken (am I allowed to say the word Waitrose?)
Not dead yet, so I think that maybe I am....
Hellmans Mayonnaise
Puy Lentils
Home-Sunblushed-Tomatoes
Home-grown Rocket and other salad leaves
Sea Salt & Freshly Ground Black Pepper
Now there's no right or wrong way of producing this dish really, because all you do is take all the smoked chicken meat off the carcass and put it in a bowl. Take sufficient of the smoked chicken meat for the number of peoples you're wanting to feed, and chop it coursely, mixing it with the, and it HAS to be Hellmans Mayo, until you've got a nicely 'moist' kind of Sandwich Mix consistency - get my drift? Okay. Now cover the bowl with clingfilm, and put it in your fridge for a while whilst you get a couple of Ramekin dishes or similar (depending on the size of portion you want to feed each person? up to you) and get the roll of clingfilm out of your drawer and lay a sheet of it tucked into and over the sides of each ramekin to line the inside.
Take the chicken mixture out of the fridge and fill each clingfilm-lined ramekin with it, pressing the mixture down with the back of a spoon, and then fold over the excess clingfilm over the top, to stop the mixture drying out, and place each of the ramekins back in the fridge to kind of set overnight.
When you're ready to serve them, unwrap the clingfilm from the exposed top end of the ramekin, up-end it that side down on the plate, and remove the ramekin/clingfilm bits. Are you still awake?
Then toss a lot of salad leaves, rocket and sunblush toms around it to make it look pretty.
Nudge me later to wake me up if you're interested in the Puy Lentil bit?
Trousers says you HAVE to have the Puy Lentils with it, or it's Not Cricket.
And actually, I agree with him, but who am I to say?
I thank you..... Curtsey. X
Serves 6-8 as a starter or light salad lunch
1 whole smoked cooked chicken (am I allowed to say the word Waitrose?)
Not dead yet, so I think that maybe I am....
Hellmans Mayonnaise
Puy Lentils
Home-Sunblushed-Tomatoes
Home-grown Rocket and other salad leaves
Sea Salt & Freshly Ground Black Pepper
Now there's no right or wrong way of producing this dish really, because all you do is take all the smoked chicken meat off the carcass and put it in a bowl. Take sufficient of the smoked chicken meat for the number of peoples you're wanting to feed, and chop it coursely, mixing it with the, and it HAS to be Hellmans Mayo, until you've got a nicely 'moist' kind of Sandwich Mix consistency - get my drift? Okay. Now cover the bowl with clingfilm, and put it in your fridge for a while whilst you get a couple of Ramekin dishes or similar (depending on the size of portion you want to feed each person? up to you) and get the roll of clingfilm out of your drawer and lay a sheet of it tucked into and over the sides of each ramekin to line the inside.
Take the chicken mixture out of the fridge and fill each clingfilm-lined ramekin with it, pressing the mixture down with the back of a spoon, and then fold over the excess clingfilm over the top, to stop the mixture drying out, and place each of the ramekins back in the fridge to kind of set overnight.
When you're ready to serve them, unwrap the clingfilm from the exposed top end of the ramekin, up-end it that side down on the plate, and remove the ramekin/clingfilm bits. Are you still awake?
Then toss a lot of salad leaves, rocket and sunblush toms around it to make it look pretty.
Nudge me later to wake me up if you're interested in the Puy Lentil bit?
Trousers says you HAVE to have the Puy Lentils with it, or it's Not Cricket.
And actually, I agree with him, but who am I to say?
I thank you..... Curtsey. X
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