Chicken Waldorf Salad

Use your Thermomix to make this classic salad that was first served in the legendary Waldorf Astoria Hotel in 1893.
Makes:
4 portions
Prep Time:
15
Cook Time:
40

Ingredients

  • Chicken

  • 500 g hot water

  • 500 g chicken breasts

    cut into slices (1 cm thickness)

  • 1 tsp dried tarragon

  • olive oil

    for drizzling

  • ground black pepper

    to season

  • salt

    to season

  • Waldorf salad

  • 100 g mayonnaise

  • 20 g lemon juice

  • 60 g sour cream

  • 1 tsp Dijon mustard

  • 1/2 tsp salt

  • 1 bunch watercress

  • 1/2 fresh pineapple

    peeled, cored, quartered and cut into thin slices (see notes)

  • 2 celery stalks

    cut into thin slices

  • 1 red apple

    unpeeled, cored and cut into thin slices

  • 2 spring onions/shallots

    trimmed, and cut into thin slices

  • 1 orange

    peeled and segmented (optional)

  • 50 g walnuts

    broken into pieces (optional)

Equipment

  • 1 Thermomix

Instructions

  1. Chicken
  2. Place water into mixing bowl. Place Varoma into position and weigh chicken into it. Sprinkle chicken with tarragon, drizzle with oil and season with salt and pepper, then secure Varoma lid and steam 8-10 min/Varoma/speed 4 or until chicken is cooked. Remove Varoma and set aside to cool. Rinse mixing bowl.
  3. Waldorf salad
  4. Place mayonnaise, lemon juice, sour cream, Dijon mustard, salt and pepper into mixing bowl and mix 5 sec/speed 6. Transfer into a bowl. Add cooled chicken and toss to coat.
  5. Arrange watercress onto a serving platter. Top with pineapple, celery, apple, spring onions/shallots, orange segments (optional) and coated chicken with dressing. Sprinkle with walnuts (optional) to serve.

Notes

If pineapple isn't available or in season, you can replace it with red or green seedless grapes. To save time, you can prepare your fruit and vegetables while your chicken is steaming.

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