Golden Chicken Salad

Total Time: 1 hr Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• 4 medium chicken breasts, cut into half inch sized cubes (boneless)
• 1 cup milk yoghurt, skimmed
• 4 medium apples, cored and cut into half inch sized pieces
• 2 teaspoons lemon juice
• 8 -10 lettuce leaves, soaked in chilled water
• 10 walnuts, blanched
• 2 slices pineapple, cut into half inch pieces
• 1 celery, chopped
• salt
• pepper powder

Recipe

• 1 poach the chicken breasts in two cups of boiling salted water.
• 2 drain the chicken breasts and then allow to cool completely.
• 3 in the meantime, hang yoghurt in a muslin cloth for 15 minutes to drain the excess liquid.
• 4 sprinkle lemon juice on the apples and mix thoroughly.
• 5 chop walnuts but do reserve a few to garnish.
• 6 mix chicken, apples, pineapple, chopped walnuts and celery in a bowl.
• 7 add yoghurt, salt and pepper powder to taste.
• 8 spread lettuce leaves on a serving dish.
• 9 arrange the salad on these lettuce leaves.
• 10 garnish the salad with the whole walnut kernels.
• 11 enjoy!