Warm chicken & chicory salad
By Sarah Cook
Add some crunch to your roast chicken with this flavour-packed winter salad
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Prep:30 mins
Cook:2 hrs 30 mins
Plus resting - Serves 6
- Easy
Nutrition per serving
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kcal 765
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fat 52g
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saturates 12g
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carbs 17g
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sugars 12g
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fibre 4g
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protein 58g
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salt 0.46g
Ingredients
- 1.6kg whole chicken
- 4 tbsp butter, at room temperature
- 200ml sherry vinegar, plus 1 tbsp
- 200g frozen peas
- 3 tbsp olive oil
- ½ tsp caster sugar
- 50g raisins
- 15g pack dill, roughly chopped
- 3 heads chicory, green, red or a mixture
- 50g mixed salad leaves (we used rocket and chard mix)
- 100g pine nuts, toasted
- crusty bread, to serve
Method
Heat oven to 160C/140C fan/gas 3. Rub the chicken all over with butter and season well, inside and out. Sit it in a small roasting tin, pour the Sherry vinegar around, and cover with foil. Roast for 2 hrs.
Meanwhile, get all of the remaining ingredients ready. Boil the peas for 1 min until just tender. Drain well, plunge into cold water to quickly cool, then drain again and set aside.
Once your chicken has roasted for 2 hrs, remove from oven. Pour the juices into a jug, then increase oven temp to 220C/200C fan/gas 7. Roast for a further 20-30 mins (without foil) until golden.
Skim the fat from the juices, then boil until you have about 100ml of juices left. Stir in the extra tbsp of vinegar, olive oil and caster sugar, taste, then tip onto your serving dish with the raisins.
When the chicken has finished its second roasting, leave until cool enough to handle (or pop on a pair of clean rubber gloves), then tear the meat in large pieces from the carcass, onto the serving dish. Add the dill, chicory, salad leaves, pine nuts and peas, then toss together with your hands. Serve straightaway with some crusty bread.
