Name: Smoked Chicken Salad with Grapes & Parmesan-Tarragon Dressing
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: 1 container vegetable sprouts, such as red cabbage or radish sprouts (alfalfa and garden cress are great too); 2 heads Belgian endive, cut into thin strips; 3 tablespoons home made mayonnaise; 2 smoked chicken breasts (or smoked trout fillet!), cut into strips; A handful of seedless white grapes, halved; 6 tablespoons (50 g) shelled pistachios, coarsely chopped; Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper; 7 tablespoons (100 g) plain Greek yogurt (10% fat); 2 tablespoons white wine vinegar; 1½ teaspoons dried tarragon; ½ cup (50 g) finely grated Parmesan cheese; 1 small fennel bulb, very thinly shaved, fronds reserved for garnish; Juice of 1 lemon

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Home Made Christmas

By Yvette van Boven

Published 2018

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I’m a big proponent of fresh herbs, but sometimes the dried variety has a completely different flavor from the fresh one. Dried oregano, for example, has a taste all its own, one that lends itself better to certain recipes. Or take fresh cilantro and dried coriander seeds: They taste totally dissimilar!

The same goes for tarragon: Fresh tarragon tastes like fresh licorice or anise, while the taste of dried tarragon is much richer—almost creamy! This is precisely why it works so well