Orange Chicken Salad

Name: Orange Chicken Salad
Yield: Serves four
Cuisine: Spanish
Ingredients: 3 large seedless oranges; mixed salad leaves, to serve; salt and ground black pepper; salt and ground black pepper; 2.5 ml/½ tsp caster (superfine) sugar; 175 ml/6 fl oz/¾ cup vinaigrette; 175 g/6 oz/scant 1 cup long grain rice; 10 ml/2 tsp strong Dijon mustard; 75 g/3 oz/¾ cup almonds or cashew nuts, toasted; 75 g/3 oz/¾ cup almonds or cashew nuts, toasted; 450 g/1lb cooked chicken, diced; 45 ml/3 tbsp chopped fresh chives

Preparation info

Serves
four

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Recipes from My Spanish Grandmother

By Pepita Aris

Published 2013

About

With their tangy flavour, orange segments are the perfect partner for tender chicken in this tasty rice salad. To appreciate all the flavours fully, serve the salad at room temperature. It makes the perfect dish for a hot summer day.

Ingredients

3 large seedless oranges
175 g/6 oz/scant 1 cup

Europe
Spain
Gluten-free
Summer

Method

Pare one of the oranges thinly, removing only the rind, not the white pith. Put the pieces of orange rind in a pan and add the rice. Pour in 475 ml/16 fl oz/

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