Bajan Chicken Salad

Name: Bajan Chicken Salad
Yield: A Totally Tropical Supper for 2
Cuisine: Americas
Ingredients: 1 small jicama** or white radish (daikon), peeled and diced; 1 red onion, diced; dash of hot pepper sauce; ½ tsp dried oregano; 1 red chilli, finely chopped (or use green for less heat); ½ tsp ground allspice; 2 tbsp extra-virgin olive oil; 1 tbsp peanut oil; 2 skinless, boneless chicken breasts; big handful of fresh parsley, chopped; salt; 75 g/2¾ oz. scant ½ cup dried gungo peas* (or 1 can/400 g/14 oz., soaked for 6 hours; ¼ tsp ground cumin; 1 garlic clove, minced; juice and grated zest of 1 lime; 1 mango, carefully peeled and diced; ½ tsp paprika; 1 lime; 1 bunch of fresh chives, chopped

Preparation info

A Totally Tropical Supper for
2

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Salmagundi

By Sally Butcher

Published 2014

About

Sometimes a shopkeeper has to go to great lengths to get proper time off, to get their little emporium covered. Mr Shopkeeper and I decided we really needed a holiday, but the only way that we could bully the stand-in to, well, stand in for us was to come up with something truly dramatic. Which is how we ended up getting married, for who can deny a couple’s right to have a pukka honeymoon? This is a roundabout way of explaining how we came to fall a little bit in love with