Red cabbage and chicken Waldorf salad

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Red cabbage and chicken Waldorf salad

Prep Time15

Total Time15

Course: Dinner

Cuisine: English

Diet: Gluten Free

Other: Freezes Well

Servings:

Calories: 459kcal

Author: Thrifty Lesley

Equipment

chopping board
small sharp knife
frying pan
serving bowl

Ingredients

Salad

140 g chicken cooked, or a little more if uncooked
260 g red cabbage
2 apples
4 sticks celery
200 g grapes
100 g walnuts
1 tblsp lemon juice
salt and pepper

Dressing

6 tblsp mayonnaise or half mayonnaise and half thick Greek yogurt

Instructions

Prepare the fruit and vegetables

Start off by preparing the fruit and vegetables. Shred the red cabbage as finely as you can.
Core and dice the apples, don’t peel them.
Put in a bowl and mix with the lemon juice, this helps stop them going brown.
Halve the grapes.
Finely slice the celery.
Toast the walnuts.
Chop the chicken quite small, you only want small pieces of it in this.
Mix everything together well. This mixture will sit and wait in the fridge, don’t add the dressing yet, the salt will draw out water and make your salad watery.

Dressing

For the dressing you can use all mayonnaise or half mayonnaise and half thick Greek yogurt. Mix it well if using half and half.
When you are ready to serve, mix the dressing with the vegetables.

Notes

This salad is great or slimmers who can control how much dressing to use, it is less than 500 calories a serving as it is. If taking as a packed lunch, pack the dressing separately as the salt will draw out moisture from the vegetables and make it watery

What changes can I make to this Waldorf salad with chicken

the red cabbage can be green or white cabbage, Chinese leaves or any kind of lettuce
make a bed of the shredded cabbage or lettuce and pile the rest of the salad on top
change the nuts to whatever other nuts you want to use, or leave them out
use any colour grapes you have, it won't make much difference to the flavour, just the look
add some Aleppo or black pepper
use another crunchy vegetable in place of the celery - thinly sliced radish or mooli, fennel slivers, beetroot or carrot matchsticks

This recipe is part of a series to feed your family for a week on 1 medium chicken that has been poached.

Poached chicken recipes

this comes out at a total of 28 portions, which I think is pretty good!

1. Poached chicken
2. Spaghetti with olives, sultanas and lemon 140g chicken
3. Oaty, nutty, seedy chicken and mushroom crumble 140g chicken
4. Chicken and rice salad - red peppers from a jar, peas, gherkins, raisins 140g chicken and some of the stock
5. Chicken and something Pizza, sweetcorn, onion, red pepper, mozzarella and cheddar 140g chicken
6. Coronation Chicken Jacket Potato – 140g chicken
7. Red Cabbage Waldorf with apple, walnut and dressing – 140g chicken, this recipe
8. Chicken Tart with Butternut Squash, Lemon Zest & Parmesan – 140g chicken

this comes out at a total of 28 portions, which is amazing!

There is another series, with all different recipes, starting from a roasted chicken

Roasted chicken recipes

Roast chicken, 400g chicken, gravy, with stuffing, 4 portions
Risotto, 140g chicken, onion, half the the stock, some vegetables butter and parmesan, 4 portions
Pizza, 117g chicken, tomato sauce, maybe some stuffing, 4 portions
Spicy Pasta Bake, white sauce, 120g chicken, onion, spices, stuffing, 4 portions
Tart, 100g chicken, onions, sweetcorn, couple of eggs, no cheese, stuffing, 4 portions
Pie, 100g chicken, some of the gravy, onion, maybe some sweetcorn or mushrooms, maybe some stuffing, 4 portions
Soup with the remaining half of the stock, red lentils, onion, spices, 4 portions

this also comes out at a total of 28 portions

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