Name: Coronation Chicken
Yield: 8 servings
Cuisine: English
Ingredients: 1 ea (2.3 kg / 5 lb), poached or other cooked chicken; 1 tbsp vegetable oil; 1 small, finely chopped onion; 1 tbsp curry paste; 1 tbsp tomato purée; 100 ml red wine; 1 bay leaf; 1/2, juiced lemon; 4 halves, finely chopped apricot; 300 ml (½ pint) mayonnaise; 100 ml (4 fl oz) whipping cream; as needed salt; as needed pepper; to garnish watercress

Chicken

8 servings

803 cal/serving

Instructions

Step 1

Skin the chicken if needed and cut into small pieces.

Chicken

Step 2

Warm the vegetable oil in a small saucepan.

Vegetable oil

Step 3

Add the onion and cook gently until soft (about 3 minutes).

Vegetable oilOnion

Step 4

Add curry paste, tomato purée, red wine, bay leaf and lemon juice to the pan.

Curry pasteTomato puréeRed wineBay leafLemon

Step 5

Simmer uncovered about 10 minutes until well reduced.

Curry pasteTomato puréeRed wineBay leafLemon

Step 6

Strain the sauce and leave it to cool.

Curry pasteTomato puréeRed wineBay leafLemon

Step 7

Purée the chopped apricots in a blender or processor.

Apricot

Step 8

Beat the cooled sauce into the mayonnaise with the apricot purée.

MayonnaiseApricotCurry pasteTomato puréeRed wineBay leafLemon

Step 9

Whip the cream to stiff peaks.

Whipping cream

Step 10

Fold the whipped cream into the mayonnaise/apricot mixture.

Whipping creamMayonnaiseApricot

Step 11

Season the mixture with salt, pepper and a little extra lemon juice if needed.

SaltPepperLemon

Step 12

Fold in the chicken pieces into the dressed mixture.

ChickenMayonnaise

Step 13

Garnish with watercress.

Watercress

Step 14

Serve.

This recipe is adapted from Wikibooks. It is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International.