My Favourite Ever Chicken Salad
All Original Recipe ideas by Lorraine Elliott
This is one of my favourite salads and a real crowd pleaser if you're taking it to a picnic or a gathering. Even though I'm not a huge celery fan, it earns its place in this salad by adding a fantastic crunch along with the walnuts.
Preparation time: 15 minutes
Cooking time: 0 minutes
Serves: 6-8 (perfect for a crowd)
- 1 Woolworths Macro free range roast chicken
- 1 green shallot, sliced
- 3/4 cup mayonnaise
- 1/2 cup walnuts, chopped
- 1-2 sticks celery, chopped
- 1/4 cup chopped sweet pickles
- 3 tablespoons chopped fresh tarragon
- 2 tablespoons sesame seeds toasted
Step 1 - Remove the meat from the chicken-you should get around 3.5-4 cups of chicken meat. Mix this along with the rest of the ingredients together in a large bowl. Serve with greens or on its own.
Refreshing Limeade
If you've ever baulked at the cost of limes but love citrus drinks like limeade these frozen lime slices are perfect to keep in your freezer. They come already sliced up so all you do is muddle them in a light sugar syrup. This is utterly refreshing and perfect for a hot day!
Makes 1 litre Limeade
Preparation time: 7 minutes
Cooking time: 7 minutes
- 1 cup water
- 1/2-2/3 cup white sugar (depending on how sweet you want it)
- 1.5 cups Woolworths Frozen Lime Slices (freezer section)
- Caviar beads from 2 finger limes
- 750ml soda water, chilled
Step 1 - Boil the water with the sugar until the sugar has dissolved. Add the lime slices and cook for 3-4 minutes. Remove from heat and muddle using a French rolling pin or end of a thick wooden spoon. Allow to cool completely.
Step 2 - Pour into a large 1 litre jug along with finger lime caviar and top up with soda water.
Polenta & Parmesan Chips with Pesto Aioli
Like a lower fat version of hot chips, these polenta and parmesan chips are just like at your favourite restaurant. Baked rather than fried they are crispy on the outside and soft on the inside. I'd even suggest making double for a crowd they're that good.
Preparation time: 3 minutes
Cooking time: 15 minutes
- Woolworths Polenta & Parmesan Chips (250g, freezer section)
- 1/4 cup Woolworths Garlic Aioli
- 1 tablespoons Woolworths Select Pesto Basil
- Parmesan cheese for sprinkling
- Basil leaves for decoration
Step 1 - Preheat oven to 200C/400F and line a baking tray with parchment. Place chips in a single layer and bake for 15 minutes or until crispy.
Step 2 - Meanwhile mix the pesto and aioli and place in a small side dish. Grate parmesan cheese on top, add basil leaves and serve with the pesto aioli.
Six Layer Salad
The perfect entertaining salad, this six layer salad melds fresh vegetables and potato, quinoa and bean and pasta salads. This is a real time saver and can feed up to a dozen people as part of a spread.
Preparation time: 15-20 minutes
Cooking time: 0 minutes
- 800g Woolworths Potato Egg And Bacon Salad
- 2 avocados, skin and pit removed and chopped
- 800g Woolworths Ancient Grain Salad
- 2x200g punnets Solanato Tomato, 3/4 of them quartered, 1/4 halved
- 2x350g Woolworths Basil Pesto Pasta Salad
- 300g corn, drained
- 1/4 cup chives, chopped
Step 1 - Take a trifle bowl and layer the bottom with potato, egg and bacon salad. Add the diced avocado. Then layer with ancient grain salad pressing down gently to create a smooth surface.
Step 2 - Then add the tomatoes-I put a layer of the halved tomatoes cut side facing out and then placed the quartered tomatoes in the centre. Add the basil pesto pasta salad on top of this. Then add the corn on top and then sprinkle with chives.
Nashville Hot Chicken With Maple & Waffles
Now Nashville hot chicken is an entirely different beast than chicken and waffles. Usually Nashville hot chicken is served with a piece of white supermarket bread and not with maple syrup and waffles. But hear me out Dear Reader, sweet goes so well with spicy (think sweet chilli sauce) and while this was delicious without the maple, once I drizzled maple syrup on the chicken it became one of those things that I could not stop eating!
Preparation time: 10 minutes
Cooking time: 45 minutes
- 850g Woolworths Southern Style Crumbed Chicken Pieces (freezer section)
- 2 teaspoons smoked hot paprika
- 2 tablespoons rice bran oil
- 1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper (or to taste)
- 130g packet English waffles (6 pieces)
- 250g Woolworths Maple & Bacon Salad Kit or American slaw
Step 1 - Preheat oven to 200C/400F and line a baking tray with parchment. Lay out chicken pieces in a single layer and sprinkle with hot paprika. Combine oil and cayenne pepper and brush it over the pieces. Bake for 40-45 minutes or until done.
Step 2 - Make the salad by adding the cranberries and bacon bits and then add dressing and toss. Just before serving toast the waffles and add the salad and chicken. Serve with maple syrup (it may sound odd but trust me, it's delicious!).
Beef Brisket & Quick Potato Salad
This recipe saves so much time but the end result doesn't show it (honestly you have to try this!). Beef brisket is a big deal. It takes ages to make and you need a smoker as well. This beef brisket is super soft and tender and tastes like it came from Texas. All you have to do is heat it up in the oven for 30 minutes. For the true Texas experience, eat it with your hands, unadorned without sauce.
Japanese potato salad is definitely not on the menu at a bbq restaurant but hear me out. Most of us have probably tried potato salad but have you ever tried a Japanese potato salad? It's amazing! A Japanese potato salad is mostly made up of soft mashed potato with boiled eggs, mayonnaise, onion, carrot and cucumber. It too can be quite a production but I found a fun use for the Woolworths roasted garlic mash. All I had to do was add the mix ins and condiments and I had a divine Japanese potato salad to go with my beef brisket!
Preparation time: 15-20 minutes
Cooking time: 35 minutes
Serves 4-6
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2x 750g Woolworths Simply Heat Smoked Beef Brisket
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2x 475g Woolworths Roasted Garlic Mash
- 3 boiled eggs
- 1 small red onion, finely diced
- 3/4 Lebanese cucumber, thinly sliced
- 1 small carrot, shredded
- 3/4 cup kewpie mayonnaise
- 1 tablespoon rice vinegar
- 2 teaspoons sugar
- Salt and pepper to season
Step 1 - Heat BBQ with the lid on to medium heat. Cook the brisket for 30 minutes per 500g of meat. OR cover with oiled foil and roast in a 210C oven for 25 minutes per 500g. Remove foil and cook for 5 minutes. Rest for 10 minutes then slice.
Step 2 - Make the potato salad while the meat is cooking. I find it easiest to have all the ingredients measured out and then you just mix it all up together (don't heat the mash). Season with salt and pepper.
Quick Chocolate Peppermint Ice Cream Cake
Ice Cream cakes usually require freezing for a few hours or overnight to set the entire thing. This one sets in an hour as it uses ice cream sandwiches wedged with some peppermint chocolate cream so freezing time is a lot shorter! The decoration is a cinch too!
- 2 packets Woolworths Peppermint Chocolate Flakes Ice Cream Sandwich (8 in total freezer section)
- 600ml cream
- 4 tablespoons honey or sugar
- 5 Peppermint crisp bars
- 1 tablespoon cocoa powder
- Fresh mint leaves to decorate
Step 1 - Line a long loaf tin on the base and sides with parchment. Smash up 2 of the peppermint crisp bars and set aside. Whip the cream with honey or sugar until soft peaks form and then mix in the smashed chocolate bars.
Step 2 - Spread some on the base and sides of the lined tin. Line with the ice cream sandwiches and the smooth some more cream to fill in the gaps and make another layer of ice cream sandwiches. Cover with some more of the peppermint cream and cover and freeze. It should be set in about an hour or so since the inside is made up of frozen ice cream sandwiches.
Step 3 - Dust with cocoa powder and then the remaining smashed peppermint bars.
Peanut Butter Salted Chocolate Chip Ice Cream Sandwiches
These peanut butter salted chocolate chip ice cream sandwiches are the ultimate easy dessert. Sometimes biscuits can get soft in the freezer but these King of Chunky Chocolate Chip Cookies stay crisp as you make them fresh every time!
Preparation time: 5 minutes
Cooking time: 0 minutes
- 1 litre tub of Woolworths Peanut Butter and Salted chocolate Ice Cream
- 1/2 cup creamy or chunky peanut butter
- 310g box Woolworths The King Of Chunky Chocolate Chip Cookies
Step 1 - Leave ice cream out for 5 minutes to soften a bit. Spread peanut butter on the inside of one cookie. Scoop some ice cream on top and press down with another cookie. Freeze until needed.