Smoked chicken, grape and Crozier Blue salad

Serves: 2
Course: Starter
Cooking Time: 0 hr 15 mins
Ingredients
  • 50ml apple juice
  • 2 heaped tbsp crème fraiche
  • Salt and pepper
  • 4 Little Gem lettuce, trimmed, washed and dried
  • 1 breast smoked chicken, thinly sliced.
  • 16 seedless grapes, halved
  • 80g Crozier Blue or anther ripe blue cheese, crumbled
  • A good pinch of flaked almonds, toasted
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1 Blend the apple juice with the crème fraiche, season and set aside.

2 When ready to serve, turn the lettuce in the dressing, making sure there is a light coating on every leaf.

3 Assemble the salad with the leaves on the base, followed by the chicken, the grapes, the blue cheese and finally the almonds.

Paul Flynn

Paul Flynn

Paul Flynn is a chef, restaurateur and contributor to The Irish Times. He and his wife, Máire, run the Tannery restaurant and cookery school in Dungarvan, Co Waterford