Smokey Jo’s Coronation Chicken Recipe

Of course, we wouldn’t expect you to go through the trouble of cooking your own chicken when you can easily use our Smoked Chicken as a luxurious and fabulously simple substitute. Why not try Smokey Jo’s Coronation Chicken Recipe?

Serves 6

Ingredients

8 x 170g Smoked Chicken Breasts
190ml Cotswold Gold Mayonnaise
1tbsp Fino Olive Oil
95ml Yoghurt
1 small Onion, peeled and chopped
1 tbsp freshly ground garam masala
¼ pint stock – use water and a ¼ stock cube
1 rounded tsp Tomato Puree
2 rounded tbsp gooseberry or apricot jam or sweet chutney
3 tbsp single cream
Fresh lemon juice
Handful chopped Hazelnuts
Plain boiled rice, cold, to serve
Tomatoes, deseeded and quartered
Cucumber, diced
A handful of seedless raisins or fresh diced pineapple, to serve

To prepare the sauce – Heat the Fino Olive Oil in a saucepan, add the onion, cover and fry very gently for 5 minutes until soft.

Stir in the garam masala and cook for a further few minutes to bring out the flavour. Stir in the stock, tomato puree, strained lemon juice and jam or chutney. Stir until boiling, then simmer for 5 minutes.

Draw off the heat and strain the sauce into a basin. Allow to cool, then stir in the Mayonnaise, cream, and yoghurt.

Cut the Smoked Chicken into chunky pieces and arrange in a serving dish. Spoon over the curry mayonnaise and serve with plain boiled cold rice tossed in French dressing with deseeded quartered tomatoes, diced cucumber and a few seedless raisins or diced fresh pineapple added.

Finish with a handful of chopped hazelnuts and enjoy!

For more Coronation Chicken recipes, why not head over to our blog?