FOOD IN A FLASH: GREEN GODDESS CHICKEN SALAD

Bottled Green Goddess Dressing and Rotisserie Chicken creates a Spring Salad that will take your breath away.

This salad is a salute to Spring. Green Goddess Dressing—a mixture of mayo, sour cream, anchovies, lemon juice, garlic, parsley, and chives makes it creamy rich.  But the real heroes here are the green vegetables and herbs that bring this salad more flavor than I ever thought possible. One special ingredient that kicks the whole salad up a notch: Peppadew Peppers! And the rotisserie chicken is the icing on the cake.

Food In A Flash: Storebought Dressing and Rotisserie Chicken bring this Salad together in no time.

           You can make your own Green Goddess Dressing. The inspiration for today’s post did. I found it while searching for Rotisserie Chicken dishes in Food&Wine Magazine. Melissa Rubel Jacobson was its author.  Melissa has created dozens of recipes for Food&Wine and an astonishing number of them have received 5-star ratings from her audience. Melissa’s recipe doesn’t take our shortcut. So if you’d like to see and/or make your own Green Goddess Dressing, here’s the link to her recipe for Green Goddess Chicken Salad. https://www.foodandwine.com/recipes/green-goddess-chicken-salad. Melissa did go with Rotisserie Chicken. That’s a separate topic that we covered in a post on the country’s most popular Rotisserie Chicken: the one that comes from Costco. Here it is:  https://chewingthefat.us.com/2015/10/best-costco-rotisserie-chicken-recipes.html.  We’re so fond of rotisserie chicken, you’ll find another post with 10 ways to use the bird right after today’s recipe.

How Green Goddess Dressing got its name

Green Goddess Salad Dressing has an intriguing backstory dating to the early 20th century. Legend has it that this iconic dressing was crafted at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco during the 1920s. It pays tribute to actor George Arliss, who was then starring in the play “The Green Goddess.” Its green hue was said to mirror the color of the play’s titular character, and it quickly gained popularity. The Palace Hotel’s kitchen was a hotbed of culinary invention in the 1920s. Not only did it produce the recipe for Green Goddess, but it was also given credit for our beloved Turkey Tetrazzini. Famous Opera Singer Luisa Tetrazzini was honored with a dish ‘as rich and extravagant as her voice’. Although slightly out of season, here’s our recipe for that incredible dish: https://chewingthefat.us.com/2022/11/leftovers-turkey-tetrazini-so-good.html

Here’s today’s recipe. And after it the promised 10 Rotisserie Chicken Recipes

FOOD IN A FLASH; GREEN GODDESS CHICKEN SALAD

May 17, 2024

Servings: 4 Easily halved for 2 or doubled for 8

Total: 25 min

Difficulty: If you can chop, you can make this great salad in under 25 minutes

A terrific salad that smells like Spring. The crunch of celery and cucumbers, the creamy tart and herby Green Goddess dressing gives a real oomph to Rotisserie Chicken

By: Monte Mathews

Ingredients

• 1/2 bottle of Green Goddess Salad Dressing (or to taste)
• Rotisserie Chicken, skin and bones discarded, pulled into large bite-sized pieces.
• 3 Persian Cucumbers sliced in half moons
• 3 inner Celery ribs including leaves, sliced into 1/4 inch dice
• 16 Peppadew Peppers, halved
• 1 cup packed Parsley Leaves
• 1/2 cup whole Basil leaves
• 1 cup of Cherry Tomatoes, halved
• Salt and Freshly Ground Pepper

Directions

• Step 1 In a large bowl, combine cucumber, celery, Peppadews, parsley and chicken. Toss together.
• Step 2 Stir in Green Goddess Dressing to taste.
• Step 3 Salt and Pepper to taste.
• Step 4 Add Grape Tomatoes and gently mix into salad.
• Step 5 Plate salad and top with Basil leaves.
• Step 6 Serve with Crusty Baguette

And here you go!

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