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How to make Chicken 4 Ways: Warm Chicken & Bread Salad (Part 3)

Serves 4

1 breast roasted chicken including skin, torn up into shreds
1/2 of the roasting/resting juices from a roast chicken
1/2 loaf bread, ripped up into chunks (fresh or stale both work)
1 bunch asparagus, trimmed and cut in half (or similar amount of green beans/runner beans etc)
3-4 cloves of roasted garlic (alternatively, grate 1 clove into the dressing)
1 sprig of rosemary, leaves picked
1 sprig thyme, leaves picked
1 pack cherry tomatoes, halved
small handful coriander, roughly chopped
small handful parsley, roughly chopped
a few basil leaves, torn
a good few glugs of extra virgin olive oil (or rapeseed oil)
Either 2 little gem lettuces or 1 romaine lettuce, cut into big chunks OR half a bag of mixed leaf
A few shaves of parmesan (optional)
4 spoonfuls of yoghurt (optional)

Pickle

100ml water
100ml white wine
100ml white wine vinegar
100g caster sugar
1 cucumber, sliced into thin rounds

Dressing

3 tbsp extra virgin olive oil (or rapeseed oil)
1 tbsp balsamic vinegar
1 tbsp white wine vinegar
1 tbsp wholegrain mustard
pinch salt

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[Music]hi so we’re gonna make a chicken saladwith one of the breasts of chicken of aroast chicken there’s gonna be a sort ofwarm chicken salad so we’re gonna usesome of the roasting juices to warmeverything up and make some croutonswith stale bread so first thing we’regonna do is get the croutons in they’regonna be nice big chunks and I’m gonnause this for that now this is theresting juices for the chicken I’m gonnause back half of this that I saved andthat’s just gonna go into it now this isall of the sort of the fat and thenjelly from the bottom of the roastingtin and when I cook to the chicken inthe first place all the good bits becomea mixture of Kent so this is sort ofit’s really hard and then some of it isfresh as well as so smooth through allthis should be crispy on the outside andchewy in the middle of the salt in thereas well 180 and to put these in therefor about 15-20 minutes and then we’regoing to add some other bits to it havebeen make some pickled cucumbers it’s anice one to use on pretty much anythinguserrestaurant so it’s 100 mils of whitevinegar at 100 mils of white wine 100mils of water and 100 grams of sugar soall you need to do is literally justbring it to the boil now I’ve got onecucumber here that I’ve just sliced emand because the cucumber’s by soft I’mjust gonna bring this to the boil andthen pour it straight over if you wouldwanted to pickle something this a bitharder and you might need to put theminto the liquor itself boil it for aminute or two and then take it out butbasically these cucumbers will then beready after a few minutes and thenthey’ll keep in the fridge for at leasta month so this is a really good basepickling liqueur and just as it isplaying if you were to add somearomatics Tyrion Lannister seeds or staranis things like that then you could andas it is I’m just going to do it plainto the boil all the sugars dissolved soI’m going to just pull that straightover these you can move that’s that sojust leave them to cool down and ifyou’re gonna use them like in this saladthey’ll be ready in about 5-10 minutesif not just pop them into airtightcontainer and keep in the fridgeokay so we’ve got bread there’s thankyou all chose to start to soak up allthe juices now I’m gonna get some greenin there so I’ve got some asparagus andas far as in season at the moment whichis great and I’m just gonna its raw soI’m just gonna put it in there and roastit with those take a maybe 5 minutes toroast now I’m also not a half of thegarlic bulb that I was roastingchicken so to squeeze out a few of thosegarlic cloves as well at this point theycan go in there some rosemary that I waswas in the chicken mother was roastedand was gonna strip some fresh thyme aswell a bit dry you can always add alittle bit more oil don’t be worriedabout the oil too much you’re gonnasplit this between a few people to meand rest of interest of shreds and pullthe skin in there as well okay so that’sbeen in I’ve got almost a full packet ofsherry smart as that just couldn’t beokay it’s not gonna go back in the oventhere so just put that to one side nowput my pickled cucumbers here put somechopped up coriander and parsley and alittle bit of basil just a little bit ofbasil and that can all go straight injust get all the good mix and you’re notthe dressing down don’t need to run allof it straight away add a bit of a goodtoss around taste it see if it needs[Music]I’m just going to add some like let’s uhsir how about a big release out of itideally I’d probably get a couple oflittle gem lettuces or a romaine lettucejust cut it into big chunks and mix thatup in there but they didn’t have any inthe supermarket so and next best thingand baguette of next leaf I’m just gonnaput that back in there and then thiswould be great with well I’m yourservant with a big blob of naturalyogurt on it and then maybe a bit ofbaguette in a bit of Commerce on theside and just took it yeah if you’ve gotany parmesan as well just shave a littlebit of that on there so that’s myleftover chicken and stale bread salad Ihope you do it[Music][Applause]you

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