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Apple, chicory & pecan salad

Apple, chicory & pecan salad

A lovely healthy salad made from bitter chicory, chicken, crunchy sweet Pink Lady apples and nutty pecans, all drizzled with a creamy sesame seed dressing.

  • Preparation: 15 mins
  • Serves: 4

What you need:

  • 3 chicory bulbs, trimmed, quartered and leaves separated
  • 300g cooked chicken meat, shredded
  • 2 celery sticks, finely sliced
  • 1 Pink Lady apple, cored and finely sliced
  • 1 shallot, finely sliced
  • 50g pecans, toasted and chopped
  • juice 1/2 small lemon
  • 3 tbsp olive oil
  • 1 tbsp tahini
  • a small handful of fresh flat leaf parsley leaves
  • 50g parmesan shavings

What you do:

  1. Put the chicory onto a large platter. Scatter the chicken, celery, Pink Lady apple, shallots and pecans over the top.
  2. In a small bowl whisk together the lemon juice, olive oil and tahini until combined. Drizzle all over the salad and scatter over the parsley and parmesan.

Cook's tip:

If you can't find tahini, then you could use Dijon mustard instead.

To make a lower fat dressing, mix together 3 tbsp low fat plain yoghurt with the tahini instead of the oil.

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Pink Lady apples

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Pink Lady apples have a distinctive crisp texture and fizzy flavour – similar to champagne. It takes 200 days of tender care and, once ripe, each apple undergoes a rigorous quality control process to ensure that the high standard is kept – only the best apples can become a Pink Lady apple. Pink Lady apples are perfect culinary apples as they retain their texture and unique flavour and little, if any, additional sugar needs to be added.

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