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My Easy Recipe For Tasty Coronation Chicken (Or Turkey)

This is a really easy and tasty recipe for Coronation Chicken.

There does seem to be some confusion over the origins of Coronation Chicken, but generally it is believed to have been created by Constance Spry and Rosemary Hulme for the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953. Coronation Chicken consists of cooked chicken in a creamy curry sauce that can be used in sandwiches, in a salad, or my favourite, on a baked potato.

The Coronation Chicken works just as well if you substitute the chicken with cold cooked turkey!

Contents at a Glance

Ingredients You Will Need To Make The Co...
The Quick Curry Paste Recipe I Use To Ma...
If You Don't Have The Spices To Make The...
How To Make The Coronation Chicken
Leftover turkey from Christmas or Thanks...
People Are Blogging About Coronation Chi...

The recipe makes enough Coronation Chicken for two servings but the ingredients can easily be adjusted for more servings

1 medium,cooked, chicken breast, shredded. (Use any part of the bird you choose, but an amount equivalent to 1 breast.)

2 spring onions, sliced

½ apple - peeled and cubed

Large knob of butter or ghee (Indian clarified butter, available in many supermarkets)

1tbsp of curry paste.... See below

150ml red wine, or white if that's all you have

Small handful of sultanas

1tbsp of jam. (any you like but avoid types with small pips. Try apricot or blueberry)

1 tbsp mayonnaise

Yogurt or crème fraiche to taste. (This really depends on what you're using your Coronation Chicken for. You'll want it to be quite stiff for sandwiches, less so for a baked potato. You'll probably want to use between 1 ½ and 4 tablespoons)

Seasoning to taste

The Quick Curry Paste Recipe I Use To Make The Coronation Chicken

1 garlic clove, crushed

Level tsp cumin powder

½ tsp turmeric

Level tsp tandoori powder

¼ tsp hot chilli powder ( or more if you dare!)

½ tsp garam masala

½ tsp ground ginger

Normally I would mix the spices into a paste with a small amount of vegetable oil before adding it to a dish, but, as there will be quite a lot of butter or ghee in your saucepan, just stir the above ingredients in.

If You Don't Have The Spices To Make The Curry Paste For The Coronation Chicken

Patak's Balti Paste 10oz

Amazon Price: (as of 05/31/2012)

Pataks Balti curry paste makes a fantastic, simple alternative. Just add a tablespoon of this instead of the spices.

How To Make The Coronation Chicken

Melt the butter in a saucepan and soften the onion and apple.
Add the bought curry paste or ingredients listed above. Cook for about 5 minutes until the paste has cooked out.
Add the wine, jam and saltanas and cook to reduce the liquid by nearly half. (Think about the consistency you want the Coronation chicken to be when the mayonnaise and yogurt are added)
Leave the sauce to cool completely then add the shredded chicken, mayonnaise / crème fraiche and season to taste.

The Coronation Chicken is ideally made at least 4 hours before you want to eat it, this gives the flavors time to infuse.

Leftover turkey from Christmas or Thanksgiving

will work equally as well with this recipe!

People Are Blogging About Coronation Chicken

Coronation Chicken: endless work, stunning results: This is the famous Coronation Chicken (later called Chicken Elizabeth) invented by the Cordon Bleu Cookery School in London and prepared for the queen upon her elevation to the British throne 60 years ago. The story is in tomorrow's Boston Globe.
Recipe for coronation chicken: Cover with parchment paper and cook for 25 to 30 minutes or until the chicken is firm to the touch and cooked through. 3. Remove from the oven and set aside to cool. Transfer the chicken to a container to chill. (Use the cooking liquid in any recipe ...
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Queen's Diamond Jubilee: How to make Jubilee Coronation Chicken: As part of the Telegraph's Diamond Jubilee street party food series, the Telegraph's Xanthe Clay and the Big Lunch's Camilla Baker tell you how to make delicious Coronation Chicken. Jonathan is a consummate Anglophile with an obsession for Britain that ...

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Coronation chicken | Gordon Ramsay | Food and Drink - Times Online: Originally created to celebrate the Queen's coronation, this dish has been
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Nigella Lawson: A really easy, no-fuss way of ending up with fabulous-tasting Coronation Chicken.

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Nspired2 Dec 13, 2011 @ 9:00 am | delete

I love chicken & I must try this! Will let you know how it comes out...thanks for putting up this tasty lens.