Recipe - Thai-Style Chicken Salad On Cumin Quick Bread

CHICKEN SALAD
One fourth cup Fresh lime juice
1 teaspoon Salt
One half teaspoon Chili powder
One fourth cup Finely chopped fresh
coriander
One fourth cup Finely chopped fresh mint
leaves
A pinch of sugar
2 Poached whole skinless
boneless chicken breasts;
(about 1 One fourth pounds),
minces (about 3 cups)
1/3 cup Finely chopped shallot
1/3 cup Thinly cut or sliced up scallion
One fourth cup Mayonnaise; or to taste
1 Loaf of Cumin Quick Bread

GARNISH
One half cup Mayonnaise; about
Finely chopped fresh parsley
leaves

Make chicken salad: In a large bowl whisk together the lime juice, the
salt, the chili powder, the coriander, the mint, and the sugar, stir in the
chicken, the shallot, and the scallion, and stir in the mayonnaise. (The
chicken salad may be made 1 day in advance and kept overed and chilled.)

Cut the bread into 1/3inchthick slices, spread each of half the slices

with a scant 2 tablespoons of the chicken salad, and top the chicken salad
with the remaining slices. Cut each sandwich in half. Spread a thin layer
of the mayonnaise on one of the edges of each sandwich and dip it in the
parsley.

Makes about 34 sandwiches.

Gourmet June 1990

Posted to recipeludigest by Sandy sandysno@pctech.net on Mar 16, 1998