The Queens Golden Jubilee Chicken Official Recipes

Steps:

• Remove the skin and any bones from the chicken and cut into small pieces.
• Heat up the vegetable oil in a medium saucepan and add the onion. Cook on a medium heat for about 3 minutes until the Onion is soft and translucent.
• Add the curry paste, tomato puree, red wine, bay leaf and the lemon juice to the cooked onions.
• Lower the heat and simmer uncovered for about 10 minutes until reduced. Remove the bay leaf and leave to onion sauce to cool.
• Finely chop the apricot halves and puree them through a sieve or with a hand held blender.
• Place the pureed apricots into a bowl and mix in the mayonnaise.
• Add the onion sauce and apricot jam and mix well.
• Whip the cream to stiff peaks and fold this also into the mixture. Mix well.
• Season with salt & pepper and if necessary add a little extra Lemon Juice.
• Finally, fold in the chicken pieces coating them with the mixture well.
• Garnish with watercress and serve.
• Serves 4 to 6 as a salad with additional salad ingredients, or makes 8 rounds of sandwiches. Also wonderful as a vol au vents or pie filling.

Steps:

• Mix the marinade ingredients together in a shallow dish. Add the chicken and turn to coat thoroughly. Cover and refrigerate for 2-3 hours.
• To make dressing, place creme fraiche, mayonnaise, lime juice and zest in a bowl. Peel and grate the ginger, then twist in a piece of muslin, or press through a sieve to extract the juice. Add 2 tsp of the juice to the dressing. Stir, cover and chill to allow the flavors to develop.
• Scrape marinade from the chicken and pat dry with kitchen paper. Season the chicken with salt, pepper and nutmeg, and place in a roasting pan. Drizzle over olive oil.
• Roast in oven at 375 degrees F for 25 minutes, baste occasionally until the chicken is cooked through. Leave to cool completely, then cut into bite-sized pieces.
• Combine the chicken and dressing, adjust the seasoning, and refrigerate. Serve with a pasta salad, lime quarters and chopped flat leaf parsley.

Steps:

• Tumble the mango cubes and any juice it makes into a bowl and, with your hands, mix in the chopped scallion and chilli and squeeze over the lime juice; use as much or as little as you want.
• Tumble in the chunked chicken and shredded lettuce and most of the cilantro and, using your hands, toss to combine.
• Add the oils and toss again.
• Serve on a large serving plate and sprinkle over the remaining cilantro.

Steps:

• Chop onion and garlic.
• Place tomato puree, curry powder, 1 tablespoon lemon juice, mango chutney or apricot jam in a small saucepan and bring to the boil very slowly, stirring all the time.
• Add the chopped onion and garlic and put in a blender. Reduce to a puree.
• Mix together the mayonnaise and yoghurt and stir into the puree.
• Stir in the chicken. Toss grapes in remaining lemon juice and stir in gently with the apricots and celery.
• Taste and check seasoning.
• Chill in fridge overnight.
• Pile into an oval or square serving dish, garnish with small bunches of watercress.
• Srinkle the chicken mixture with the browned flaked almonds, and finally paprika.
• Serve with Rice and Wild Rice.
• Try using apricot jam in place of the mango chutney.

Steps:

• Heat oven to 160C/140C fan/gas 3. Sit the chicken in a large roasting tin. Mix together the turmeric, 1 tsp ginger, 1 tsp cumin, 1 tsp cinnamon and oil, then brush all over the chicken, making sure all of the spiced oil is used. Season well. Pour 250ml water into the bottom of the tin, cover with foil and seal around the edges. Put in the oven and cook for 2 hrs.
• Remove the foil and increase oven to 220C/200C fan/gas 7. Cook for a further 30 mins until the chicken is cooked through. Remove from the oven and leave until cool enough to handle. Strip the chicken meat from the carcass in chunky pieces and set aside.
• To make the salad, mix together the yogurt, mayonnaise, remaining 1 tsp each of ginger, cumin and cinnamon, cayenne pepper and pomegranate molasses or balsamic glaze. Add the chicken pieces, apples, all but a handful of the walnuts and parsley, and season.
• Spoon the salad onto a large plate. To serve, drizzle with a little pomegranate molasses or balsamic glaze and scatter over the pomegranate seeds, remaining walnuts and chopped parsley.