Chicken mayonnaise is a cold dish, perfectly suited for a casual lunch with kids, a summer luncheon or the very popular kitty parties that us ladies take delight in attending. I love the way protein is stacked on to starch with dairy to hold it all together. Yum! It’s a cracking combination and the last bite is never the last one. The verdict-a well-presented, neat dish.

Ingredients:

  • 1 tbsp. butter or margarine
  • 1-1/2 tbsp. flour
  • 1 cup milk (for white sauce)
  • Salt
  • Pepper
  • 2 tbsp. lemon juice
  • 4 medium potatoes
  • 10 tbsp. milk (for mashed potatoes)

    Instructions:

    White sauce
    • Melt 1 tbsp. of butter in a saucepan,over low heat.
    • Add the flour and mix well.
    • Add 1 cup milk, salt, pepper and stir constantly over medium heat till the mixture thickens and coats the back of a spoon well.
    • Remove from flame and squeeze 2 tbsps. lemon juice,stir and keep to a side.
    Mashed Potatoes
    • Boil potatoes, till very tender.
    • Peel and mash them with salt, pepper and 10 tbsps. milk.
    • Press it on the bottom of a serving plate.
    Chicken
    • Boil 1 chicken with garlic, roughly milled pepper an d salt, till tender.
    • Cool and remove meat from bones.
    • Shred into bite-size pieces.
    • Add the prepared white sauce and mayonnaise with chicken.
    • Adjust reasoning.
    • Pile mixture on top of potatoes.
    • Decorate with tomatoes, olives, cucumber and capsicum.
    • Chill for at least 4 hours.

    I am a self-taught cook, with of course lots of help and encouragement from my mommy and a tremendous amount of support from my hubby. Cooking is cathartic for me; it relaxes me and the sense of achievement I get after a well cooked meal is second-to-none. Teamed up with my love for reading and writing,its pure joy. Most of my recipes are my mother’s -she is my greatest inspiration and go-to person for culinary emergencies (we all have them, don’t we?)- and from magazines such as Good Housekeeping and Hello. Having spent a couple of years in South-east Asia, (read Singapore and Malaysia), I caught a very oriental bug. Which is…which is… well its using my cell phone to take snaps of the meals I am about to gobble up. In my defense, it’s strictly limited to my travels abroad. For that, I have dedicated a picture blog called ‘Food Casserole.’