NEW POTATO & MUSTARD CHICKEN SALAD, small or family households, lower-fat

Quick and easy tasty summery salad prepped the night before... 

One of the nicest, quickest healthy salads of new potatoes and chicken

Cooked New potatoes and chunks of chicken breast bathed in a creamy mustardy dressing...what more could one want on a rainy or broiling August Sunday.  

Everything can be prepared the night before. 

If you can't find baby new potatoes* use regular sized ones and cut them up.

Don't be worried by the amount of mustard; it doesn't dominate and blends beautifully with the yoghurt-mayo dressing.

Cost:£2'ish

Feeds: 2 but recipe multiples easily

Ingreds:

250g/8.8oz baby potatoes

1 good-sized chicken breast

lettuce

cucumber

baby tomatoes

Dressing

2 heaping tablespoons plain Greek or other thick yoghurt

1 heaping tablespoon mayonnaise

1 tablespoon grain mustard

1/2 tbsp Dijon mustard

1/2 tbsp apple cider or other vinegar

pepper & salt 

Garnish: thinly sliced red onions

             fresh herbs (opt)

Method:

1. Cook washed, unpeeled potatoes in boiling salted water 15 mins or until a knife meets a little resistance in the middle.  Drain, set over empty pan. Cool, peel if you like.  Refrigerate.
2. Bring a small pan of water to the boil, (water should cover chicken completely) drop in chicken breast bottom side down; leave 2 mins, carefully turn over, leaved another 3 mins; turn off heat and cover; leave 15-20 mins.  until chicken is no longer pink inside.    Cool: refrigerate overnight
3. Mix dressing ingredients; cover & refrigerate.
4. When ready to serve, halve baby tomatoes across the circumference; lightly mix with potatoes and chicken
5. Moisten but don't overwhelm with dressing.
6. Line a bowl or platter with lettuce leaves & cucumber slices, leaving a gap in the middle.
7. Heap potato-chicken mix in the middle, garnish with red onion rings and herbs, if using.

Comment: 

'The mustard dressing, which is not strong, really perks up the new potatoes and chicken breast.  I would have this again.'

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This recipe was developed by B  Lee/Bright Sun Enterprises and may not be reproduced, in any form, without the author's written permission.