Tarragon Chicken Salad

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Chicken crockery is timeless; chickenhearted crockery flavored with tarragon — oregon sometimes dill — and studded with nuts and effect was a 1980s special. In this recipe, Martha Stewart doubles down connected the sweet-and-savory operation by serving her chickenhearted crockery connected slices of nutty, cinnamon-spiced carrot breadstuff (see related recipe). It was fashionable astatine parties, arsenic an hors d’oeuvre.

Stewart suggests grapes oregon apples arsenic imaginable mix-ins and notes that cucumber oregon baguette rounds would marque good bases; endive boats oregon lettuce wraps would besides enactment arsenic would crispy croissants oregon toast.

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NOTE: If chickenhearted breasts are precise large, chopped them successful fractional earlier roasting for faster roasting.

The chickenhearted tin beryllium roasted, cooled and refrigerated 2 days successful advance. The chickenhearted crockery tin beryllium refrigerated successful an airtight instrumentality for up to 3 days.

Adapted from “Entertaining” by Martha Stewart (Clarkson Potter, 1982).

Ingredients

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Servings: 4-6 (makes 4 cups)

  • Unsalted butter, astatine country temperature
  • 1/4 (about 3 ounces) achromatic oregon yellowish onion, thinly sliced
  • Leaves of caller herbs, specified arsenic parsley, thyme and basil
  • 2 bone-in, skin-on chickenhearted breasts (about 10 ounces each)
  • Juice of 1/4 lemon
  • Fine salt
  • Freshly crushed achromatic pepper
  • 1 1/2 tablespoons chopped caller tarragon (may substitute 1 1/2 teaspoons dried tarragon)
  • 1 1/2 tablespoons sour cream, oregon much arsenic needed
  • 1 1/2 tablespoons mayonnaise, oregon much arsenic needed
  • 1/2 cupful finely chopped celery (optional)
  • 1/2 cupful (about 2 ounces) chopped pecans (optional)

Nutritional Facts

Per serving (scant 3/4 cup) based connected 6

  • Calories

    140

  • Fat

    6 g

  • Saturated Fat

    2 g

  • Sodium

    180 mg

  • Cholesterol

    60 mg

  • Protein

    21 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from “Entertaining” by Martha Stewart (Clarkson Potter, 1982).

Tested by Ann Maloney.

Published October 9, 2017

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Updated March 17, 2026

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