Chicken Salad with Couscous ....... minus oranges

Everyone is tired of hearing about the heat of summer. So I am not going to mention it, other than to say I have sought out cooler meals to put on the table in effort to keep the kitchen from heating up. Nigel Slater has a good recipe for using up leftover chicken, making a healthy salad type meal that's easy on the prep. That's a winner in my book.



Looking over this recipe earlier in the week I decided to make it, knowing there is always leftover chicken in our home. Pity I didn't write down the ingredients in my ever present pink notebook. Thinking I could remember it, I neglected to buy pea shoots and small oranges. That's fine as I usually take a recipe more like a guideline and omit or add as I think fit for our personal tastes.



Substituting skinny asparagus spears (roasted in the oven) gave this the green veg needed. Almost like the photo on BBC Recipes page. Almost.

I was able to make a dressing of orange and lemon as we had orange juice in the fridge. Served with a yellow squash casserole, the two lone leftover wings and Sugar Kiss Melon rounded out the meal. This was satisfying and after a lunch of salad, I was fairly ravenous.



The recipe may be found at BBC under the Food and Recipes link. HERE is the direct link for this meal. Since Nigel calls this a salad I will link up to Deb's Kahakai Kitchen for her Souper Sunday event. {It seems cheating in a way as this is chopped chicken over couscous, but salad it is named so there it is!}



If anyone else made soup, sandwiches or salads don't forget Deb in Hawaii has a linkup for her Souper Sunday. HERE is this week's link, you don't have to post on Sunday.

Also linking up to I ♥ Cooking Club.