Roast chicken Caesar salad
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Easy
- September 2009

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Serves 4
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Takes 15 minutes to make, 1 hour 35 minutes to cook
Turn a typical chicken Caesar salad into something really special by adding juicy roast chicken.
- Calories
- 573kcals
- Fat
- 32.5g (9g saturated)
- Protein
- 50.1g
- Carbohydrates
- 21g (2.4g sugar)
- Salt
- 2.6g
Ingredients
- Large, 1.7kg free-range chicken
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 1 lemon, cut into 4 wedges
- 6 smoked streaky bacon rashers
- 3 thick slices white bread or a small ciabatta loaf, cut into 1.5cm cubes
- 1 romaine lettuce, roughly torn into pieces
- Handful rocket leaves
- 4 anchovy fillets, roughly chopped
- 1 garlic clove, crushed
- ½ tsp Dijon mustard
- 3 tbsp extra-virgin olive oil
- 50g Parmesan or Grana Padano, roughly grated
Method
- Preheat the oven to 200°C/fan180°C/gas 6. Place the chicken in a large roasting tin, rub the oil all over it and sprinkle with a little sea salt and plenty of ground black pepper. Squeeze over the juice of 2 of the lemon wedges and roast for 1¼ hours.
- Add the bacon to the roasting tin and cook for a further 10 minutes until the bacon is crisp and the chicken is cooked and golden.
- Remove the chicken and bacon from the tin and set aside on a board. Add the bread to the roasting tin and toss well with the pan juices. Roast for 8-10 minutes until golden.
- Roughly chop the bacon, together with the chicken leg and thigh meat, into pieces (reserve the chicken breasts for the soup, overleaf). Place the cos lettuce and rocket in 4 serving bowls, then top with the chicken, bacon and croutons.
- Whizz the anchovies, garlic and Dijon in a small food processor until mixed. Pour in the extra-virgin olive oil and squeeze in the juice from the remaining lemon wedges. Toss the dressing through the salad and sprinkle with the grated Parmesan.
delicious. tips
If you cook a whole chicken to make the chicken Caesar salad, you can make the roast chicken and summer vegetable soup as well. If you just want to make the salad, roast 6 chicken thighs, slashed, in the same way, for 15-20 minutes. For a creamy blue cheese dressing, swap the anchovy fillets for a little Dolcelatte.
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