Chicken Salad Tea Sandwiches with Smoked Almonds

Chicken Salad Tea Sandwiches with Smoked Almonds
…a tasty sandwich from our dear customer, Julie E. in California!

Makes 48 tea sandwiches.

3 cups chicken broth
2 whole boneless chicken breasts with skin, halved (about 1 1/2 pounds)
1 cup mayonnaise
1/4 cup minced shallot
1/4 cup minced apple (optional)
1 1/2 tsp. minced fresh tarragon leaves
Salt and pepper to taste
24 thin slices of bread
1/2 cup finely chopped smoked almonds (about 2 ounces)
1/2 cup softened butter

1. In a deep 10″ covered skillet, bring broth to a boil and add chicken breasts in one layer. Reduce heat and poach chicken at a bare simmer, turning once. Approximately 7 minutes.

2. Remove skillet from heat and cool chicken, covered, in cooking liquid 20 minutes. Discard skin and shred chicken fine.

3. In a bowl, stir together chicken, 1/2 cup mayonnaise, shallot, tarragon & apple. Salt and pepper to taste.

4. Thinly butter all slices of bread. Spread 12 slices with the chicken mixture and top with remaining 12 bread slices, butter down. Press gently together. (At this point you can wrap each sandwich in plastic wrap and refrigerate until the next day if desired.)

5. Trim crusts and cut each sandwich in half and then half again, making either squares or triangles.

6. Put chopped, smoked almonds on a small plate. Spread one or all edges of each sandwich with remaining mayonnaise and roll edges in almonds.

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Chicken Salad Ribbons

Chicken Salad Ribbons
(makes approximately 36 1/2″ sandwiches)

2 large loaves of bakery bread, sliced horizontally (one wheat, one white)
4-5 cups of chicken salad**
2 packages (8 ounce) of cream cheese, softened
1 small can of crushed pineapple, drained
softened butter or margarine

1. Discard top and bottom slices of loaves. Mix together drained pineapple and cream cheese and set aside, but do not refrigerate.

2. Lightly butter one side of a wheat slice of bread then spread with a layer of chicken salad. Lightly butter one side of a white slice of bread and place on top of chicken salad, buttered side down.

3. Lightly butter other side of white slice then spread with a layer of pineapple/cream heese mixture. Lightly butter one side of another wheat slice of bread and place butter side down on cream cheese mixture.

4. Cut off crusts on all four sides of sandwich to form a long rectangle. Cut rectangle in half
to form 2 squares. Wrap each square snugly in plastic wrap and refrigerate 3-4 hours
or overnight.

5. Continue making sandwiches with remainder of bread slices, alternating wheat and white
slices. Remove plastic wrap and slice each square into 6-8 sandwiches, approximately
1/2″ thick.

**See following recipes.

Chicken Salad
(makes 4-5 cups)

3 cans (10 ounce) of chicken, drained
1/2 cup finely chopped onion
1/2 cup finely chopped celery
Salt and pepper to taste
Mayonaisse
1/2 cup fiinely chopped pecans or walnuts(optional)

1. Drain chicken. Combine with onion, celery & nuts.

2. Add mayonaisse one large tablespoon (about 1/4 cup) at a time until moist and creamy.

3. Adjust flavor with salt and pepper to taste.

4. Refrigerate for an hour then check again. If too dry, add more mayonaisse.

Curry Chicken Salad & Chutney Ribbons (makes approximately 36 1/2″ sandwiches)

Follow the above recipe for Chicken Salad Ribbons, except substitute the following
Curry Chicken Salad recipe for the above Chicken Salad and replace the crushed
pineapple with a fruit chutney.

Curry Chicken Salad
(makes 4-5 cups)

Follow above Chicken Salad recipe but substitute mayonnaise for curry mayonnaise sauce (see following recipe) and omit the nuts.

Curry Mayonnaise Sauce
(makes approx. 3 1/2 cups)

3 cups mayonnaise
2 Tablespoons vegetable oil
1 medium to large onion, finely chopped
4 teaspoons curry

1 ¼ cups tomato juice
1/2 cup red wine
2 Tablespoons apricot jam
2 Tablespoons warm water, if needed

1. Heat oil in frying pan. Saute onion until tender. Stir in curry and simmer 2 minutes.

2. Stir in tomato juice and red wine. Bring to a boil and stir in jam until dissolved.

3. Remove from heat and cool slightly. Strain mixture over a bowl, extracting as much liquid as possible.

4. Cool and stir in mayonaisse. Sauce should  be able to coat a spoon. Add warm water if too thick. Store in airtight container for up to 1 week.

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