by Micah Reeves

Created on: August 24, 2007

Chicken Salad with Chutney

2 boneless chicken breasts
3 medium size apples
3 tbsp. mango-ginger chutney
1 1/2 cup grapes
1 cup orange juice
1/2 cup toasted coconut
3 cups romaine lettuce
2 tablespoons vanilla flavoring
1 1/2 to 2 cups mayonnaise. You can substitute Low-fat mayonnaise for fewer calories.

In a large frying pan cook chicken breasts after spraying pan with non-stick oil. Let pan heat up. Add orange juice and vanilla flavoring to pan and cover. Cook on medium heat allowing juice and flavoring to seep into chicken until liquid is gone. Turn off heat and allow chicken to cool.

Peel and chop up apples to desired size, after rinsing them. For better taste, cut apples into small cubes.

Rinse and drain grapes and cut each grape in half. You can also cut in thirds if you prefer.

Cut up your chicken breasts. A good way to do this is too cut diagonally all the across each chicken breast and then horizontally.

In medium sized salad bowl, add chicken, lettuce, apples and grapes. You can toast the coconut easily by spreading it out thinly on a cookie sheet and putting in oven at 350 degrees for about one minute. Watch closely since every oven is different. You will be able to tell by looking at it, if that is sufficient time by how brown the coconut is. If not brown enough, stick in oven again, but watch it carefully so it doesn't burn. Once cooled, add coconut to your salad mixture.

Add 1 1/2 cups mayonnaise and mix well. If you like a more slippery salad add additional mayonnaise until satisfied with result. Now add your mango-ginger chutney on top.

Put covered salad into refrigerator and let cool completely. It will take approximately 3 hours for it to be completely chilled and ready to eat. This serves 2-3 people. Divide salad into 2 or 3 salad bowls when ready to serve.

It is really just up to your imagination for recipes and uses for Chutney. Let your creativity roam and make up your own version.

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