The Ultimate Chicken Salad

It is Spring and I added all I could find in my garden to this wonderful salad.  At this time nature is pouring goodness and very little effort is needed to bring out the flavours. It is the right time to start eating healthy!  Chicken can also be grilled.  You can have the second serving without the guilt of over indulging!

1 large chicken breast
Bunch of rocket leaf
1 small red leaf salad
4 hard boiled eggs
3 medium potatoes
4 globe artichokes
1 khol rabi
1 celery stick thinly sliced
1 cucumber
1 handful of cherry tomatoes
1 tsp honey
1 cup plain yoghurt
1 tbsp lemon juice
1 tsp grain mustard
1 tbsp cider vinegar
3 tbsp olive oil
Salt & pepper
Extra Sea salt for poaching

Cut chicken breast in four pieces lengthways, add to saucepan and cover with water, add 1/2 tsp salt and bring to boil, simmer for 10 minutes or till it is just cooked from centre.  Drain and keep covered.  

Remove outer leaves from Artichokes till you reach the soft inner leaves, trim hard tops, then slice in half and remove the hairy chokes, slice then cover with water and 1/2 tsp salt and bring to boil. Boil for ten minutes or until just tender. Drain well.

Clean the potatoes, cut into halves then into 2cm cubes, cover with water add 1/2 tsp salt and bring to boil. Boil for 15minutes or until cooked then drain.

Prepare a large serving salad bowl, add cleaned and trimmed rocket leaves, then roughly chopped lettuce. Peel the khol rabi and grate coarsely. Add to salad leaves. Add potatoes, and sliced cherry tomatoes and thinly sliced celery.

Peel cucumber and remove the inner seeds. Slice half of it and add it to salad bowl.  Dice the remaining cucumber into small cubes, add to a small bowl, add yoghurt salt and pepper and stir well.

Prepare the mustard dressing by adding to a bowl, olive oil, lemon juice, mustard, cider vinegar honey salt and pepper and whisk well till it emuslify and thicken.

Toss gently the salad , then add cooked artichokes. Slice the chicken, and arrange on top.  Pour over the yoghurt mix and drizzle the honey dressing all over.