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because I wanna show you an old Southern favorite.
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We can't have a tea, or a shower, or a wedding
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without serving chicken salad.
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And I like to keep my chicken salad very, very simple.
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Now, you can use any kinda chicken you want.
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You can use like a whole chicken,
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you can use a dark and a white.
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You can go to the grocery store
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and get a rotisserie chicken.
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Some of the best chicken salad I've ever eaten is made
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You know, pullin' off the crust and the skin.
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This particular chicken has just been poached
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in a little bit of water.
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So, in the bowl that goes,
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and I'm probably using it three pounds.
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And a little bit of celery.
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I love celery in my chicken salad.
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I love the crunchy that it gives it.
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If you don't like that crunchiness
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you can substitute like a celery seed, and that's nice too.
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This is a very, very simple uncomplicated
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but good tasting chicken salad.
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Now, I've got a lemon here.
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I'm gonna just squeeze a little lemon juice.
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I'll probably use a tablespoon or two.
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About a half of a lemon,
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and that'll give it a nice little tart taste.
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So, in that goes, and I'm gonna use about
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a third of a cup of sliced toasted almonds.
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And then I'm gonna add about a half a cup of mayonnaise,
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and you can do it to taste.
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Some people like theirs more on the dry side.
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I'm kind of a wet girl.
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You know how I love my mayonnaise.
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This is such a simple, simple food,
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but the way we served it on the silver platters,
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it really brought the chicken salad
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up in a very special way.
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Gonna add a little bit more.
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Now, I'm gonna grab my salt and pepper.
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Just a little bit of salt.
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It's not gonna need much because I had salted the water
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that I poached my chicken in.
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Little bit of pepper.
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Now, for our bread, for these sandwiches,
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we did not waste our time makin' homemade rolls.
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I just contacted the bakery department,
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my favorite supermarket here on the island,
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and I had them just make me up some wonderful
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little dinner rolls to put my chicken salad on.
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It made the party go a lot easier.
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So, all we did was just pile that chicken salad
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up on that roll, just like that.
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It's finger lickin' good.
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So simple and delicious.
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And we dressed it up with our sandwich picks.
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And we have some beautiful little bamboo picks,
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and then we've got some of the paper frill picks.
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Now, chicken salad's a very humble food.
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But by the time we put it on that beautiful silver tray
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they looked like they were as yummy as any filet mignon.
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In fact, come on over here and I wanna show you.
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This is just what the trays looked like.
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And we just used a leaf from my cast iron plant
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out in the yard, and a little bundle of fresh flowers.
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And how beautiful and elegant that is,
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but very, very simple.
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And those yummy, yummy Southern flavors, mmm,
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Hey, y'all, it's Paula Deen.
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Love and Best Dishes Y'all.
