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- Hey everybody, it's Bobby Deen here
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with another great recipe for you today,
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I think you're really going to enjoy.
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We make lots of different salads
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in our house and in our restaurant.
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And actually we started our business with the Bag Lady
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and the Bag Lady did lots of chicken salad, tuna salad,
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macaroni salad, pasta salad.
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If there was a salad you could make, believe me, we made it.
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So there's all sorts of different ways
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to flavor these things and different ingredients
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and things that you can add to them.
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One that I like is an Italian chicken salad.
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And so what makes it Italian?
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Well, pesto, mozzarella, and I guess the arugula maybe.
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Nah, not the arugula probably.
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But anyhow Italian chicken salad.
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And this is a pretty simple recipe.
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The chicken that you use,
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you know, it's pretty convenient to go to the store
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and buy rotisserie chickens.
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Nothing wrong with that.
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Or you could bake off your own chicken at home,
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you know, using legs and thighs and some breasts
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and have a mixture of white and dark meat
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would sort of make things a little bit more flavorful.
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So but anyway, you choose, it's up to you.
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So we'll start with the base, which is gonna be mayonnaise
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Now pesto sauce, like the rotisserie chicken,
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you can bu pre-made at the grocery store,
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if that's your thing, your fancy,
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or you can make it at home.
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It's not not too difficult to do.
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And pesto is gosh, I really like it.
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And actually one of my,
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you know, kids can be really picky eaters,
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but one of my children, seven year old child, loves pesto.
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So whenever I make spaghetti at home, she's like,
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"Dad, please make pesto.
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I don't want red sauce.
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Just happy to see them eating something green,
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All right, so we'll combine the mayonnaise, pesto, salt.
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And that's just a wonderful aroma from the pesto.
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And it's gonna be nice and maybe unexpected
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in our chicken salad.
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So to that, we'll go ahead and add our chicken.
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And we'll toss our chicken around in that pesto.
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Mmm-hmm, I think that'd probably already be pretty good
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So our pesto and chicken is pretty well combined.
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And we'll go ahead and add in our red peppers.
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It's gonna be really nice colors.
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And then the mozzarella cheese.
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We'll try to fold it all together
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without tearing things up too much.
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Mmm-hmm, doesn't that look good?
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This is a really hearty chicken salad.
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A sandwich, of course, I'm a sandwich man,
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but I would eat this on
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maybe a bed of lettuce.
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That's how I'm gonna serve it today.
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Or with crackers or on maybe a piece of sourdough toasted.
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Looks really, really good.
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So we'll use an ice cream scoop here,
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which is the way that we used to do this
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in the Bag Lady back in the day also.
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Put a couple of scoops of chicken salad.
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That looks really, really good.
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Little bit of the arugula too.
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Looks like I just made myself a lunch.
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Italian chicken salad, I recommend that you try it.
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Okay, see you next time.
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Hey, y'all, it's Paula Deen.
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