Coronation Chicken recipe is a simple, tasty dish consisting of cold chicken, a mildly spiced curry cream sauce, mango chutney, and a fruit blend. It is versatile and has many uses as a sandwich filling or piled onto jacket potatoes and green salads.
If you are a curry lover, here are more of my delicious curry recipes to satisfy your taste buds: Chicken Chickpea Curry, Easy Beef Curry Recipe, or Simple Chicken Biryani Recipe.
In 2023, there was another Coronation for King Charles III, who chose the dish Coronation Quiche as his special recipe for the event.
Constance Spry, an English food writer and flower arranger, and Rosemary Hume, a chef, are credited with the invention of coronation chicken.
Preparing the food for the banquet of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953, Spry proposed the recipe of cold chicken, curry cream sauce, and dressing that would later become known as coronation chicken.
Coronation Chicken may have been inspired by Jubilee Chicken, a dish prepared for the silver jubilee of George V in 1935, which mixed chicken with mayonnaise and curry.
Another delicious recipe I have that includes curry, but a less royal dish perhaps, is my Chicken Curry recipe that I am sure will delight any curry lover's taste buds.
This simple, but scrumptious recipe calls for mayonnaise, and there is nothing that tops my homemade blender mayonnaise recipe. You will never want to buy a store-bought brand again.
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Coronation Chicken Recipe
Ingredients
- 3 cup chicken diced or shredded from a pre-cooked chicken (white meat is best)
- 3 tablespoon mayonnaise
- 2 tablespoon crème fraiche or plain yogurt
- 1-2 teaspoon curry powder
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon Zest of 1 lime
- 2 teaspoon Juice of 1 lime
- ½ teaspoon salt
- Ground black pepper
- 1 tablespoon mango chutney
- ½ cup Golden sultanas
- Watercress
Instructions
- Mix everything except the chicken in a bowl. Adjust to taste and adjust quantities for more people.
- Mix the combined ingredients with the shredded or diced chicken.
- Serve with baked potatoes, pasta, quinoa, rice, or other salads.
- You can leave this chilled in the fridge until you are ready to serve.
- Garnish with watercress for a lovely accent of color.
Notes
- Using pre-cooked chicken makes this an extremely quick and easy dish to prepare.
- The chicken can be diced or shredded.
- Make my easy hand blender mayonnaise for a special salad dressing with lots of flavor. If you choose to do it this way, you can add all the ingredients for this recipe while making the mayo, except the raisins.
- After mixing the salad dressing with the chicken, let it sit in the fridge to get well chilled.
Loved it, tweaked it, or not your "cup of tea"... I’d really love to hear how it went for you.