After six long, lovely weeks of holiday, school started again today. It’s been a great summer. Not in terms of weather, it has to be said but in every other respect it’s been really, really great. The two things I’m going to miss most about having oodles of free time are 1) being able to read lots and lots and 2) spending silly amounts of time preparing our evening meals.
Like most folks, our working-week-night meals have to be quick and easy to prepare. The following meal (idea stolen from The Storehouse) is what we often have on a Monday or Tuesday night using the leftovers from Sunday’s chicken. The Coronation Chicken is not the traditional recipe but a speedy alternative. The lime pickle is optional but I think it really lifts the whole meal.
Baked Potato with Coronation Chicken & Lime Pickle
(serves 2)
2 baking potatoes
Leftover chicken (about a leg and a half is enough)
2 tblspn mayonnaise
2 tblspn yoghurt
1 tspn curry powder
1 tblspn mango chutney
Salt and pepper
Coriander (optional)
Lime pickle (Patak’s do a nice jar)
Salad
- Preheat the oven to 200 oC.
- Mix together the mayo, yogurt, curry powder and mango chutney. Season carefully and stir in the chicken. Leave to marinate while you cook the potatoes.
- Prick the potatoes, wet and rub with salt. Bake in a 200 oC for an hour until the skin is crisp and the insides are soft.
- Serve the coronation with the baked potatoes, lime pickle and a salad of your choice.
A Wee Bit of Cooking 
Nice idea, I’m always looking for ways to finish off Sunday’s chicken. I’m eating low fat at the moment but I think I could manage to use low fat versions, helped by the stronger flavours of curry and mango… yum!
Lovely pics by the way 🙂
What a unique dish. Super cool. So glad I stopped by here. When you have the time, do drop by my space, I just made a vegetarian ‘steak’ and would love to hear what you think 🙂
Great way to use up chicken. Mine usually ends up in a nasi or a sandwich. Enjoy getting back to reality.
Looks delicious, and not too time consuming. The chicken would also make a very good sandwich!
wendy that looks fab-going to bookmark it. I have to say, my week day dinners are even ‘easier’ than that! Summer is coming to the end for me too-a couple more weeks, but still…i have that start of term belly already!
Great idea looks so delicious, love the first image.
Ah , I knew I should have kept that last bit of roast chicken for something ! Alas , it’s just filled a couple of rolls , instead .
Never mind , next time !
Having just returned from Finland, with the problem of not having enough Finnish Rye bread, I stumbled upon your blog of August 2010 searching for recipes. I’m curious did you ever have any luck? I love baking bread and make poulla all the time….now it’s time to master Finnish Rye. How did you experiment go?
I’m delighted to have come across your blog. I’m going to try the chicken later in the week. Thanks!
Stephen – I tried and tried and tried. Made some decent breads but nothing that tasted like the ruisleippa I crave!
I have 5 loaves left in the freezer. Guess I’ll have to fly back to Finland.
I’m going to try my hand at it and see what happens. Thanks for the inspiration.
That’s a great recipe that I think will taste good for Sunday brunch too.
Made this for lunch on Friday, I didnt have the lime pickle or the coriander but still it was delicious!
Hi Wendy – I just made this for our dinner and it was really, really good (esp with the lime pickle). It’s very creamy so I might even try it with 3 tbsp yogurt to one mayo next time.
So nice to have a baked potato too – I forget how tasty they are as it hardly ever occurs to me to make one