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4.23 from 9 votes

Strawberry Chicken Salad Tea Sandwiches

Prep Time25 minutes
Cook Time20 minutes
Total Time45 minutes
Course: Main Dish, Tea Time
Cuisine: British
Servings: 12 sandwiches
Calories: 201kcal

Ingredients

Chicken Salad

  • 12 slices white sandwich bread
  • 2 ½ cups chicken breast meat about 3 breasts depending on size
  • 1 cup strawberries plus 3 more large berries for garnish
  • ½ cup toasted pecans
  • cup celery
  • ¼ cup green onion
  • 1 11 oz can mandarin pieces drained

Poppy Seed Dressing

  • ½ cup light mayonnaise
  • 1 tablespoon champagne vinegar substitute white wine vinegar if necessary
  • 2 tsps poppy seeds
  • 2 tsps sugar
  • ¼ teaspoon salt
  • tsp black pepper

Instructions

  • Put all dressing ingredients into a blender and blend til smooth. Refrigerate until ready to use to allow flavours to meld.
  • Poach chicken breasts in sauce pan over medium heat in water that reaches half way up the chicken breasts. About 10 minutes per side. Check for doneness.
  • While chicken is cooking, preheat oven to 375 degrees. Lay pecans out in a single layer on an oven proof pan. Toast about 13 minutes. Remove when browned and you can smell the nuts. Allow nuts to cool.
  • While chicken is cooking rough chop the strawberries, celery and green onions and mandarins.
  • When cool roughly chop chicken.
  • Put chicken and other salad ingredients (except bread) in your food processor and pulse a few times until there are no big chunks of meat or fruit or vegetables. Be careful not to over process into a paste.
  • Mix chicken salad and dressing. Chicken salad mixture can be made a day ahead and refrigerated.
  • When ready to serve, cut crusts off the bread slices. Make sure your bread is square.
  • Spread chicken salad mixture evenly over one half of the bread slices. It will be quite thick. Top with a plain piece of bread. Cut diagonally in half.
  • Thinly slice the 3 strawberries reserved for garnish into 4 slices each. Top each sandwich with a slice of strawberry just before plating.

Nutrition

Calories: 201kcal | Carbohydrates: 20g | Protein: 11g | Fat: 8g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 3g | Monounsaturated Fat: 3g | Cholesterol: 27mg | Sodium: 343mg | Potassium: 178mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 7g