Rotisserie Chicken Salad With Greens and Herbs

By Sam Sifton

Rotisserie Chicken Salad With Greens and Herbs
David Malosh for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Simon Andrews. Prop Stylist: Paige Hicks.
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This is a no-recipe recipe, a recipe without an ingredients list or steps. It invites you to improvise in the kitchen.

Pick up a heat-lamp roast chicken at the market on the way home — it’s O.K.! — and tear it apart to feed four, or half of it for two, shredding the meat with your fingers. Mix the chicken with a few handfuls of baby arugula, a large handful of sliced scallions and a lot of chopped cilantro. Cut an avocado or two into the mix if you have them on hand. Then make a dressing out of lime juice — one juicy squeezed lime will do — a pressed garlic clove and a few glugs of olive oil, seasoned with salt and pepper. Drizzle that over the top and serve. Dinner in 15 minutes, tops.

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Jean

This is similar to Nigella Lawson’s Roast Chicken Salad (w/ Spinach) found on this website. She includes a recipe for lime & olive oil dressing with salt which is delicious.

-Brian

As a single man, sometimes its hard to adjust recipes like this to meet my needs. What I like to do with a store-bought rotisserie chicken is as follows: 1. You bring the bird home, and, depending on how long it's been since you've left the store, you let it sit for 5-10 minutes to cool, just a bit. 2. Then, and this is the most important step, you eat the entire thing in one sitting with your bare hands like a wild animal, discarding the bones as you go. Perfect bachelor meal.

Marilyn Mears

A favorite easy, quick "recipe", with endless variations. I add walnuts or almonds for protein and crunch. Tasty and filling.

Bougeotte

Improvised a Julia Childish vinaigrette, which was nice; next time I will move more into a miso-sesame-lime thing and lean on the scallions. For this round, though, dried thyme, thin-sliced radishes, and roasted cubed sweet potato were nice additions (03.03.26). Also thinking about coriander, chili, turmeric, mustard, curry powder.

Jane Burke

NYT has recipes so locked down, I cant even send them to use in my recipes. Sometimes I cant even see ingredients it’s so complex.

Annie

I love the DeTox Chicken Soup Recipe...I know I'll like these too!

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