Chicken tikka salad

Not traditional AT ALL, but so delicious and crunchy I couldn’t not share. This is the ultimate lunch and a sublime way to use up leftover chicken tikka. Not so much a cooking job, as a tossing job – and then immediately eating with undignified grunting sounds job. Feeds 2.

  • Leftover chicken tikka (equivalent of 4 thighs)
  • 1 gem lettuce, cut into bitesized pieces
  • 10 cm piece cucumber, cut into little chunks
  • 8 radishes, sliced
  • 1 avocado, peeled and cut into bitesized pieces
  • ½ mango, peeled and cut into small bitesized pieces (could replace this with apple if you like)
  • Juice of ½ lemon
  • 3 tbsp rapeseed oil
  • Flaky salt
  • Pinch of chaat masala spice mix (optional)
  • 6 tbsp plain Greek yoghurt
  • Couple of handfuls bombay mix
  1. Mix together the lettuce, cucumber, radish, avocado and mango and dress with the lemon juice, oil and a pinch of salt
  2. Toss together gently, then top with (in this order) big dots of yoghurt, a little sprinkle of chaat masala, the chicken pieces and then a generous cascade of bombay mix (which should be added just before serving)

Warning: may incur office-based jealousy and lunch thievery. I take zero responsibility for this.

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