Coronation chicken or Poulet Reine Elizabeth[1] is a combination of cold cooked chicken meat, herbs and spices, and a creamy mayonnaise-based sauce. It can be eaten as a salad or used to fill sandwiches.[2]

Coronation chicken

Place of origin	United Kingdom
Created by	Constance Spry and Rosemary Hume
Main ingredients	Chicken meat, herbs and spices, mayonnaise-based sauce
Media: Coronation chicken

Composition

Normally bright yellow, coronation chicken is usually flavoured with curry powder or paste, although more sophisticated versions of the recipe are made using fresh herbs and spices and additional ingredients such as flaked almonds, raisins, and crème fraîche. The original dish calls for dried apricot and not raisins, and uses curry powder instead of Indian curry paste made from scratch, as fresh Indian curry spices were almost unobtainable in post-war Britain.^{[citation needed]}

History

Constance Spry, an English food writer and flower arranger, and Rosemary Hume, a chef, both principals of the Cordon Bleu Cookery School in London, are credited with the invention of coronation chicken.[3][4] 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.[5]

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.^{[citation needed]} Additionally, for the Queen's Golden Jubilee in 2002, another celebratory dish was devised, also called Jubilee chicken.[3]

See also

• Platinum Pudding
• Chicken salad
• List of chicken dishes

References

External links

Wikibooks Cookbook has a recipe/module on

• Coronation chicken

• Recipe for the original Coronation Chicken by Andrea Soranidis (Author and Food Blogger)
• Blog post on the origins and whether it has links to the Coronation Sussex breed of chicken
• Prize-winning recipe from Telegraph's 2002 contest
• History of Coronation Chicken by James McIntosh (Food Writer)

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