This is traditional Brazilian chicken salad, topped with shoestring potato sticks. I’ve never been to Brazil, or eaten an authentic version of this dish, so I’m fairly certain that this probably some sort of abomination to lovers of this salad.

However, this is tasty, easy and crucially, can be made with leftovers and random fridge ingredients which is the kind of recipe we need right now.

The base of the salad is cooked chicken in a creamy sauce and the topping is essentially fries, which is the kind of salad we can all get enthusiastic about. The classic recipe seems to include potato sticks (like crisps) as a topping, but I just cut some potatoes into matchsticks and then cooked them in the airfryer for a similar texture (or you could used crushed crisps). The idea is that the potatoes should be crispy.

This is a very simple recipe and can be embellished in loads of different ways by using what you have in your fridge/cupboards. Sultanas, celery, grated carrot, sweetcorn and spring onions are all things that you could add to this salad that would be delicious.

Serves 4.

Ingredients

• 500g cooked chicken, shredded.
• 2 apples, cut into matchsticks or julienned
• 1 lime, juiced
• 3 tbsp. mayonnaise
• 1 tbsp. soured cream

Instructions

1. Make the base of the salad by combining the chicken, apples, lime juice, mayo and soured cream.
2. Cut the potatoes into matchsticks (or julienne), before spraying with frylight or rubbing over 1 tbsp oil and seasonsing well.
3. Put in an airfryer or oven baking at 200c until crispy.
4. Scatter the fries over the salad and serve.