Serious Eats: Recipes
Dinner Tonight: Warm Chicken Salad with Arugula, Capers, and Pine Nuts
"I polished off this dish like it was steak."
This may sound like an awfully simple salad, but something about it is so much more. I found the recipe on Orangette after searching around for ways to use arugula and roast chicken leftovers. The recipe looked like a perfect use of both, but I didn't think about it much beyond that. I hoped it would be tasty--I didn't realize it would be approaching revelatory.
I polished off this dish like it was a steak. There's something strange and wonderful about the way bitter arugula wilts underneath warm chicken, and the tart dressing ties it all together. I substituted tomatoes for bell peppers, added some capers, and discarded the croutons. Anything you add will probably work out as long as you keep the chicken and arugula. I honestly couldn't put my fork down.