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Chicken salad with sugar snap pesto

Celebrity chef Simon Gault shares his light chicken salad recipe with perfect pesto. Photography by Sarah Tuck.
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Ingredients

Chicken salad
Sugar snap pesto

Method

1.Season the chicken thighs with Italian seasoning. Heat a frying pan then add the vegetable oil and chicken thighs. Cook for 5 minutes on each side or until the chicken has cooked right through. Once cooked, remove from the heat, slice and set aside.
2.Add all the pesto ingredients to a blender and blend until smooth. Pour into a glass jug to serve.
3.In a large bowl add baby lettuce leaves, sliced chicken, blanched sugar snaps, sundried tomatoes and pine nuts. Pour some of the sugar snap pesto over the salad, toss and serve.

This recipe makes 3 cups of pesto; refrigerate leftover pesto for a future use.

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