coronation chicken

noun

Cold pre-cooked chicken meat in a creamy mayonnaise-based sauce with herbs and spices, used as a sandwich filling or in salads.

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Meanings

nouncoronation chicken (uncountable)
  1. uncountableCold pre-cooked chicken meat in a creamy mayonnaise-based sauce with herbs and spices, used as a sandwich filling or in salads.
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    Everybody loves coronation chicken if it is made well, but it has become a bit of a low-rent classic, alongside prawn cocktail! Sadly, there are numerous bad versions of the dish—pale shadows of the real thing invented 50 years ago by Constance Spry and Rosemary Hume of the Cordon Bleu School in London to mark the coronation celebrations of 1953.

    2016, Nick Nairn, Nick Nairn's Top 100 Chicken Recipes, Random House, →ISBN

Origin

Created for the coronation banquet of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953.

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