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Apple, chicory & pecan salad

A lovely healthy salad made from bitter chicory, chicken, crunchy sweet Pink Lady apples and nutty pecans, all drizzled with a creamy sesame seed dressing.

• Preparation: 15 mins
• Serves: 4

What you need:

• 3 chicory bulbs, trimmed, quartered and leaves separated
• 300g cooked chicken meat, shredded
• 2 celery sticks, finely sliced
• 1 Pink Lady apple, cored and finely sliced
• 1 shallot, finely sliced
• 50g pecans, toasted and chopped
• juice 1/2 small lemon
• 3 tbsp olive oil
• 1 tbsp tahini
• a small handful of fresh flat leaf parsley leaves
• 50g parmesan shavings

What you do:

1. Put the chicory onto a large platter. Scatter the chicken, celery, Pink Lady apple, shallots and pecans over the top.
2. In a small bowl whisk together the lemon juice, olive oil and tahini until combined. Drizzle all over the salad and scatter over the parsley and parmesan.

Cook's tip:

If you can't find tahini, then you could use Dijon mustard instead.

To make a lower fat dressing, mix together 3 tbsp low fat plain yoghurt with the tahini instead of the oil.

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Pink Lady apples

Pink Lady apples have a distinctive crisp texture and fizzy flavour – similar to champagne. It takes 200 days of tender care and, once ripe, each apple undergoes a rigorous quality control process to ensure that the high standard is kept – only the best apples can become a Pink Lady apple. Pink Lady apples are perfect culinary apples as they retain their texture and unique flavour and little, if any, additional sugar needs to be added.