3-Salad Chef's Salad Plate
- Level: Easy
- Yield: 4 servings
- Total: 30 min
- Active: 30 min
Ingredients
Beef Salad:
1/2 cup sour cream
2 round tablespoons prepared horseradish, Gold's preferred brand
1/2 lemon, juiced
About 2 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce, Lea and Perrins preferred brand
A handful chives, finely chopped
A handful dill, finely chopped
1 1/2 teaspoons (1/2 a palm full) coarse black pepper
About 1 pound deli roast beef, leftover roast, pot roast or steaks
Watercress or arugula, to serve
Deviled Ham:
1 pound deli sliced prosciutto cotto (cooked ham)
2 small ribs celery with leafy tops
1/2 red onion
2 cloves garlic
2 tablespoons thyme
1 tablespoon cayenne pepper sauce, Frank's Red Hot preferred brand, plus more to taste
About 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
About 2 round tablespoons yellow mustard
3 tablespoons good-quality pickle relish, Wickle's preferred brand
Gem romaine or Bibb lettuce, to serve
Chicken "Rillette" Salad:
1 pound cooked rotisserie chicken PLUS all the fat and drippings from its container
2 small ribs celery
1 large shallot
1 large clove garlic, crushed
4 sprigs tarragon
Salt and pepper
1/2 lemon
2 round tablespoons Dijon mustard
Gem romaine or Bibb lettuce
About 2 tablespoons nonpareil (small) capers
Chopped cornichons, for serving
In addition, to serve:
8 slices white sandwich bread, Pepperidge Farm preferred brand
4 store-bought hard-boiled eggs, Eggland's Best in pouch preferred brand
3/4 to 1 pound cheese, 2 rounds of aged goat cheese, Fontina val d'Aosta or Comte, or cheeses of choice
Directions
- Gather your ingredients.
- For the beef salad: In a mixing bowl, combine sour cream, horseradish, lemon juice, Worcestershire sauce, chives, dill and black pepper. Chop the beef and combine with sauce. When you serve, arrange watercress or arugula under and/or around rounded scoops of the salad, about 4 ounces per platter.
- For the deviled ham: Tear ham into coarse pieces. Add to a food processor and finely chop the ham by pulsing it 10 to 12 times. Add to a mixing bowl and return processor bowl to base. Coarsely chopped celery and onion, crush garlic and finely chop thyme and add to ham. Season the ham with cayenne pepper sauce, Worcestershire sauce, mustard and relish then stir salad with rubber spatula. Rinse processor blade and bowl and return to base. To serve, arrange a small bed of lettuce leaves under rounded scoops of deviled ham, about 4 ounces per portion.
- For the chicken salad: Preheat broiler.
- Separate the skin and bones from chicken and place meat in food processor with fat. Pulse the processor to finely chop the chicken and transfer to a mixing bowl. Add processor bowl back to base, coarsely chop the celery, shallot, crushed garlic and tarragon leaves and pulse to finely chop. Add to the chicken and season with salt and pepper. Add lemon juice and Dijon mustard and stir well with rubber spatula. To serve, arrange the chicken salad on a bed of a few leaves of lettuce and top with capers and chopped cornichons.
- To serve: Cut edges of bread, arrange the bread on a baking sheet and lightly toast on both sides under broiler. Cut toasts from corner to corner. Quarter the eggs lengthwise. Cut cheese into portions.
- Arrange platter: ham salad, hard-boiled eggs, beef salad, portion of cheese or cheeses of choice, chicken salad, 4 toast points per person.