Name: Chicken Salad Provençale
Yield: 4 servings
Ingredients: several pieces of leafy lettuce such as oak leaf lettuce; 4 cups diced cooked chicken; 1 small ripe avocado (optional); 1 large red pepper; 1 small red onion, sliced; 18 black olives; 1/2 cup olive oil; 3 TB. red-wine vinegar; 1 tsp. Dijon mustard; 1 tsp. fresh thyme leaves or about 1/2 tsp. dried; 1/2 tsp. salt, or salt to taste; 1/8 tsp. freshly ground black pepper

1

Wash and dry the lettuce leaves and arrange them on a platter.

2

Place the chicken in a mound in the center.

3

Peel the avocado (if used) and cut slices from the flesh, placing them at the edge of the chicken.

4

Remove the stem and seeds from the pepper, cut it into strips, and arrange the strips near the avocado and chicken.

5

Place red onion slices around the platter, and put the olives here and there.

6

Combine the remaining ingredients in a bowl and whisk to blend them well.

Chicken Salad Provençale

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