This Jewish New Year, Add Some Schmaltz To Your Chicken Salad
A few tablespoons of fat can turn the holiday staple into a quietly decadent dish.
Chicken salad that benefits from a generous dose of schmaltz.
Photographer: Lauren Volo. Excerpted from the book The Gefilte Manifesto by Jeffrey Yoskowitz & Liz Alpern. Copyright ©2016 by Gefilte Manifesto LLC.
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Chicken salad is one of the harder-working dishes out there, but it doesn’t receive much fanfare. Adjacent meals such as roast chicken and chicken noodle soup have passionate advocates who claim the best versions of their dishes. You rarely hear people shout out the “ultimate” chicken salad.