Coronation Sauce for Poached Chicken Sandwiches
Serves 6·Added 5 May 2026 by Tom Melhuish
Main
Ingredients
| 1 | tablespoon | olive oil |
| 1 | small | onion(chopped) |
| 1 | level teaspoon | curry powder |
| 1/4 | pint | stock (or stock cube and water) |
| 1/2 | lemon | juice |
| 1 | rounded teaspoon | tomato puree |
| 2 | rounded tablespoons | sweet chutney |
| 1/2 | pint | mayonnaise(can substitute with greek yogurt) |
| 6 | chicken breasts |
Method
1.Cover and fry onion in oil for 5 minutes until soft.
2.Add curry powder and cook for a few minutes.
3.Add stock, juice, puree, and chutney, and stir until boiling. Simmer for 5 minutes.
4.Cool and strain into a basin (or blend using a food processor/Magimix).
5.When cool, stir in the mayonnaise (or Greek yogurt).
6.To poach chicken: Put frying pan full of stock/water to boil with 6 chicken breasts. Simmer 10 minutes, turning halfway through. Place lid on if available, take off heat, and let sit in hot water for another 10 minutes. Check that chicken is white all the way through; if not, simmer a little longer.
7.Slice chicken horizontally when cool and marinate in the sauce for 24 hours in the fridge.
Recipe Notes
AI · may be inaccurate
Substitutions
- mayonnaise → greek yogurt (personal preference)
Serving suggestions
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Tips
Author notes that instead of straining through a sieve, they just put the sauce ingredients in a Magimix/food processor.
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