Chicken and Walnut Sandwich Spread

 Keep the kids happy and put some variety into their school lunches. Use this as a spread for their sandwiches. Keeps for a week in the refrigerator if kept in a sealed container.

Just put all the ingredients together in a food processor and blend until they are smooth.

1 cup (about 250 ml) of chopped cooked chicken pieces
1/3 cup (about 100 ml) of coarsely chopped walnut kernels (don't buy kernels from a supermarket, open fresh in-shell walnuts!)# 
1 tablespoon* chopped onion
1 tablespoon of chopped parsley
3 tablespoons of mayonnaise
¼ teaspoon mixed herbs (a generous “pinch”)
1 teaspoon lemon juice (about 5 ml)

* (One tablespoon is either 15 or 20 ml depending on whether you use the English or Australian “tablespoon”, but then who ever measures this sort of thing exactly?)

# (A distressingly high proportion of walnut kernels sold in mass retail outlets have a strong unpleasant taste. This indicates that they are in fact rancid and well past their use-by date. )

Recipe from Diabetes Australia

Why Australian Walnuts are better:

  Free from Pesticides

  Free from chemical treatments

  100%  sold in the year of harvest

  They taste better

Australian Walnut Industry Association: Working to benefit both industry and consumers

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