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coronation chicken

coronation chicken noun: cold pre-cooked chicken meat in a creamy mayonnaise-based sauce with herbs and spices, used as a sandwich filling or in salads.

Noun

coronation chicken (uncountable)

  1. Cold pre-cooked chicken meat in a creamy mayonnaise-based sauce with herbs and spices, used as a sandwich filling or in salads.
    • Everybody loves coronation chicken if it is made well, but it has become a bit of a low-rent classic, alongside prawn cocktail! Sadly, there are numerous bad versions of the dish—pale shadows of the real thing invented 50 years ago by Constance Spry and Rosemary Hume of the Cordon Bleu School in...2016, Nick Nairn, Nick Nairn's Top 100 Chicken Recipes, Random House, →ISBN

Origin of coronation chicken

Created for the coronation banquet of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953.

Questions about coronation chicken

What does coronation chicken mean?
Coronation chicken means cold pre-cooked chicken meat in a creamy mayonnaise-based sauce with herbs and spices, used as a sandwich filling or in salads.
What part of speech is coronation chicken?
Coronation chicken is a noun.

Words near coronation chicken in the dictionary

  1. coronatime
  2. coronatimes
  3. coronatine
  4. coronating
  5. coronation
  6. coronation chicken
  7. Coronation Gulf
  8. Coronation Island
  9. coronation quiche
  10. coronation quiches
  11. coronation sauce

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