Recipe: Smoked Chicken Rice Salad

This is a use-the-leftovers recipe for GWiv's "Low and Slow" chicken (lesson 2). Chicken without smoke won't have the flavor impact.
Even though this is one of the warmer recent Saturdays, I felt like making something autumnal.

Mix the following items together
4 cups cooked rice (brown in my case)
1.5 cups shredded smoked chicken
8 oz fresh mozzarella, cut into 1/4" dice
1 large carrot, shredded on box grater
1 cup roughly-chopped walnuts
12 fresh sage leaves, chiffonade (thin ribbons)
3/4 cup oven-dried (or sun-dried) tomatoes, cut into thin strips
3/4 cup diced red onion

Dressing: whisk together in a small bowl
1 tsp honey
1 tsp mild mustard (I used a creole variety)
1/2 tsp tobasco sauce
1/2 tsp paprika
1/2 tsp freshly ground black pepper
1/4-1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp coriander (not sure why, but it seemed right)
Juice of 1 lime
3 Tbs cider vinegar
Slowly add while whisking:
1/2 C extra virgin olive oil

Mixture should be red-orange and well emulsified. Pour into salad and toss. Taste, adjust for acid (more lime juice or vinegar) and salt. Chill until serving.

[edited 9/9/9 - realized I'd left out the red onion]

JoelF wrote:Smoked Chicken Rice Salad

Joel,

Sounds terrific! I think I just found the first recipe for book two. (With proper attribution of course)

Enjoy,
Gary

G Wiv wrote:

JoelF wrote:Smoked Chicken Rice Salad

Joel,

Sounds terrific! I think I just found the first recipe for book two. (With proper attribution of course)

Enjoy,
Gary

Saddened, this didn't make it into Low and Slow 2.

JoelF wrote:Saddened, this didn't make it into Low and Slow 2.

Quite a bit did not make it into Low & Slow 2, boudreaulicious's slaw, your smoked chicken rice salad and one of my favorites, smoked baloney, which I made today for Dave Hammond at Barn & Company.

Seems there will have to be a L S 3

Dave Hammond coquettishly posing with smoked baloney.

I'm just happy to have been nominated

Enjoying planning show menus around what IS in there.