Beautifully fruity sangria made with Driscoll’s Berries and RIOS de Chile wine paired with boats of endive leaves from California Endive Farms filled with strawberry chicken salad. Enjoy the freshness of summer with these perfect summer recipes.
To begin, trim and slice a half pound of strawberries.
Slice 2 peaches.
Place those, along with a cup each of red raspberries and blackberries in a 2 quart pitcher.
Now what wine to use?
I went with RIOS de Chile 2011 Cabernet Sauvignon.
Pour the entire bottle in the pitcher.
Add in a cup of honey. Stir it all together. Refrigerate 12-24 hours.
Now for the chicken salad. Coarsely chop a half cup of pecans. Toast them in a dry skillet over medium heat until fragrant and lightly golden, about 5-8 minutes. Remove from heat.
Dice 2 stalks of celery.
In a bowl, combine 1 1/4 cup of mayonnaise, a half teaspoon of salt and a teaspoon of freshly ground black pepper.
Add in the pecans and celery.
Add in 3 cups of diced or shredded cooked chicken. You can use a rotisserie chicken from the market, or I just grilled a couple chicken breasts brushed with olive oil. Add this to the bowl along with 2 tablespoons of honey.
Stir these together.
Dice a cup of strawberries.
Fold the beautiful bits into the chicken salad. Spoon the salad into crisp endive leaves.
To serve the sangria, fill a glass 1/3 of the way with the wine and fruit mixture.
Pour in an equal part of seltzer water, ginger ale, or lemon-lime soda – whatever your preference. I used seltzer water.
Enjoy!
Thank you to Driscoll’s Berries, Rios de Chile and California Endive Farms for providing me fantastic ingredients to work with today!
Berry Sangria
Ingredients
- ½ lb strawberries
- 2 peaches
- 1 c blackberries
- 1 c red raspberries
- 750 ML bottle Cabernet Sauvignon
- 1 c honey
- seltzer water, ginger ale or lemon-lime soda
Instructions
- To begin, trim and slice the strawberries.
- Slice the peaches. Place those, along with the red raspberries and blackberries in a 2 quart pitcher.
- Pour the wine in the pitcher.
- Add in a cup of honey. Stir it all together.
- Refrigerate 12-24 hours.
- To serve the sangria, combine equal parts of the wine and fruit mixture and seltzer water, ginger ale, or lemon-lime soda – whatever your preference. I used seltzer water.
Nutrition
If nutritional values are provided for this recipe, they are an estimate and will vary depending on the brands of ingredients you use. The values do not include optional ingredients or when ingredients are added to taste or for serving. If nutritional values are very important to you, I suggest using your favorite nutritional calculating tool with the brands you use.
Strawberry Chicken Salad in Endive Boats
Ingredients
- ½ c coarsely chopped pecans
- 2 stalks celery
- 1¼ c mayonnaise
- ½ tsp salt
- 1 tsp freshly ground black pepper
- 3 cups cooked chicken, diced or shredded
- 2 Tb honey
- 1 c diced strawberries
- endive leaves for serving
Instructions
- Coarsely chop the pecans. Toast them in a dry skillet over medium heat until fragrant and lightly golden, about 5-8 minutes.
- Remove from heat. Dice the celery.
- In a bowl, combine the mayonnaise, salt and black pepper.
- Add in the pecans and celery.
- Add in the cooked chicken. (You can use a rotisserie chicken from the market, or I just grilled a couple chicken breasts brushed with olive oil.)
- Add this to the bowl along with the honey. Stir these together.
- Dice the strawberries. Fold the beautiful bits into the chicken salad. Spoon the salad into crisp endive leaves.
- Enjoy!
Nutrition
If nutritional values are provided for this recipe, they are an estimate and will vary depending on the brands of ingredients you use. The values do not include optional ingredients or when ingredients are added to taste or for serving. If nutritional values are very important to you, I suggest using your favorite nutritional calculating tool with the brands you use.
Wine, Endives and an allowance for berries were provided for the purpose of this post. No other compensation was provided. All opinions are my own.
This looks perfect for summer!! Really love the sangria idea too :-)
Yum! We LOVE chicken salad and can’t wait to try this recipe. For some reason this summer I cannot get enough of the stuff. Moved here to within a half mile of the Niagara Falls, we got up today to some really cool weather. Lived here for seven years now…came up from SC and this year we have been freezing. Our coldest summer yet and the winter was unthinkable! Thinking of you down in warm country and trying not to get jealous! smile
Joyce, just know that while I am down here in warm country, it is *ME* who is jealous of you!!! We moved here last summer from Alaska, and I would much rather have the jeans & flannel summers up there than the melting summers down here. But this is where we are going to be settling down. Doing my best to adapt :)