The Queen's Golden Jubilee Chicken Sandwiches

With our recent Coronation Chicken fever, I tried to create the Queen's Golden Jubilee Chicken sandwiches. I adapted a recipe called itself "the original recipe" that I found online although I reduced the amount of each ingredient to make a smaller batch. Fresh ginger and lime juice were the key flavors. The result was ok, but kinda plain. Also unfortunately I had to use chicken tenders instead of chicken breasts because of the online grocery substitution. I didn't like the texture of cooked and marinated chicken tenders that was somehow mushy. Overall, we prefer our curry-flavored coronation chicken. 

It is said that the original recipe was created by Lionel Mann, one of the Queen’s head chefs. The dish was served at the Queen’s Jubilee concert held behind Buckingham Palace on 3rd June 2002, along with a chilled pasta salad (penne with roasted red pepper, lightly cooked thin green beans, lightly cooked snowpeas, spring onion and french dressing). Those dishes, a smoked salmon wrap for the starter, strawberries and cream for the dessert, a half bottle of Lanson champagne, Walkers shortbread and a plastic fluted champagne glass, and Duchy Original's wheat and oat biscuits were packed in an insulated "hamper" bag and each of over 10,000 guests as well as all the performers and workers received one for free. 

If I served the chicken salad with the pasta salad, even if I created the whole hamper, the chicken salad might be appreciated a bit more. By the way, the chicken salad recipe was released in public in May 2002 so that people could make it by themselves to celebrate the Queen's Golden Jubilee with the dish. What a lovely thought!