coronation chicken

English

Etymology

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

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.
   • 2016, Nick Nairn, Nick Nairn's Top 100 Chicken Recipes‎^[1], Random House, →ISBN:

     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 London to mark the coronation celebrations of 1953.

Related terms

• coronation sauce