Chicken Salad Popovers

Three posts in two weeks?  This must be a new record for me on this blog.

So I read the Tea Shop Mysteries by Laura Childs and sometimes the things that Haley serves for their tea times sound so good!  In the latest book, Scones and Bones, the first tea menu hit me right off the bat.  Haley said they were serving chicken salad in popovers and I was like, what?  That's genius!  Why didn't I ever think of that?  There may be a recipe in the book, but I didn't see it and so I made up my own.

First, I made our favorite chicken salad recipe, which I have already given you on this site here.
Then I made a really simple popover recipe I found online awhile ago and adapted it a smidge.

Easy Blender Popovers

4 tbs. melted butter (divided)

3 eggs

1 cup milk

1/2 tsp. salt

1 cup flour

Use 2 tbs. of melted butter to grease the bottom and sides of a muffin pan.  I use a stoneware muffin pan.  Preheat oven to 400 degrees.

Put remaining 2 tbs of butter, milk, eggs and salt in blender and mix.  Add flour and blend for 10-15 seconds, just until the flour is incorporated.  Keep a slim spatula near by in case any of the flour sticks to the sides.  Do not over blend or your popovers won't pop much. Then pour batter into muffin pan until each section is 1/3 to 1/2 full.  This should make 12 popovers.

Bake in 400 degree oven for 35-40 minutes.  DO NOT CHECK POPOVERS FOR AT LEAST 30 MINUTES!  They need time to rise and this may cause them to fall.  Once the popovers are brown and popped, removed them from the oven and poke a hole in the top of each one to let the steam out (I use a sharp knife.

Once they are slightly cool, fill the hollow insides with chicken salad and serve.  Yum!

Here is a close-up.  And they turned out really, really good!  The inside of the popover is full of chicken salad.  This may be a new tea favorite!

 
For a tea recommendation, I never discussed it here, but there was a bagged tea advertised on one of the tea sites where I get my Yorkshire Gold and the site said it was a new favorite in the tea spots in London, so I ordered a box.  If a tea is good, we don't mind it being a bagged tea, especially when we just want one cup.  It was actually pretty good.  Not quite as good as the Yorkshire Gold, but good!  It's called The London Cuppa - a blend of Kenya and Assam.  Two of my favorite black teas!

 I hope you give these Chicken Salad Popovers a try!  They really are delicious!