Sweet and Savory Chicken Salad

For me, the best part of a roasted chicken is the leftover breast meat…

…because I make chicken salad with it. And I love me some chicken salad!

Now, I make my chicken salad with canola oil based mayonnaise, which makes it somewhat less fattening. Then, I plop it on some toasted whole grain bread and top it leafy lettuce. YUM!

As for my recipe, honestly I eyeball it so I’m not really sure about the quantities listed below, but you get the idea. Plus, it also depends on what ingredients I have on hand. Sometimes I’ll add dried cranberries and chopped apples. Anything goes! It’s all good.

Chicken Salad

Ingredients

½ cup chopped chicken breast

4 Tbsp mayonnaise

2 Tbsp minced celery (about 2 stalks)

2 Tbsp minced red onion

¼ cup sliced raw almonds

¼ cup of red seedless grapes cut into halves

Directions

Add all the ingredients in a small bowl. Mix until well combined. Add salt and pepper, if needed.

Now link up and see what If I Could Escape and Gone Bananas are serving for this week’s Friday Food Fight.

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About the author

Denise

From start to finish, Denise is Run DMT, a Tampa Bay homeschooling mom on the run trying to maintain an easy pace through it all between races and raising three beautiful, brilliant adultish kids (ages 23, 19, 14). In 2007, I discovered a passion for running and in February 2015, I completed my tenth marathon. I continue to train for a variety of races and even host annual 5K. In 2023, I became a certified group fitness instructor and teach P.E. in my homeschool co-op.

12 comments

Heather @girlichef says: 19 August, 2011 at 9:17 am

Chicken Salad is a favorite of mine, too…so versatile! And always tasty…except the one time when I ordered it from a bagel shop, drove away, took a big bite and discovered- Miracle Whip. Barf. Ruined my day…

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Corey @ Learning Patience says: 19 August, 2011 at 10:26 am

Next time you’ll have to try using low fat sour cream instead of mayo! Here’s my recipe!
http://thehinzadventures.blogspot.com/2011/08/im-on-twitter-yikes-and-wiaw.html

xoxo from Trinidad

kimert79 says: 19 August, 2011 at 10:40 am

My husband will love this! I’m sure I will too. Thanks for sharing.

Erin @ EKat's Kitchen says: 19 August, 2011 at 12:42 pm

This looks delicious! For once I have ALL of these ingredients! I like the idea that Corey mentioned of sour cream too. 🙂
Thanks so much for linking up to Friday Potluck.

If I Could Escape . . . says: 19 August, 2011 at 12:53 pm

It was delicious! ;P

My Inner Chick says: 20 August, 2011 at 10:37 am

ohhhhhhhhhh, sliced raw almonds. I will put that in my chicken salad next time I make it.
Excuse me, I’m comin’ over for the other half of that delish sandwich! 🙂

monicastangledweb says: 20 August, 2011 at 1:00 pm

This sounds so delicious! I love the combination of fruit, nuts and roasted chicken, and this recipe seems quite easy to make. Thanks for the idea!

tinajo says: 20 August, 2011 at 1:08 pm

That sure looks yummy – thanks for the recipe! 🙂

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