How To Make Classic Chicken Salad
A simple chicken salad dish perfect for lunch or dinner. Just add chicken, diced vegetables, and mayo-based salad dressing to create a flavorful salad.
Serves:
Ingredients
For the Salad:
- 1lbchicken breasts,raw boneless, skinless, cut into 2½-inch chunks or 2 to 3 cups cooked chicken meat
- 2celery stalks,chopped
- ½red bell pepper,seeded and chopped
- 6green olives,pitted and minced
- ¼cupred onion,chopped
- 1whole apple,cored and chopped
- ⅓iceberg lettuce,sliced and chopped
For the Dressing:
- 5tbspmayonnaise
- 1tbspplum preserves,or any sweet berry preserve or a lesser amount of honey
- 2tsplemon juice,fresh squeezed
- salt and pepper,to taste
Instructions
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Bring a pot with 2 quarts of well-salted water to a boil. Add the chicken breast and return the water to a simmer.
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Then turn off the heat, and cover the pot. Let the chicken sit for 15 minutes or more while you prepare everything else.
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Prepare the chicken salad dressing in a large bowl. Mix together the mayonnaise, preserves, and lemon juice. Taste for the proper balance of sweetness and acidity.
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Mix in the chopped celery, bell pepper, olives, red onion, and apple.
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Remove the chicken from the poaching water and dice it. Mix it in with the dressing and vegetables.
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When ready to serve, fold in the sliced and chopped iceberg lettuce.
Nutrition
- Calories: 383.94kcal
- Fat: 25.27g
- Saturated Fat: 5.22g
- Trans Fat: 0.12g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 8.30g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 10.71g
- Carbohydrates: 14.31g
- Fiber: 2.83g
- Sugar: 9.42g
- Protein: 24.71g
- Cholesterol: 79.61mg
- Sodium: 646.47mg
- Calcium: 41.60mg
- Potassium: 477.13mg
- Iron: 1.33mg
- Vitamin A: 68.31µg
- Vitamin C: 25.10mg
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