The family counts this chicken salad recipe as their best loved dish among their collection. I prefer using leftover roast chicken or baked chicken breasts which receive either a basil or rosemary topping.

Best chicken salad requires a spot in every home as one of the trustworthy go-to recipes. Relying on standard home kitchen ingredients the creation of this chicken salad stands as an efficient dish fit for summertime picnics alongside potluck affairs and daily meals and evening suppers. The culinary advantage of this dish lies in its ability to utilize leftovers while allowing personal ingredient customization to match your food preferences. I will guide you through making delicious chicken salad with the popular Basic Chicken Salad recipe while providing you with numerous essential recommendations.

How Will You Make Best Chicken Salad?

A quick 10-minute preparation with six plain ingredients makes up this easy-to-make best chicken salad recipe. This easy dish allows you to use different presentation methods such as topping salad greens, putting it into pita or avocado halves or creating tortilla wraps or quesadillas or chicken melts.

Chicken Salad Ingredients

These are the simple ingredients you’ll need to make this basic chicken salad recipe:

Chicken: The cooked chicken must, of course, be chopped or shredded. If you’ve got leftover roast chicken, grilled chicken, or ‘‘rotisserie’’ chicken then chicken salad is the go to way to use it all up. If you don’t have canned chicken you can make chicken salad (drain it first) or cook chicken for chicken salad. If you’re like me, use white or dark meat— or even a mix of the two.

Mayonnaise: Once we add all of the separate ingredients to cream mayonnaise, everything comes together — flavors and textures — in a creamy concoction. You can use regular or reduced fat mayonnaise in your choice. For brightness and a little bit of heat, the mayonnaise in this chicken salad recipe gets a table spoon of lemon juice added in and a ¼ teaspoon of ground black pepper. Try tasting the dressing before you mix it with the chicken, and you might just need some extra salt or another one of your spice collection’s flavor boosters.

Celery: Crisp celery adds both flavor and crunch and is fresh. Make sure to chop the celery up into smaller uniform pieces, so you can bring it to your mouth.

Almonds: This chicken salad recipe gets its own unique twist by adding this one ingredient. To bring out the nutty flavor, quickly pan toast (not brown) blanched slivered almonds available at any grocery store and add them to the chicken salad mixture.

Best Chicken Salad

Servings

2

servings

Prep time

5

minutes

Cooking time

20

minutes

Ingredients

• ½ cup blanched slivered almonds

• ½ cup mayonnaise

• 1 tablespoon lemon juice

• ¼ teaspoon ground black pepper

• 2 cups chopped, cooked chicken meat

• 1 stalk celery, chopped

Directions

• Gather all ingredients.
  
• Place almonds in a frying pan. Shake frequently, toast over medium high heat. Be careful, they are very easy to burn.
• Mix together mayonnaise, lemon juice, and pepper in a medium bowl.
  
• Toss with chicken, toasted almonds, and celery.
  
• Enjoy

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