Recipe: Yummy Chicken and Apple Salad

Chicken and Apple Salad. Delicious Recipes & Helpful Hints Free From Kraft® Kitchens. Leftover grilled chicken breasts are ideal for making this chicken salad in a yogurt based dressing with apples, celery, red onion, and grapes. This low-calorie Chicken and Apple Salad puts a zesty spin on an old childhood favorite.

Chicken and Apple Salad This Crunchy Chicken Salad with Apples is a sweet tart take on classic chicken salad with sweet apples and tart dried cranberries. Apple Chicken Salad Now that my six children are grown, I make lots of small-portion meals. This tasty salad is one of my favorite recipes because it's colorful, a little different and it contains healthy ingredients.—Anne Stevens, Lake Charles, Louisiana This tasty chicken salad is filled with flavor. You can have Chicken and Apple Salad using 11 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Chicken and Apple Salad

1. Prepare 2 lbs of skin-on, bone-in chicken breasts.
2. You need of salt and pepper.
3. It's 1/3 c of and 1 T vegetable oil.
4. You need 2 T of sherry vinegar or red wine vinegar.
5. It's 1 T of and 1 tsp Dijon mustard.
6. You need 1 tsp of honey.
7. It's 2 of Gala apples, thinly sliced.
8. It's 1/2 c of chopped walnuts.
9. It's 1 of small head escarole, torn in pieces.
10. You need 2 heads of Belgian endive, trimmed and sliced.
11. You need 1 c of shredded cheddar cheese.

The crunchy apples, cranberries, and nuts make it extra-special. This is an excellent way to use leftover chicken—or make the salad with leftover turkey. A fully cooked rotisserie chicken or convenient fully cooked chicken breast strips may be used as well. Made this last week sometime for supper.

Chicken and Apple Salad step by step

1. Preheat oven to 375°F. Season chicken with 1 tsp salt and pepper to taste..
2. In large oven-proof skillet, heat 1 T oil. Add chicken skin-side down and cook until golden. Transfer skillet to oven and bake until thickest part of meat thermometer reads 165°, about 25 min. Transfer to cutting board and let rest 5 min..
3. In large bowl, whisk vinegar, mustard and honey. Gradually add oil..
4. Remove chicken from bone and slice. In large bowl, toss lettuce, apples, walnuts and dressing. Top with chicken and cheese..

Nice for a summer meal, will definitely make again! Also- very quick to make supper- that scores a point with me. Chicken Salad with Apples, the BEST chicken salad with loads of fresh apple, walnuts or pecans, cheese, and a maple dijon dressing. This salad is easy to put together and so mouthwatering! The bright clean flavor of Granny Smith apples stands out among tender shreds of chicken, and a creamy seasoned sauce.