Dad's Apple Chicken Salad. Chicken Salad with Apples, the BEST chicken salad with loads of fresh apple, walnuts or pecans, cheese, and a maple dijon dressing. 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 Leftover grilled chicken breasts are ideal for making this chicken salad in a yogurt based dressing with apples, celery, red onion, and grapes.
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. In a medium bowl, gently stir together, chicken, apple, celery and raisins. You can cook Dad's Apple Chicken Salad using 10 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Dad's Apple Chicken Salad
- It's 2 cup of Chopped pink lady apples.
- You need 2 cup of Grapes chopped any color.
- It's 1/2 cup of Raisins.
- You need 1/4 cup of Celery chopped.
- You need 1/2 cup of Pecans.
- You need 1/4 cup of Walnuts.
- Prepare 1 tbsp of Pepper.
- You need 1 tbsp of Sea salt.
- It's 1/2 of Mayo.
- Prepare 3 cup of Shredded rotisserie chicken.
In a small bowl, whisk together, dressing and brown sugar, pour over chicken mixture. Dad's Creamy Cucumber Salad Dad's Creamy Cucumber Salad. This was my Dad's recipe and one of our family's all-time summer favorites. The bright clean flavor of Granny Smith apples stands out among tender shreds of chicken, and a creamy seasoned sauce.
Dad's Apple Chicken Salad step by step
- Chop apples and grapes and set in saltwater for 5 min.
- Add all ingredients in large bowl and mix with your hands until well blended.
- Refrigerate for a few hours until chilled.
- Enjoy.
- It's great on toast or Hawaiian sweet rolls.
There are things in life we need more of: kindness, generosity, and salads that don't include lettuce. This salad should not be frozen. You might also like Curry Chicken Salad. Once early fall is upon us, flavors turn to apple. I get so excited - apple is one of my favorite things to bake with, but apples aren't just for baking anymore!