I love chicken salad. I don't make it often. I usually wait to stumble across it on a deli menu and then I am highly disappointed in the overly mayo, celery lacking excuse for a chicken salad being served. Oh yeah. I like mine crunchy with big chunks of chicken and only slightly moist. No offense to the chicken salad my Grandmother used to make in which you couldn't identify the chicken, there was little crunch and it was very moist. I liked that one as well but this is more of a grown up chicken salad. When I asked my husband to taste test the salad his comment was "it is good but it could use a little more mayo". Yep, if my Grandmother were still alive she would likely have agreed. And I also think she would like this man I chose to spend the rest of my life with. He definitely would have liked her chicken salad.
Crunchy Chicken Salad
-Makes 4-5 wraps or sandwiches
2 chicken breasts, poached*
2 stalks of celery, chopped
1 cup of walnuts, chopped
2 big spoonfuls of mayo
2 big spoonfuls of Greek yogurt
1 tbsp of champagne vinegar (or white vinegar)
salt and pepper to taste
*Instead of the normal way I cook chicken for recipes I tried poaching and am in love with the results. It's so easy to do and the chicken is not dried out like it is when I put it in the oven. Also, you are left with about 4 cups of chicken broth that you can use in another recipe. It's a win/win situation for me. Give it a try! I used these instructions on
Cookography to learn
how to poach a chicken breast.
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