Recipe: Delicious Chicken Salad

Chicken Salad. Use Our Step-By-Step Guide To Cook Simple and Delectable Meal Plans. Chicken salad often finds its way to my summer menus, served on greens or a croissant. I think this one is just a little special.

Water chestnuts and a teriyaki dressing give this main dish its Asian flare. —Carolee Ewell, Santaquin, Utah An easy Chicken Salad recipe from Food Network Kitchen starts with poaching your chicken breasts in an herb-infused broth to keep them extra moist. With chicken salad, the simplest recipes are the best. Don't use FF mayo, use light if you absolutely must. You can cook Chicken Salad using 8 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Chicken Salad

1. Prepare 1 of rotisserie chicken cubed (no skin).
2. You need 1 lb of medium shells.
3. Prepare 1/2 lb of colby jack cheese, shredded by hand.
4. You need 4 cups of red seedless grapes (crunchy).
5. It's 4 stalks of celery, chopped.
6. Prepare 1 cup of green onions, chopped.
7. It's 1 cup of mayo (until creamy).
8. Prepare To taste of salt and pepper.

Hellman's or Duke's mayo yields the best results. I love Miracle Whip but not in chicken salad. Other rotisserie chicken recipes will also help you use any leftover chicken. But, considering how delicious this easy chicken salad recipe is, leftovers are unlikely.

Chicken Salad instructions

1. Cook pasta according to the package. Strain pasta..
2. While pasta is cooking, in a large bowl, add cubed chicken, shredded cheese, grapes, celery and green onion..
3. Combine all ingredients besides mayo. Set in refrigerator to cool for 30 minutes.
4. Add in mayo once pasta has cooled. Mix together. Add in salt and pepper for taste..

These tasty sides are the perfect complement to easy homemade chicken salad: That Good Salad; Heirloom. Put the parsley, thyme, onion, carrot, celery, and chicken breasts in a medium saucepan. Cover with the broth, and bring just to a boil. Lower the heat to very low and cover. Chicken salad is so popular that even vegetarians get a craving for it at times.

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