How to make chicken salad with mayo and sour cream without

Everybody needs a basic chicken salad recipe to add to their arsenal of foolproof recipes. It’s easy and quick to make homemade chicken salad with a few everyday ingredients. This dish is great for picnics in the warm weather, potlucks or lunches. It’s easy to customize the ingredients of chicken salad according to your tastes, and you can use leftovers. This recipe for Basic Chicken Salad is a great way to make delicious chicken salad. I will also share some tips and ideas.

How to Make Chicken Salad

The recipe takes just 10 minutes from start to finish. You can then serve the chicken salad on lettuce, pita bread, half an avocado or wrap it in a tortilla to make a wrap. It is also delicious in quesadillas or chicken melts.

Chicken Salad Ingredients

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

• Chicken: You will need cooked chicken, shredded or chopped. Chicken salad is an excellent way to use up leftovers of grilled or roast chicken. Chicken salad can be made with canned chicken (drain first) or cooked chicken. You can use white or dark meat or a mixture of both, if you like.
• Mayonnaise Creamy mayonnaise brings together the different ingredients of chicken salad to create a delicious mixture of textures and flavors. You can use regular or low-fat mayonnaise. This chicken salad recipe enhances the mayonnaise with 1/4 teaspoon black pepper and 1/4 tablespoon lemon juice. You may need to add a bit of salt or another flavor enhancer from your spice cabinet before you mix the dressing with the chicken.
• Celery :Fresh celery with a crisp texture adds flavor and crunch. Make sure you chop your celery into uniform, small pieces to make it easier to eat.
• AlmondsThis is the secret ingredient to make this chicken salad recipe unique. The blanched almonds are added to the chicken mixture after they have been pan-toasted.

How to Store Chicken Salad

Keep chicken salad in a refrigerator in an airtight container. If stored properly, the chicken salad will last between three and five days. Store the salad greens separately if you serve chicken salad on top of salad greens to avoid them becoming soggy or wilted.

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup blanched slivered almonds
• 1/2 cup mayonnaise
• 1 tablespoon lemon juice
• 1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
• 2 cups chopped, cooked chicken meat
• 1 stalk celery, chopped

Directions

All ingredients should be gathered.

Place almonds into a frying pan. Toast on medium heat and shake frequently. They can easily burn.

Mix mayonnaise with lemon juice and pepper in a bowl.

Add celery, chicken, and toasted almonds to the salad.

Enjoy!

A Note About A Lighter Version of This Classic Favorite

This recipe has been made hundreds of times and always with good results. We lightened the recipe by making two small changes. Light sour cream and light mayonnaise were substituted for regular mayonnaise.

The changes did not seem to affect the taste, but they changed the amount and type of fats in the recipe. These small changes reduced the Weight Watchers points from 11 to 3 per serving. It is still delicious.

The Best Chicken Salad Ever

One day, I was making Buffalo Chicken Dip. The recipe called for chicken salad that had been pre-made at the deli. The price of the chicken salad was much higher than what I had expected.

It’s not that I don’t like pre-made meals, but I can’t justify paying so much for something made of leftover chicken, pantry staples, and other ingredients.

The recipe for Best Chicken Salad Ever was given to me by a friend, who responded when I asked for a recipe on Facebook. She used leftover rotisserie hen when she made this salad, but I didn’t have leftover chicken so I decided to try making it with Costco canned chicken. It was incredible. It’s so simple and delicious. A new favorite recipe was created.

Start by shredding three cups of cooked, cooled chicken.

If you’re using Costco canned poultry ( 2 12.5 ounce cans), drain it, place in a bowl and shred the chicken with a fork.

Stir in 1/4 cup chopped red onion.

Stir well to combine celery, lemon, sour cream, mayonnaise and salt and pepper.

Keep chilled until ready to serve. It’s as simple as that.

You can make Baked buffalo chicken dip or you can make some fantastic little sandwiches. It can be served with crackers or on a salad. You can even eat it using a fork. You can get it at the grocery store for a fraction of the price. Enjoy!

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How can you improve the taste of bland chicken salad?

It’s a fact that boiled chicken is bland. It takes a combination of ingredients to make chicken salad flavorful and tasty! Celery, green onions, sweet grapes and slivered almonds are used in this recipe for their texture. Lemon juice, fresh dill and cayenne pepper, as well as a dash of cayenne and salt and black pepper, bring out the flavors. The fresh herbs and lemon juice really bring out the flavors in this salad.

How do you shred the chicken?

The amount of chicken and the fineness you desire to shred it will determine how you proceed. You can shred the chicken with two forks or your hands, or you can use a food processor or stand mixer.

How much time should you let chicken salad sit?

Let the chicken-salad sit in the refrigerator for at least two hours before you eat it. The flavors will meld if you let the chicken salad sit in the fridge for at least 2 hours. Even better, let it sit overnight.

Substitutions for Chicken Salad

• Nuts You can substitute the pecans with almonds, cashews or walnuts.
• Fruit: Try diced apples, pears, or dried fruits like raisins or cranberries.
• Onion — If you like a milder onion taste, use Vidalia onions or chives in place of yellow onion.
• Celery — If you do not like celery you can substitute diced bell pepper, or diced cucumber. However, leftovers with cucumber don’t last as long.
• Canned Chicken– You can use canned, but we recommend using fresh, cooked, chicken for the best texture.

How to serve chicken salad

This chicken salad is also a great side dish or main course. It’s great for lunch, because it can easily be turned into a full meal.

• Mixed Greens– Place your favorite greens, such as arugula, into a large serving bowl. Top with the chicken salad and serve.
• Lettuce cups– this is a low-carb lunch option that’s served in lettuce cup.
• Croissant sandwiches – Cut the croissant into half, but do not cut all the way through. Fill it with salad. It tastes just like a sandwich from a bakery.
• We love to fill a pita bread with chicken salad. It’s simple and delicious.

Pro Tip

It’s best to warm a croissant in an air fryer by toasting it at 350@F, for three minutes. The outside should be lightly crisped and the inside warmed. We do this with the store-bought ones and they taste just like they came straight from a bakery.

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Nutrition Facts

Calories779
Total fat 63g
Saturated fat 9g
Cholesterol (126mg)
Sodium 403mg
Total Carbohydrate: 8g
Dietary Fibers 3g
Total Sugars 2g
Protein 44g
Vitamin C 4mg
Calcium 100mg
Iron 3mg
Potassium 572mg