Chicken Salad

This simple, 7-ingredient chicken salad recipe includes chopped celery, apples, and onions. It tastes great it in a chicken salad sandwich, with a side of crackers, or on top of a salad!

Course lunch, Snack

Cuisine American

Prep Time 15

Total Time 15

Servings servings

Calories 314kcal

Author Sam Merritt

Equipment

Mixing bowl

Ingredients

1 lb (453 g) cooked chopped chicken
⅔ cup (85 g) chopped apple see note
⅓ cup (48 g) finely diced yellow onion
1 (53 g) celery stalk chopped
¾ cup (160 g) mayo
⅛ teaspoon table salt plus more to taste
⅛ teaspoon ground black pepper plus more to taste
Bread or croissants for making sandwiches
Lettuce for sandwiches optional

Instructions

Combine chicken, apple, onion, celery, mayo, salt, and pepper in a large mixing bowl and stir until ingredients are well-combined. Taste-test and add additional salt and pepper as needed.
1 lb cooked chopped chicken, ⅔ cup chopped apple, ⅓ cup finely diced yellow onion, 1 celery stalk, ¾ cup mayo, ⅛ teaspoon table salt, ⅛ teaspoon ground black pepper
For best results, cover and chill in the refrigerator for at least 30 minutes before serving.
Serve cold on sliced bread, buns, or croissants (or scoop it with crackers).
Bread or croissants for making sandwiches, Lettuce for sandwiches

Notes

Chicken

I will either buy pre-grilled cubed chicken then chop it finer or cook my own chicken and chop it small. This is also great with leftover chicken or rotisserie chicken meat.
Alternatively you can use 1 lb of canned, drained white meat chicken or follow my instructions for making shredded chicken in the slow cooker.

Apples

For the apples I recommend using Gala or Fuji or a similar firm, sweet-tart apple, however whatever you have on hand will work. I do not peel the apple before using, but you may.

Storing

Store in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 3 days.

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