Basic Chicken Salad Recipe
Begin with this Easy Chicken Salad
and then Customize it to your taste.
 This Basic Chicken Salad Recipe is easy to customize to your tastes. It can be put together in many combinations. It's a perfect dish for the beginner cook. The only cooking required is the chicken and really you don’t even have to do that. Use a rotisserie chicken! In some stores you can buy them for a cheaper price than you can cook at home.
You may like this recipe for easy chicken salad just the way it is but you will probably want to add your favorite ingredients to make it a special dish for you and your family. I don't have room to list all of the wonderful additions you can put into chicken salad but here are some popular suggestions:
Add some grapes that have been sliced in half, Raisins, Dried Cranberries, Toasted Pecans, Pineapple Pieces, Mandarin Oranges, Roasted Peanuts, Walnuts, Chopped Green Onion... O.k. I am sure you get the picture.
One day I made the mistake of asking the kids what ingredients they wanted in theirs. The oldest one wanted M&Ms, the youngest wanted gummi worms." Nice try!" I said. We all laughed about that.
So don’t be afraid to experiment and make an original chicken salad that you can call your own.
We are showing this recipe with using just one chicken whole chicken breast. You can use more chicken and adjust the other ingredients for more people. Also, we haven't listed an amount to use for the mayonnaise. Start off with a couple of spoonfuls and stir it all in, then decide how creamy you want it and add more as you like.
Basic Chicken Salad
Ingredients:
1 large cooked boneless, skinless chicken breast half cut into chunks
1/2 celery stalk thinly sliced
Mayonnaise enough to make slightly creamy
Salt and Pepper to taste
Preparation:
Mix all ingredients in a bowl and serve.
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