Fancy Chicken Salad with Apples and Grapes
This Fancy Chicken Salad with Apples and Grapes with toasted pecans makes for a sweet, crunchy, and delicious light meal.
Ingredients
- 6 cups diced cooked chicken
- 1 cup toasted pecans, chopped
- 1 cup seedless grapes, halved
- 1 Granny Smith apple, cored, and diced
- 2 stalks celery, chopped
- 1 cup mayonnaise
- 2 tablespoons Dijon mustard
- 1 lemon, juice only
- 1/4 teaspoon celery salt
- 1/4 teaspoon onion powder
Instructions
- In a large bowl, add chicken, fruit, celery, and pecans.
- In a small mixing bowl, combine the mayonnaise, dijon mustard, lemon juice, celery salt, and onion powder; stir well.
- Pour dressing over chicken and fruit mixture, mixing well until combined.
- Refrigerate for at least two hours or until ready to serve. Serve on crackers, celery sticks, croissants, or your favorite bread.
Notes
Tips, Tricks, and FAQs
- You can use leftover chicken, rotisserie chicken, or cook your own chicken at home.
- Use salt and pepper, to taste.
- Replace mayonnaise with avocado mayo, if desired.
- Green grapes can be used, if you prefer.
- The kind of apple used is up to you, Honeycrisp is also delicious to use.
- Add diced onion, or whatever else you like.
- Serve on bread, rolls, as a wrap, or with crackers.
- It can be made a day ahead.
- This recipe does make quite a bit, you can half the recipe easily.