A Healthier Chicken Salad
A Healthier Chicken Salad

Hello everybody, it is Louise, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, a healthier chicken salad. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

These crisp and cool chicken salads have a refreshing combination of ingredients to satisfy your taste buds while giving you the nutrition you need. Turn leftover chicken into a zesty part of the simple salad. Combining curry powder and fat-free yogurt upgrades a boring salad to a spicy, tangy bowl of. A protein-packed, low-fat alternative to normal chicken salad uses fat-free Greek yogurt and low-fat cottage cheese instead of mayonnaise.

A Healthier Chicken Salad is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They’re nice and they look wonderful. A Healthier Chicken Salad is something that I have loved my whole life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have a healthier chicken salad using 12 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make A Healthier Chicken Salad:
  1. Make ready chicken salad
  2. Prepare 2 cup cooked chicken, boneless, skinless,
  3. Prepare 1/2 cup plain greek yogurt
  4. Take 1 medium avocado
  5. Take 1/2 tsp lime juice
  6. Make ready 1/2 cup red onion, finely chopped
  7. Prepare 1/3 cup celery, finely chopped
  8. Get 1/3 cup fresh parsley, finely chopped
  9. Make ready 1/3 tsp salt
  10. Take 1/4 tsp white pepper
  11. Prepare 1/2 tsp paprika
  12. Make ready 1/4 tsp sriracha, optional

This sweet, crunchy chicken salad tastes like a mix between slaw and pad Thai. Instead of mayonnaise, the sauce is made of Greek yogurt, peanut butter, ginger, lime juice, and soy sauce. This healthy chicken salad recipe is fast to make (even faster if you use leftover chicken!) and is a great lunch, dinner, or snack. Pack in container for a fast on-the-go meal.

Steps to make A Healthier Chicken Salad:
  1. In a food processor or blender, pulse the onion and celery until you have a fine chop. About four or five pulses. Set aside in a bowl.
  2. In the same processor, add in the avocado, lime juice, greek yogurt, salt, pepper, paprika and sriracha if using. Pulse until smooth.
  3. Cooked chicken can be shredded or very finely chopped. I prefer to chop it finely by hand. Canned all white meat chicken, drained, can be used for an even quicker meal.
  4. In a large bowl, mix everything together. I chop parsley and add it in at the last minute.
  5. You can serve it at room temperature or chilled for 1 hour before serving.
  6. Use this in a sandwich or over a bed of lettuce. Or dip some crackers in it!
  7. Recipe by taylor68too.

This healthy chicken salad recipe is fast to make (even faster if you use leftover chicken!) and is a great lunch, dinner, or snack. Pack in container for a fast on-the-go meal. The best way I've found to bring this on the go is to put some at the bottom of a mason jar, add some lettuce or spinach and cap. This Healthy Chicken Salad is the best! It's creamy and flavorful – WITH NO MAYO.

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