Here is my most favoritist (yup, we’ll call that a word) recipe for chicken salad, I use the full recipe when we entertain a crowd and just halve it when it’s just me, the hubs, and the kidlets eating. It is SO good and SO easy! I get rave reviews whenever it’s on the table, totally true story. You will love it, I promise! And you wanna hear the best part? It’s even better the next day, so leftovers of this dish are always welcome at our house although not always available the next day…boo hoo 🙁
You can customize this recipe with lots of different add-ins too, that is if you like your chicken salad on the wild side. I like to add cranberries to mine but apples, walnuts and pecans are surely welcome to the party. The choice is up to you!
Oh So Good!
Chicken Salad for a Crowd
Prep time:
Total time:
Serves: 10-12
Ingredients
- 4 cups shredded or cubed cooked chicken
- 1 cup light mayonnaise
- 1 cup diced celery
- 2 diced green onions
- 1 1/2 cups dried cranberries
- 1 tsp seasoning salt
- 1 tsp paprika
- ground pepper to taste
Instructions
- Mix together the mayonnaise, paprika, seasoned salt, celery, onions and dried cranberries in a large bowl.
- Add chicken and mix until well incorporated.
- Season with black pepper to taste.
- Chill for at least one hour in your fridge.
- Serve with a pretty sliced up tomato, or on croissants, potato rolls or, my favorite, Hawaiian bread rolls!
OK, so I usually cook my chicken up first, about 1.5-2 pounds of chicken breast usually does the trick.
Dice up your green onion…all parts of it!
And dice up your celery too!
Mix together the green onions, celery, cranberries, mayonnaise, paprika, and seasoning salt in a large bowl.
Add in your chicken breast and chill for a good hour…let those flavors meld!
Then serve it up on some yummy Hawaiian rolls with a spring mix for added color.
If you’re cool like me you can plate it up on your neat-o Liberty of London serving platter 😉
Now you can be the Hostess…with the Mostess!
Enjoy!
thanks for posting this recipe just in time for me! I’m planning out “beach trip” menus and wanted a good chix salad recipe…this one is perfection!
thank you for this recipe! you deserved to be on that list of bloggers! I really enjoy your blog!
Thank you so much! It is so strange you are posting this…my daughter just tried a chicken salad sandwich the other day (actually she ended up eating half of mine at a restaurant) and loved it. Can’t wait to try it, sounds great!
I love cranberries in stuff like this! Makes me hungry:)
I just made chicken salad yesterday! I love chicken salad – I’m going to have to try your recipe!
I also wanted to let you know I nominated you on my blog for the Sunshine Award! you can stop by and pick it up at http://thingamajigetc.blogspot.com/
have a great weekend!
Love your blog! Trying your cookie dough truffles asap!!!!! TFS!
Um yum! I am totally going to make this. I LOVE chicken salad sammys.
So, I really DID make this on our vacation last week. It was a HUGE hit…especially for those of us who don’t prefer a really mayo thick salad. It was great. We put ours in small pita pockets.
I just dropped by to let you know I tried this recipe and we love it at my house. Thanks for sharing and I featured your pic with a link today.
http://www.laniejandco.com/2010/06/you-gotta-try-these-recipes.html
How do you cook your chicken for this recipe? Thanks!
I cook it on the stovetop with a 1/2 cup water, keeping the lid on the pan!
If I am feeding a crowd( party). How many will this make? Thanks
It depends on what size sandwiches you are making but if you are using smaller rolls like I did here it should make about 36 or so.