I made chicken salad for the first time ever last week and it came out really good. I had some chicken breast and thigh meat in the freezer that I wanted to use up (left over from one of my batches of chicken soup-I boil a whole chicken but don't use nearly all of the meat so I freeze it for later use). I just winged it by adding ingredients that I have a had and liked in chicken salad previously. I chopped one apple, a couple stalks of celery and a handful of walnuts.
As for the dressing, I wasn't sure what would work best and my husband HATES mayonnaise so I didn't want to use that for the base. I looked on Pinterest for some ideas and ended up mixing 2 tablespoons of dijon mustard with a container (about 1/2 cup) of plain greek yogurt. I added a little pepper and mixed all of the ingredients together.
The yogurt/mustard concoction sounded awful to me but I went w/ it. The chicken salad was amazing! Husband was very happy with the result and we ate the entire batch in about 2 days. I used it to make wraps w/ my fav, Lavash bread from TJ' and some fresh lettuce from our garden!
The chicken salad adventure made me happy bc I made it with things I already had on hand; I didn't have to buy anything extra! I was able to take a mish-mosh of ingredients from my kitchen and come up with a delicious and healthy lunch alternative that fed 3 of us lunch for 2 days in a row. If I only I could come up with more meals this way!
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