Chicken Salad Sandwich

This easy chicken salad recipe is the perfect thing to do with last nights roast chicken and makes a dynamite lunch that's great to to take to work, school, or play. Throw in the usual ingredients, like celery red onion and mayo, kick it up a notch with grapes, walnuts and fresh dill, and then blow the roof off with curry powder and spicy brown porter mustard. Now that's a recipe for chicken salad!

Delicious, easy, no fail 10 minute chicken salad and chicken salad sandwiches.

Step 1 Ingredients

• last nights roast chicken (I'm using a whole one, if it's really leftover chicken, you may just have certain pieces)
• 1/3 cup celery
• 1/3 cup grapes (optional, including grapes makes it a "Napa" style chicken salad)
• 2 tsp fresh dill
• 1/3 cup apple
• 1/3 cup red onion
• 1/4 cup currants
• 1/4 cup walnuts
• 3 tbsp mayo
• 1 tsp mustard (optional)
• 1 tsp apple cider vinegar (optional)
• 1/2 tsp curry powder (optional)
• salt to taste
• pepper to taste
• sandwich bread of your choice
• sandwich fixings: lettuce, tomato, pickles, cheese, sprouts

Comments

[gemmaflower]

looks so very delicious!

[totos]

some pictures

[zoneykid]

Looks delicious.

[totos]

It IS delicious!

[Yerboogieman]

Chicken Salad! Yes!

[jdtwelve12]

Nice Instructable. I've never been a fan of chicken salad, but this actually made my mouth water. It looks delicious, and a big part of that owes to your photography. Nicely done.

[mollymillions]

Looks tasty! Not that it matters much (I'm sure both are delicious), but the nuts in the picture are pecans, not walnuts.

[totos]

its very tasty! Thanks!

[totos]

if you roast the chicken a little bit after tearing it apart, it will become REALLY yummy

[jessyratfink]

I've always wanted to like chicken salad. And this one looks especially yummy! It has all ingredients I like... except the mayo. Maybe I should try substituting something else and see how that works. :D

[noahw]

Seems to me that you could easily make tasty chicken salad by substituting a healthy dose of olive oil for the mayo. It won't bind quite as well, but if you let it sit over night it will probably come together quite nicely.

[jessyratfink]

That's a really good idea. I was thinking yogurt, but was afraid it might be too tangy. I think I'm going to try the olive oil. I'll report back with how it works out! :D

[krowii]

Actually, I've made a mediterranean-esque chicken salad sandwich before with plain yogurt and hummus (and chicken, goat/feta cheese, red onion, pine nuts, cucumber, tomato, red bell pepper, oregano, etc etc) inside of a pita. More like a chicken salad gyro than a sandwich. ps - Noahw, this recipe looks delicious! I especially like the combination of fruits you chose.

[lemonie]

Yeah this does look good. What's your preference for bread and type of chicken? (And what mustard is that?) L

[noahw]

It's a mustard made by Sierra Nevada - the beer brewery. They have three varieties I believe, all which contain beer as an ingredient. My favorite is the Porter and Spicy Brown, which is what's pictured above.

[lemonie]

Mmm, probably can't buy that stuff where I live... L

[fwjs28]

yummm...looks really good...