Description
A refreshing chicken salad with grapes, apples, and pecans.
Ingredients
Scale
- 2 pounds boneless skinless chicken breasts (fully cooked, shredded or chopped into bite-sized pieces, approximately 4 cups)
- ½ cup red grapes (halved)
- ½ cup celery (diced)
- 1 ¼ cups green apple (diced, 1 medium apple, optional)
- ⅓ cup green onion (chopped)
- ½ cup pecans (chopped, toasted or raw, see Notes)
- ¾ cup Greek yogurt (up to 1 cup if desired)
- ½ teaspoon salt (more or less to taste)
- ½ teaspoon freshly cracked black pepper (more or less to taste)
Instructions
- Add 2 pounds boneless, skinless chicken breasts, ½ cup halved red grapes, ½ cup diced celery, 1 ¼ cups diced green apple, ⅓ cup chopped green onion, and ½ cup chopped pecans to large mixing bowl.
- Stir ingredients together until well blended. Set aside.
- Add ¾ cup Greek yogurt, ½ teaspoon salt, and ½ teaspoon freshly cracked black pepper to small mixing bowl. Stir ingredients together until fully combined.
- Transfer Greek yogurt mixture to large mixing bowl with chicken and vegetables. Gently fold chicken salad ingredients into yogurt mixture until all ingredients are mixed and well coated.
- Cover mixing bowl with lid or plastic wrap. Place bowl in refrigerator and chill salad at least 1 hour. Immediately prior to serving, remove salad from refrigerator and uncover. Gently stir salad again if needed and serve chilled.
Notes
- Feel free to use toasted pecans for additional flavor.
- This salad can be served on its own or with crackers.
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 0 minutes
- Category: Salads
- Method: Mixing
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 cup
- Calories: 320
- Sugar: 6g
- Sodium: 300mg
- Fat: 15g
- Saturated Fat: 2g
- Unsaturated Fat: 9g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 23g
- Fiber: 3g
- Protein: 30g
- Cholesterol: 70mg