Fall Chicken Salad
Make a large dish of this fall flavor inspired chicken salad or a single serving to change up your menu for a great lunch offering.
Equipment
- 1 cutting board
- 1 knife
- 1 set measuring spoons/cups
Ingredients
- 2 C chicken, cut into bite sized pieces OR drained canned chicken
- 1 small apple, diced
- 1/2 C mayonnaise more or less to your liking- I'm still a fan of Miracle Whip with this recipe! You choose your favorite.
- 1 large egg--boiled, peeled, and diced
- 1/2 C walnuts or pecans, coarse chop
- 1 stalk celery, diced
- 1 T red onion, finely diced, optional
- 1/4 t curry, optional more or less to your liking
- 1 T sweet pickle relish, optional if you use sliced grapes, raisins, or dried cranberries, you may not need the sweetness of the relish.
- 1/2 C diced grapes, dried cranberries or raisins, optional original Waldorf salads have sliced grapes...feel free to add them.
Instructions
- Add diced chicken to mixing bowl. If using canned chicken, drain before adding to bowl.
- Core and dice apple into bite sized pieces.
- Dice the celery.
- Coarsely chop favorite nuts.
- Boil the egg, peel and dice.
- In a separate bowl, mix together the mayonnaise, and other ingredients of your choosing, such as, curry to make the dressing. NOTE: You can add sweet pickle relish to the dressing, instead of grapes, raisins or dried cranberries, to add sweetness.
- Add dressing mixture, apple, celery, egg and nuts to the chicken and stir until well coated. NOTE: Feel free to add other optional items to suit your taste: red onion, dried cranberries, raisins, or sliced grapes.
- Garnish with your favorite herbs. Place on lettuce leaves or salad greens or a tomato. Serve with more apple slices, crackers or add to slices of your favorite bread.
- Best eaten same day of preparation.
Notes
Fall flavors of apples, nuts and your favorite seasonings make a great fall chicken salad.
- My favorite nut to use is pecans, but walnuts are great, too.
- Many will prefer a mayonnaise as part of the dressing...for me? I love the sweetness of Miracle Whip for this one. But, I have made it with mayonnaise, too.
- The crunch of the celery with the apples is a perfect blend. You decide which type of apple gives you your favorite flavor.
- If adding sliced grapes, dried cranberries or raisins, you may choose to omit the sweet pickle relish. Any will add a bit of sweetness and different flavors. I added all of the ingredients for this recipe except grapes, dried cranberries or raisins in my pictured recipe.
- NOTE: Feel free to add grapes to make it more like a true "Waldorf" salad.
- Curry is always a love or hate ingredient. Curry added also adds warmth and depth to the salad. It gives a great fall flavor with the apple to this recipe.
- Diced red onion is an optional ingredient that just added another layer of flavor.