Any healthy simple Chicken Salad recipes???

I just cut up all the fresh vegies I have, toss them together and add the chicken hot or cold to the top with 1 oz of shredded cheese. It is really good, healthy and easy to make.

Diced chicken - 2 cups
Celery - 6 stalks diced
Onion - Red, diced
Tarragon - 2 Tbsp.
Mayo - Light/Fat Free, 2 Tbsp
Mustard - Deli (or any kind you like), 4 Tbsp
Red Grapes - 5, halved
Walnuts - 5 halves crushed up
Salt/Pepper to taste

It's kind of dry, so I usually make wraps with leftover lettuce.

chop clelery, apples, carrots and dice your chicken. mix some fresh garlic and plain greek yogurt. drizzle with a balsamic reduction.. super super yummy

I made this last month. I love chicken salad, but it's best (and evilest) loaded with Hellmann's mayonnaise. I've found lots of lighter versions out there that sub fat-free mayo, but I can't stand that stuff.

My weekly produce delivery brought some awesome red seedless grapes and I couldn't resist the call of chicken salad any longer, so tried to lighten it a bit with half mayo and half greek yogurt. It was great wrapped in a Flat-out multi-grain wrap with a pile of greens!

3oz serving = 116 calories/6g fat/5g carbs/10g protein.

I made this a shared food in the MFP database called "Homemade Nikkie's Chicken Salad. The sodium number does not include added salt, garlic salt or celery salt since it's quite subjective, depending on how much and what people choose to use. If you're concerned about sodium, I recommend garlic powder, and celery salt.

Makes 8 servings, 3oz each.



Served with a side of Skinnytaste onion rings.:)

Here's the recipe:

Lighter Chicken Salad
- 8 oz cooked chicken breast, shredded or finely chopped (see note below)
- 3 stalks celery (about 3oz), thinly sliced
- 2 green onions (dark and light green parts only), thinly sliced
- about 30 red or black seedless grapes (6 oz by weight)
- 4 Tbsp (2 ounces) Hellmann's mayonnaise (use the good stuff!)
- 4 Tbsp (2 ounces) plain fat free greek yogurt (I used Oikos organic)
Garlic salt, Celery salt and pepper to taste

Mix everything together and enjoy!

Note - so many recipes call for cooked chicken. I'll sometimes put a few chicken breasts in the crock pot and add water to cover, the cook on low about 8 hours. The chicken will shred beautifully and be nice and juicy when it's done. I'll even make far more than I need and bag/freeze the extra cooked chicken for later use.

My husband LOVES this recipe from Cooking Light

Chicken and Couscous Salad
http://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/chicken-couscous-salad-10000000630133/

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