Description
A refreshing chicken salad with grapes, apples, and yogurt dressing.
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
- Toasted pecans add a nice crunch but raw can also be used.
- Prep Time: 20 minutes
- Category: Salad
- Method: Mixing
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 cup
- Calories: 350
- Sugar: 5g
- Sodium: 300mg
- Fat: 18g
- Saturated Fat: 2g
- Unsaturated Fat: 14g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 25g
- Fiber: 4g
- Protein: 25g
- Cholesterol: 85mg