This delish chicken salad recipe offers the perfect balance of ingredients and the cranberry on the chicken is a delightful combination of sweet and crunch. Make the tasty filling from scratch with tender chicken, dehydrated cranberries, romaine lettuce, toasted pecans, pears, cooked wild rice, and a simple vinaigrette that will make nonstop making it on your weekly meals. I was never a chicken salad person until started eating chicken in different ways.
chicken salad recipe made healthier and lighter to make the perfect homemade chicken salad. The perfect cold lunch for meal prep as well!
Ingredients Notes:
Roasted Chicken: You’ll need some cooked, diced or shredded chicken breast. You can use your leftover to keep it simple use rotisserie chicken or make your own. I use my on-the go recipes 20 min Air Fryer!
Dehydrated Cranberries: It gives the salads the sweet touch and add color, you can use raisins or grapes.
Romaine Lettuce: Lettuce adds freshness and crispness, but you can use other greens like I use spinach, arugula or any mix salad.
Toasted Pecans: Toast your pecans to bring out more of the nutty flavor
Pears: Pears add that fresh crunch.
Wild Rice: Wild rice adds a rich source of dietary fiber to keep our cholesterol
Feta Cheese: High in protein and promote gut health
Olive Oil: Olive is a good source of monounsaturated fat, which is a healthy type of fat that can help lower cholesterol levels and reduce the risk of heart disease. It also can reduce inflammation
Wine Vinegar: Wine Vinegar Low blood sugar, blood pressure and cholesterol since is derived from red wine. It also brightens the flavor of food and adds balance to a rich dish.
Honey: Honey protects the quality of salad dressings for up to nine months while sweetening them naturally
Dijon Mustard: I use yellow mustard but any kind you like. Adds spice to the dressing
Salt: Salt enhances the other flavors. Salt replacement can be use like Sea Salt . Adjust to taste, but don’t leave out.
Below are the ingredients:
Chicken Salad
Ingredients
4 cups roasted chicken breast (Rotisserie)
½ cup dehydrated cranberries
2 cups of romaine lettuce, chopped into julienne strips
1 cup toasted pecans
2 pears chopped into cubes
2 cups cooked wild rice
½ cup vegan feta cheese
For the vinaigrette:
½ cup olive oil
¼ cup red wine vinegar
2 teaspoons of honey
1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
¼ teaspoon pink salt
Pinch of ground black pepper
Directions
- Add all the vinaigrette ingredients to your blender and mix until perfectly combined.
- For the salad: Place the lettuce on the bottom, wild rice, chicken, pears, cranberries, pecans in four bowls.
- Add the vinaigrette on top.
Tips
This salad is perfect to make ahead of time since the flavors are maintained and reinforced.
This versatile chicken salad is easy to make and loaded with flavor, and is sure to become a family favorite! Make sure to share your recipe and leave a comment!
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Happy Salad!
Xo!