World's best Chicken Salad with grapes and pickles
This homemade chicken salad is easy to make, and tastes amazing! It puts a fun twist on the classic chicken salad, with grapes, sweet pickles, and dill.
Ingredients
- 2 1/2 cups chopped or shredded chicken(roughly measured) You can use chicken breasts, chicken thighs, or legs. Rotisserie chicken also works great as does pretty much any leftover chicken.
- 1-1 1/2 cups red grapes washed and halved
- 3 green onions sliced
- 2 celery stalks washed and sliced
- 1/4 cup bread and butter pickles diced
- 2 tbsp dill weed
- 5 tsp dried parsley
- 1/2 cup mayonnaise homemade or from the grocery store
- 1/2 cup sour cream
- 2 tbsp lemon juice roughly one lemon
- sea salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
Instructions
- If you are using raw chicken, fry it on low heat in butter with salt and pepper until cooked through. Allow the chicken to cool completely or even sit in the fridge overnight before preparing your salad
- Place the shredded or chopped chicken it in a large bowl.
- Add everything but the mayo and sour cream, and mix well, making sure that everything has been coated in the seasoning.
- Add the mayo and sour cream, and mix well.
- The chicken salad can be eaten imminently, OR covered and chilled in the fridge for 1-2 hours before serving.
- Enjoy!
Notes
Chicken salad will last for 3-5 days in an airtight container in the fridge.
This is a great recipe for meal prep, you can easily make the chicken salad at the start of the week, then either make sandwiches or leave it as is, for quick and easy lunches throughout the week!
Be sure to read the post above for serving ideas, fun add-ins and substitutions!
Plain Greek yogurt can be used in place of sour cream.
Fresh dill can be used in place of dill weed.
Sweet relish can be used in a pinch in place of the bread and butter pickles. You can also use dill pickles, you'll still have an amazing chicken salad, but the flavor won't be quite the same.
Miracle whip can be used in place of mayo, though it will make the salad slightly sweeter.
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