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Chicken Salad Recipe

Do you have a chicken salad recipe that calls for mayo?

I looked at allrecipes, and all they show is asian chicken stuff or chicken with fruits.

For best results, use only the best parts of the chicken breast. Make sure you remove all traces of skin, fat, veins and gristle.

Dice the meat into pieces no bigger than about half an inch and most of it not a lot smaller.

Slice up some celery, chop up some yellow (mild) onion, a shoot of green onion, half a sweet apple and a handful of chopped nuts. (walnuts and pecans work real well. Maybe halve some red or green seedless grapes.

Mix all this with enough mayonaise to coat everything, but not drown it all in a goey mess. I like to add some yellow or brown mustard and, either a dash of lime or lemon juice. These ingredients will add tartness to the mayo coating, so, if you don't want that, leave them out.

My wife likes to add salt. I like to add some black pepper.

But, when this is spread onto your favorite bread, it makes for a yummy sandwich with marvelous gems of texture and sweetness in almost every bite. If not on a sandwich, it also looks very good on a bed of lettuce or other salad greens.

If you shred and finely chop the chicken instead of dicing it makes a decent party dip. In this case, you can substitute some sour cream for half the mayo. For this, I also like to add a dash of garlic powder. I guess it would be a good idea to leave out the big chunky grapes for this.

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