Chicken Salad Recipes

Chicken Salad Recipes:

Chicken Pasta Salad

Accidental Grilled Chicken Salad

Tarragon Chicken Salad

Barbeque Chicken Pasta Salad

Poppy Seed Chicken Pasta Salad

Chicken Salad with Apples, Grapes, and Walnuts

Grilled Chicken Taco Salad

Sesame Chicken Pasta Salad

Chipotle Chicken Salad

Carole's Sesame Chicken Salad

Deb's Cranchick Salad

Julie's Chicken Salad

Spring Strawberry Salad with Chicken

Greek Chicken Salad

Chicken Berry Salad

Southwestern Caesar Salad

Chicken Salad with Couscous

Chicken Pasta Salad with Cashews and Dried Cranberries

Chicken Curry Salad

Spicy Rice Noodle Salad

Etc

Chicken salad is any salad with chicken as a main ingredient. Other common ingredients may include mayonnaise, hard-boiled egg, celery, onion, pepper, pickles (or pickle relish) and a variety of mustards.

In the United States, "chicken salad" refers to either any salad with chicken, or a specific mixed salad consisting primarily of chopped chicken meat and a binder, such as mayonnaise or salad dressing. Like tuna salad and egg salad, it may be served on top of lettuce, tomato, avocado, or some combination of these. It may also be used for sandwiches. Typically it is made with leftover or canned chicken. It may also refer to a garden salad with fried, grilled, or roasted chicken (usually cut up or diced) on top.

In Europe and Asia the salad may be complemented by any number of dressings, or no dressing at all, and the salad constituents can vary from traditional leaves and vegetables, to pastas, couscous, noodles or rice.

The American form of chicken salad was first served by Town Meats in Wakefield, Rhode Island, in 1863. The original owner, Liam Gray, mixed his leftover chicken with mayonnaise, tarragon, and grapes. This became such a popular item that the meat market was converted to a delicatessen.