topic Re: Chicken Salad in Kitchen

Chicken Salad

BigOrangeKitty — Thu, 01 Jan 2015 02:40:40 GMT

How do you make your chicken salad? Do you poach or bake the chicken? What herbs/spices do you add? Let me know what's your favorite way.

Re: Chicken Salad

sunshine45 — Thu, 01 Jan 2015 03:21:24 GMT

any way is fine......poached, baked, even lightly sauteed. in a pinch a rotisserie chicken from the store works great.

in mine i like some spring onions, colorful bell peppers (red, yellow, orange), celery, fresh chopped parsley, some mayo (hellmanns or dukes), sea salt/freshly ground pepper, and a few squeezes of fresh lime or lemon juice.

Re: Chicken Salad

HonnyBrown — Thu, 01 Jan 2015 03:35:29 GMT

I smoke chicken breasts on the Cameron, chop it up and make it like tuna salad.

Celery, onions and green bell peppers

Hellmans, mustard, anchovy paste and poultry seasoning

I use mustard to lessen the mayo

Re: Chicken Salad

PERPETUALQ — Thu, 01 Jan 2015 04:14:23 GMT

I bake the chicken I use to make chicken salad. Use boneless, skinless breasts, half as many hard boiled eggs as breasts, celery seed to taste and mayo. Not fancy but good if in a hurry.

Re: Chicken Salad

PERPETUALQ — Thu, 01 Jan 2015 04:14:47 GMT

I bake the chicken I use to make chicken salad. Use boneless, skinless breasts, half as many hard boiled eggs as breasts, celery seed to taste and mayo. Not fancy but good if in a hurry.

Re: Chicken Salad

PERPETUALQ — Thu, 01 Jan 2015 04:15:20 GMT

Sorry duplicate post.

Re: Chicken Salad

nomless — Thu, 01 Jan 2015 04:18:36 GMT

I poach the chicken, then mince it. (I don't like chunky chicken salad). Mayo, sweet pickle relish, green onion, salt, pepper.

Re: Chicken Salad

little boobala — Thu, 01 Jan 2015 04:22:11 GMT

Baked is fine, onions, celery, salt, pepper Hellmans and a little curry powder. Always serve with croissants.

Re: Chicken Salad

05gage25 — Thu, 01 Jan 2015 04:27:08 GMT

I poach the chicken breasts, also. Then chop it up and add finely chopped apple, chopped celery, red grapes cut in half, chopped pecans or walnuts, sometimes even a few chopped dried cherries or craisins (chopped). Mix in regular mayo sweetened slightly with a Stevia packet and serve on croissants.

Re: Chicken Salad

oceantown — Thu, 01 Jan 2015 05:53:42 GMT

I have used this recipe when having friends for a tea party. It has simple ingredients, but it is very tasty. I think it makes a difference to put this filling on good quality bread, and using butter on the bread rather than mayo.

Chicken Salad Filling for Tea Sandwiches

Toast sesame seeds in skillet over medium-low heat for five minutes, shaking pan.

1 medium onion, skin on, sliced in half

6 black peppercorns

1 bay leaf

1 teaspoon dried thyme

3 1/2 pound chicken

1/2 cup sesame seeds, toasted, optional

1. Place onion, peppercorns, bay leaf and thyme in a large pot. Add chicken. Add just enough cold water to cover. Cover and bring to a simmer. Uncover and cook for 1 hour.

2. Drain chicken. (Reserve broth for another use.) Remove skin from chicken and shred meat from bones and chop very fine. Refrigerate, covered, until well chilled.

In small bowl mix:

1/2 cup plus 2 Tablespoons mayonnaise (Best Foods with olive oil)

Cooked, diced chicken

3 green onions, tops and white part, chopped fine

1/8 teaspoon salt

Pepper, to taste

Refrigerate, covered, until ready to use.

1. Butter thin sliced bread and spread with chicken salad filling. Top with bread. Trim crusts and cut in triangles.

2. If desired, butter one edge of bread and press into toasted sesame seeds.

Re: Chicken Salad

OkeyDokey — Thu, 01 Jan 2015 05:57:52 GMT

I love chicken salad with grapes, pecans, and celery. I rarely make it because I meticulously make certain that each and every bit of gristle is removed from the chicken and the chicken is well shredded with forks. My mother makes good chicken salad...until you get gristle. Her eyesight isn't good and a little gristle doesn't bother her. Needless to say...I choose from her other delicious, non-gristle containing eats. LOL!

Re: Chicken Salad

DiAnne — Thu, 01 Jan 2015 07:41:13 GMT

I make chicken salad using Costco rotisserie chicken. I shred the chicken using two forks. Add diced celery, diced scallions and fresh tarragon if I am using for a spread or sandwich. If I am using as a salad I usually add red grapes and toasted pecans to it.

Re: Chicken Salad

BigOrangeKitty — Thu, 01 Jan 2015 15:26:50 GMT

DiAnne, about how much tarragon do you use? I'd like to try that. Oh, and those Costco chickens are DELICIOUS!

Re: Chicken Salad

DiAnne — Fri, 02 Jan 2015 21:56:59 GMT

On 1/1/2015 BigOrangeKitty said:
DiAnne, about how much tarragon do you use? I'd like to try that. Oh, and those Costco chickens are DELICIOUS!

I don't really measure. I usually pull the leaves of a couple of stems and mince. It is very potent so be careful!

PS: I always throw the chicken carcass into the freezer to use for homemade chicken stock.

Re: Chicken Salad

Tique — Fri, 02 Jan 2015 22:10:08 GMT

Does anyone have a recipe for Curried Chicken Salad? I could google but I'd like one that's tried and tested. TIA.

Re: Chicken Salad

wildcat fan — Fri, 02 Jan 2015 22:49:38 GMT

My local grocery sells Napa Chicken Salad in the deli. I like it because it contains pecans and grapes.

Re: Chicken Salad

Nickname1 — Fri, 02 Jan 2015 22:50:11 GMT

I'll poach if I'm making the chicken for salad, but if I have left overs from a chicken I've bake or a rotisserie I'll use that.

Re: Chicken Salad

Campion — Fri, 02 Jan 2015 23:42:03 GMT

I poach the chicken, and I often put chopped fresh tarragon in the salad--which some people really like when I do it that way. If I'm not using tarragon (which is hard to find) I sometimes use curry powder and make a curried chicken salad.

Re: Chicken Salad

DiAnne — Fri, 02 Jan 2015 23:44:02 GMT

On 1/2/2015 Tique said:
Does anyone have a recipe for Curried Chicken Salad? I could google but I'd like one that's tried and tested. TIA.

I make curried chicken salad sometimes but I don't really have a recipe. I use the Costco rotisserie chicken - add chopped celery, sliced green onion. Mix curry powder into mayo and add to the chicken salad. The amount depends on how strong you want it. I also sometimes add currants and don't forget salt and pepper!

Re: Chicken Salad

qvcfreak — Fri, 02 Jan 2015 23:56:55 GMT

I cheat and I buy a Rotisserie chicken, shred it and add all my favs.