Kitchen

[BigOrangeKitty]

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.

[sunshine45]

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.

[HonnyBrown]

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

[PERPETUALQ]

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.

[PERPETUALQ]

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.

[PERPETUALQ]

Sorry duplicate post.

[nomless]

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

[little boobala]

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

[05gage25]

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.

[oceantown]

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.