Chicken Salad with Pickled Vegetables
This is one of the best chicken salad recipes you will ever try.
It’s spicy, tangy, and just a bit creamy. I don’t like chicken salads that are drowning in mayo, so this one only has one tablespoon per serving, enough to temper the heat a bit, and add just enough creaminess.
Oh, also, this is beyond easy to make. You just mix some precooked chicken with a handful of other ingredients. I like using rotisserie chicken, because Mikey and I can have half of it for dinner the night before, and then make this chicken salad with the other half.
I use a variety of picked veggies in this, because I think the more, the better! My mix includes Italian giardiniera, hot giardiniera, and my friend Helen’s homemade (amazing) Dilly Beans, but I urge you to throw in whatever you have on hand.
The chicken salad is awesome on a sandwich, obviously. But I like eating it over some lettuce leaves, served with kettle-style chips—the way my mom serves chicken salad.
The original recipe called for “dried salad herbs,” but on top of not having any, I didn’t know what the heck they even were. I found a recipe online and adapted it a bit to make my own, so I’m sharing that recipe with you, as well, just in case you are also totally baffled.
Ingredients
- 1 and 1/2 tsp dried parsley
- 1 tsp dried basil
- 1 tsp dried chives
- 1 tsp dried marjoram
- 1 tsp paprika
- 1 tsp dried onion
- 1 tsp garlic granules
- 1 tsp kosher salt
- 1/4-1/2 tsp freshly cracked pepper
- 2 and 1/2 cups cooked chicken, pulled or diced
- 1 cup pickled vegetables (spicy giardiniera, dilly beans, regular giardiniera, etc.), chopped + 1 tbsp juices
- 1/4 cup mayo
- 1/4 cup chopped fresh basil
- 2 tsp dried salad herbs
- toast, lettuce, chips, to serve
Instructions
- Combine all of the spices in a spice grinder, or high-powered blender and grind until fine.
for the chicken salad:
- In a medium bowl, combine the chicken, pickled veggies, mayo, basil, and salad herbs. Stir until mixed.
Notes
chicken salad adapted from here dried salad herbs adapted from here
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MUST GO TO STORE FOR ROAST CHICKEN!!!
Rachael replied: — February 24th, 2014 @ 11:21 am
Hahah
…no but for real
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