- This creamy chicken salad is so good.
It's made with no mayonnaise whatsoever.
I use yogurt instead of mayo
and it comes out creamy, dreamy and absolutely delicious.
Let's get started.
I'm gonna show you how to make this quick and easy
creamy chicken salad in just a few minutes.
We're gonna start out by making the dressing
for the chicken salad.
Most chicken salads use mayonnaise for making the dressing.
So what I'm gonna do today
is I'm gonna make it with yogurt instead of mayo
and you'll see that once you add the Dijon mustard,
the lemon juice, little bit of herbs and seasoning,
it comes out so good
and you really can't tell the difference
between the mayo and the yogurt.
My favorite yogurt is Stonyfield Organic yogurt.
It's made with billions of probiotics
and what I've learned
is not all probiotics are created equal
so you really want something that is well researched
and actually good for your gut and this is my favorite.
I use it for myself and for my family for snacking,
baking, cooking, all kinds of recipes.
So the recipe will start with half a cup
of Stonyfield Organic yogurt
and we're gonna add one teaspoon of Dijon mustard.
Next, you'll need two tablespoons of fresh lemon juice
and we're just gonna season it with some salt and pepper
and I like to use some kinda fresh herbs in here.
Dill works really well in a chicken salad
but you can also use cilantro, parsley, basil
or any dried herbs as well.
I'm gonna use a whisk to whisk it all together
and it starts out looking kinda chunky and separated
but you'll see just after a little bit of whisking,
it comes together beautifully
and using yogurt is my little hack
in making creamy dressings either just switching out
a little part of the dressing for yogurt
or the whole thing for yogurt.
Most of the time, people can't even tell.
Okay, now we're gonna add two and a half cups
of cubed chicken on top.
You can use any kinda chicken you want.
You can basically use rotisserie chicken
or you could boil some chicken breasts and add it to it.
Any kinda chicken works really well here.
I like to cube it really small
because it works out really well in this chicken salad
but you can also just shred it.
So I'm gonna use my little baby spoon
to mix everything together.
At this point, I like to taste it
to make sure that the salt, pepper and lemon juice situation
is just perfect.
It's just perfect.
At this point, you can add any vegetables
or fruits to this chicken salad.
What's really popular is to add celery and grapes or apple
so I'm gonna do a little combination of those.
We have a nice green apple right here
and I'm also gonna use some green onions and celery.
So let's go ahead and chop up everything.
I'm gonna use half an apple.
You can use a regular apple.
I like the green
'cause all the other vegetables are also green as well
so it works out really well.
Plus, my shirt is green so we went with that.
All right, let's add all those apples on top of the salad.
The apples give it such a beautiful crisp
and nice color and texture so I really love adding apples
but you can definitely keep it more traditional
and add grapes and you can also just keep it all vegetables
and use carrots or peppers instead.
Next, let's do a couple celery stalks.
I like to cut 'em in half
just to keep everything nice and small
and then just finely dice them.
Finally, green onions.
Okay, now we just mix everything together
and the chicken salad is pretty much done
and what I like to do is serve it in a big bowl like this
with some butter lettuce on the side
so you can take a nice piece of lettuce,
scoop some of the chicken salad in there
and it makes for a wonderful appetizer.
You can also just use some sandwich bread
and make good old fashioned chicken salad sandwiches
with the bread.
For now though,
I'm gonna make it into kinda like an appetizer situation
and put it on a nice big plate like this
and I'll show you how I like to serve it.
Take an ice cream scoop just to be fancy.
You can just use regular spoon.
Pop it in like this and then place it on the plate.
I like to use an ice cream scoop
because just an easier way to measure
that everything is about a fourth of a cup
and it makes beautiful little mounds of the chicken salad
right inside the butter lettuce like this.
Look how creamy and gorgeous this looks.
And then any time I'm assembling these,
I always sneak in one of these tiny little ones for myself
to give it a taste.
Let's see how it tastes.
That is so good.
You guys are gonna love this recipe.
It is so perfect for the summertime.
Perfect to make all year round
and I hope you try it and enjoy it.
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