Healthy Chicken Salad
Recipe type: Main
Serves: 5
 
Ingredients
  • 1 lb. Boneless Skinless Chicken Breasts
  • ¼ c. Mayonnaise, regular
  • 1 tbsp. Honey Mustard
  • ¼ tsp. Honey
  • 1 Celery Stalk
  • 1 Red Onion Ring Slice, thin slice and then diced
  • 12 Green or Red Grapes (or both), large, and quartered
  • 1 Fresh Lemon (2 squeezes of lemon juice)
  • ¼ c. Dried Cranberries (optional)
  • ⅛ tsp. Sea Salt
  • Pepper to taste
Instructions
  1. Place chicken breasts in a large pot or Dutch Oven. Add enough water to completely cover the chicken in the pot.
  2. Bring water to a boil, then lower heat to let chicken simmer for 35-40 minutes, half covered. Add more water, if needed, to keep the chicken breasts immersed while they cook.
  3. If the chicken easily shreds when you poke it with a fork, then it is done cooking. If not, let cook for another 5-10 minutes.
  4. Remove the chicken from the pot and set aside to let cool.
  5. Once the chicken is cool enough to handle, shred using a fork. The chicken should come apart easily. Let cool for an additional 10 minutes, or until the chicken is no longer very hot.
  6. While the shredded chicken breasts are cooling, wash the celery and grapes well. Cut the celery stalk in half vertically. Then take each half and slice thinly horizontally. You do not want the celery pieces to be to large, so you can cut each slice in half again if needed. Using a sharp knife, quarter each grape so that you have 4 pieces from each grape. If your grapes are not large, you can cut them in half. Chop the red onion in half and then cut another slice. Take the sliced ring and dice.
  7. Place the shredded chicken in a large bowl and mix in the mayo. Once the chicken is well covered in mayonnaise, mix in the honey mustard, honey, salt and two squeezes from a fresh lemon.
  8. Gently fold in the cut grapes, celery, diced red onion dried cranberries (optional), and pepper. Add more lemon juice if needed.
  9. Finally, you can add and mix in a very small amount of water to the mixture, ½ tbsp. at a time, to soften/moisten the chicken salad if needed.
  10. Serve on a plate and Enjoy!
Nutrition Information
Serving size: 1 Calories: 200.8 Fat: 9.1 g Saturated fat: 1.5 g Carbohydrates: 8.7 g Sugar: 6.3 g Sodium: 186.4 mg Fiber: .6 g Protein: 21.2 g
Recipe by LeanMeanKitchen at https://leanmeankitchen.com/healthy-chicken-salad/