Deb's Chicken Salad recipe

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Ingredients

2 cups diced cooked chicken
4 cooked bacon strips, crumbled
½ cucumber, peeled and diced
½ cup thinly sliced celery
¼ cup chopped Granny Smith apple
¾ cup olive oil mayonnaise
¼ cup reduced-fat crumbled blue cheese
2 tablespoons finely chopped sweet onion (such as Vidalia®)
1 tablespoon dried basil
1 teaspoon lemon juice
½ teaspoon minced fresh ginger root
1 dash Worcestershire sauce
salt and ground black pepper to taste

Nutrition Info

527.6 calories
carbohydrate: 4.8 g
cholesterol: 85.9 mg
fat: 44.6 g
fiber: 1.2 g
protein: 26.6 g
saturatedFat: 9.1 g
servingSize: -
sodium: 683.8 mg
sugar: 1.8 g
transFat: : -
unsaturatedFat: : -

Directions

  1. Mix chicken, bacon, cucumber, celery, and apple in a large bowl.

  2. Whisk mayonnaise, blue cheese, sweet onion, basil, lemon juice, ginger, Worcestershire sauce, salt, and pepper together in a bowl, pour over the chicken mixture and toss to coat.

  3. Cover bowl with plastic wrap and refrigerate until chilled, at least 20 minutes.

Recipe Yield

4 servings

Recipe Note

My family really likes this on hot summer days. We think that the tart, sharp, salty, and sweet flavors teamed with the juicy/crunchy bits of cucumber and apple is amazing. Keep salad chilled until serving. Serve over mixed greens.

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