Hot Chicken Salad (photos)

Hot Chicken Salad

Many years back, the company I worked for was involved in a joint venture in Corbin, Kentucky. Not that it is important, but KFC #1 is there. KFC #1 is a combination Café and Motel, and is the place where the Colonel started cooking his chicken. If you are ever in Corbin, there is a small KFC museum there that explains the Colonel's business start-up.

There is a burger place there (just across I-75 from the Holiday Inn) I really liked and a Mom and Pop café I enjoyed. I spent a lot of time in Corbin over 7 years and I must have eaten 60 meals at the mom and pop place..

Hot chicken salad was one of their lunch specials. I think it was on their Thursday menu. Eventually, they gave me the recipe. Here it is.

Ingredients

There is a can of cream of mushroom soup in the photo, but it somehow snuck into the photo. It is not used in this recipe.

Most of the time, we double this recipe.

Need:

1/4 - 1/2 of a rotisserie chicken, pulled apart
1/2 cup celery, diced
1 can (10-1/2 ounces) condensed cream of chicken soup, undiluted
1/2 cup mayonnaise
1/2 cup sour cream
1/2 can water chestnuts, drained and diced
1/4 cup mushrooms, diced
1/4 cup slivered almonds
2 tablespoons chopped onion
1 Tablespoon lemon juice
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon pepper
1 cup slightly crushed Ruffles Potato Chips, or 1 can french-fried onions

Optional:

Chopped green onions or parsley, for garnish



Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Pull apart chicken,



dice onions, celery, mushrooms, water chestnuts



Place chicken into a large bowl and stir in the next 11 ingredients (all except chips).



Transfer to a 9 x 9-inch baking dish that has been sprayed with Pam.



Top with Ruffles or onions. Break them up a little more than is shown here.



Bake, uncovered, until heated through, about 40 minutes. Garnish with green onions or parsley, if desired.



Serve hot, with a vegetable or two.





This heats up nicely in the microwave so leftovers work well. In this case, we took my 93 year old mom and the wife's 89 year old mom each a to go tray. Both of them like the dish a lot, so it is easy to get brownie points by taking them a plate when we make this. Neither eats much anymore, so what I show here is plenty for two meals for them.



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