re: How do you make your chicken salad?

First, I get in my car. Then I drive to Calvin's to buy it.

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I poached chicken breasts in crab boil then cooled them and food processored them with celery, green onion, mayo, dijon mustard, lemon juice, paprika, and some emeril's essence.

What would you habe done?

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sounds interesting, I usually broil a chicken or buy a broiled chicken and debone it. I like celery,onions,garlic,green onions,dill pickle,green olives, blue plate mayo,creamy french mustard.

chop everything including chicken mix, chill, serve on toasted Italian white bread with lettuce tomatoes and bacon.

then take a nap

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Count Chocula

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Since I cant make it beter than Calvins, I just buy theirs

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yes you can, just add cream cheese to the recipe and puree

I make it once a month for shindigs and i'm no MeridianDog

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The first time I ate chicken salad with grapes I thought it was a little strange...wrong, just frickin delicious.

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Sometimes I add grapes and nuts to my Calvin's. Delish.

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Beagle Bagel Chicken Salad

5-6 chicken breasts, cooked and shredded
5 rounded T. sour cream
6 rounded T. mayo
1/2 t. thyme
1 1/4 t. salt
1 t. pepper
1/2 t. garlic powder
3 oz. sliced almonds, *toasted
3 oz. red grapes, halved


Mix all together and refrigerate several hours or overnight. Adjust thyme and other seasonings to taste.


*To toast almonds, heat a small skillet to medium heat. Add almonds and toss just until they begin to brown slightly. Transfer to a plate to cool.

Beagle Bagel often serves a sun-dried tomato bagel with this chicken salad. A delicious combination!

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this is my favorite local chicken salad (from beagel bagel)

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yes you can, just add cream cheese to the recipe and puree

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Tommy, great advice cept I'm too lazy. Remember, I'm the guy that uses Savoi's roux and kitchen bouquet.

thanks for that recipe Coat I'm bookmarking that for future use as well.

Kept looking for my post from earlier and saw everything I wrote in someone else's post and when I got to the end realized I had been posting on my phone and it never went out.

Let me do it again.

Lots of chicken salad recipes turn out good. I'm not sure that I have a favorite.

We either use chicken tenders, poached in chicken broth with celery, pepper and salt, which I like and the wife says is always too dry, or we use Sam’s rotisserie chicken. The Sam’s is a lot juicier, but it is all the way across town. We cut it into ½ inch chunks and add Hellman’s mayo, chopped celery and chopped sweet pickles.

Alternate additions depend on our mood and include chopped walnuts, craisins, halved grapes, diced Apples, a splash of not too dry white wine and maybe other things I am forgetting. I like mine chunky. There is a caterer place here that makes really good finely minced chicken salad and if someone brings it to a gathering, I’ll happily eat it, but the stuff is too easy to make to go somewhere to buy it and I like it chunky if I make it.

We never go to the beach without a big chilled bowl of chicken salad in the cooler. Love it on Ritz crackers or wheatberry bread. May well be my favorite Saturday lunch.

I had no idea I was the only one who uses hard boiled eggs, like I do in potato salad and tuna salad. Surely, it is not I who am the weird one?

Am? Is? Ain't. I ain't the weird one.

I smoke or grill my chicken for chicken salad. I don't use a food processor because I don't like the "pasty" texture. I chop, extremely fine, with a chef's knife.