3 CHICKEN SALAD RECIPES FOR SPRING | MUST TRY HEALTHY LUNCH IDEAS | QUICK AND EASY RECIPES

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3 CHICKEN SALAD RECIPES FOR SPRING | MUST TRY HEALTHY LUNCH IDEAS | QUICK AND EASY RECIPES

Southwest Chicken Salad: https://withsweethoney.com/quick-southwest-chicken-salad/
Buffalo Chicken Salad: https://www.lovebakesgoodcakes.com/buffalo-chicken-salad/
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Okay I got to tell you a little secret shh I’ve never had chicken salad before not to be confused because when I told Mony I was going to make chicken salad he thought that I was going to get lettuce and put some chicken on it I

Thought we were going to have a salad with chicken on it one of my favorite Deli options that are out there right mhm even when we were in uh Shelby a few weeks ago I had their chicken salad which was very good um but I am I’m excited about the version that we’re

Making today so we all know that I’m like I don’t want to call myself a picky eater because I really love and want to eat lots of things I just have like texture issues and so because of that I have never eaten chicken salad because I don’t like that mayonnaise texture

Although I love franch dressing but that’s different cuz you’re like dipping something crunchy in there but for me it’s like the texture of chicken salad kind of has like not been ideal but we’re going to change that today because I am determined I want to love chicken salad

And so I’m like I’m going to find some recipes that I think will have a little bit better texture have some crunch in there and that I will actually enjoy so I am so excited for today we’re going to make three different recipes now this

First one I do have to admit is actually for bony it’s not for me I saw this and I could not pass up making it because he is going to love it so much so this first one’s for him the last two are for

Me but I am so excited to try these out so as you can see here I already have kind of a lot of things prepped for this first one and it’s going to be more of like a southwest chicken salad with all of bee favorite flavors I have a

Rotisserie chicken here which makes this very easy so I’m going to get that added to our bowl and then we’ll just start dumping everything in that’s another thing about chicken salad that I love just a little bit of prep work and then it all comes together in like 5 minutes

And I feel like for spring and summer especially we’re all like on the go out and about want to take a snack to the pool or to the beach and so chicken salad just seems like such an easy option to throw in the cooler and that’s

I really really want to love them and I’m so excited to like make these today it’s a picnic classic it is so already have my chicken kind of like shredded up and I do want to tell youall we’re going to make like smaller portions because we

Are making three of these but of course you can like double this recipe use the full recipe we’re just going to make half recipes so to my chicken I’m going to add in a little bit of drained corn and that’s going to be nice cuz it’ll

Give it like a little zip of Sweetness in there and then I’m going to add in some black beans that I just rinsed black beans is one of my favorite little Specialties and I feel like I don’t eat them enough I was actually thinking um

You know what I’m excited for what I saw this reel where someone laid aluminum fo down over top of the entire Blackstone spread out huge bag of tortilla chips and built these like amazing nachos if you have like the lid to the Blackstone you just put it over top of it and melts

That cheese down then after everyone gets them so like feeds a Crowd Oh and if you’re having a little bit of uh like a gathering Outdoors you’ve already like you don’t have to transport everything so everybody like if you’re hanging on a deck or something got it right there ex

That is what I’m saying so like feeds a crowd great idea of like a little barbecue situation and then once everyone’s done you just pull the like aluminum full up and then there’s easy clean up no mess nothing is this not genius and whoever is responsible for cleaning the Blackstone appreciates that

I’m going to make this but anyway the whole reason I thought of it is because I love black beans on like my taco nachos we got to try that out though now to this I’m going to add in some little I about call these baby Tomatoes they

Are baby Tomatoes little baby Tomatoes I just like went ahead and half them the star of the show coming in that yeah so for this onion I sliced them like paper thin and then just kind of made them bite size so I add in a good amount of

Red onion cuz I know you will love that wow yes ma’am and then buy and now are saying we could smell this jalapeno like it is going to be spicy yeah that one that one is going to bring the heat so fresh jalapeno in there and already

That’s just so pretty like I just love spring because I feel like it brings so much like color and variety and just it’s so fun so anyway beautiful already now we’re going to make our sauce we’re make this a little bit healthier cuz I have this avocado Mayo which I got in my

Thrive order I do want to say a big thank you to th for sponsoring today’s video I will um show you guys what else I got in my order here here in just a few minutes but I’m going to add probably I don’t know half a cup to a

Cup in here I’d say half cup enough to like make it juicy and then I’m going to add the juice of a lime which is going to give it that like fresh zip and then for our seasonings we’re going to do some garlic a little bit of cumin some

Chili powder and I also add a little bit of salt and pepper in There I feel this Mayo needs just a little bit more lime juice kind of thin it out so I’m going to do a big squeeze I love that you can see all the specks of those seasonings in there mhm oh it just looks so good it smells good so just add your

Dressing right into your bowl um this recipe did call for am I saying this right Mony papitas yeah Papas um I looked for them in the grocery store and I couldn’t find them I was so bummed but I bet that would give like a great little crunch to

This yeah there was some uh there was some snack mix that we used to get sometimes and it would have pitas in it and you would pick through basically and get all the papitas out right and then I’d go back to it sometime later on and

Be like where’s all the papitas yes I remember so if you can find them at your grocery store add those in as well this just looks so delicious oh yeah you are going to love this okay that is it so easy you’re telling me that I’m about to have southwest chicken salad that

Quickly yes you know what I love about this so we have some like iceberg lettuce if you like butter cups you do it too but we’re going to put it in like a lettuce cup because I think that will be just like a nice fresh crunch on

There a great a great uh method of transfer from the the hand to the mouth yeah but you can also eat it on a sandwich but also I feel like this would be really good with some tortilla chips oh yeah just to eat it almost like not a

Dip but kind of you know I forgot an ingredient it’s also supposed to have smoked paprika in there I just knew there was something missing in here I’m going to sprinkle a little bit of this in there and that’s going to give it a little bit more uh like smokiness

Smokiness and bring in a little more color to this yeah so good Presentation presentation on point for real though I do think the um the lettuce wrap is the perfect vessel for consuming this yeah like you’re getting Taco Vibes but you’re having chicken salad a lot of times chicken salad comes placed on a nice little piece of lettuce yeah so just a healthier version with

All the same good flavors mhm oh my gosh it’s speaking my Lang which monkey those are all of your favorite things that is delicious when I saw this I was like my bunky is going to love it I had to make it for you definitely this

Is so so good a nice little Spin and change up on the traditional versions that are out there cuz a lot of like regular versions of chicken so pardon me while I finished chewing I think a lot of chicken salads out there that you get they’re sometimes

Like on the sweeter side like I’m one of the ones we’re going to make here in a minute it’s going to have a little bit more of a sweeter element to it but this one more Savory and delicious and I would highly recommend getting those papitas in there cuz that would actually

Provide a nice little textural change but I mean catching a little bean corn jalapeno so good it’s smooth and creamy Perfection it’s kind of like a light like a lighter lunch oh yeah filling this is so good and it like got it for a couple days you can enjoy it go to the

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For this next recipe I know a lot of you especially chicken silicon sewers out there are going to like Jess this is just like a waldorf tasty salad so bad she smells the chicken yeah you’re going to be like this is just a waldorf chicken salad but I’ll have you know it

Is not there is a secret ingredient in this which is why I chose this recipe to try because I’ve become such a fan of cottage cheese as you guys know now our grocery store didn’t have my good culture which I really love but the daisy brain will be fine um but anyway

This recipe instead of using a lot of mayonnaise they use cottage cheese which that’s going to give you even more protein it’s going to be healthier so all around I feel like I’m going to really enjoy this version of like a wal dwarf chicken salad so down here I just

Have my red grapes and I’m just kind of quartering them so they’re bite size and then I have some celery over here and I really like paper thin basically slice this because I don’t mind celery but I don’t love it so if I’m going to bite

Into it which I do think it needs to be in there for like that crunch element um I just want it to be thinner SCE of you like it’s like you want it in there but you don’t want to really know what I don’t want a huge like chunk of celery

Bite okay so over here we have our chicken which buy so kindly put in our food processor and got us a really finely chopped chicken so to my chicken I’m going to add in my grapes and celery and then this is like a really easy shortcut funky grass made this bag

Of like sliced almonds and cranberries cuz you want both of those in there so this is like a little salad topper it just comes with both which makes it really easy are you proud of me for finding the Dual that was good I was I

Saw like one and then the other and I thought wait a minute there’s both of them together we’re going this route and see I like this recipe too because I love grapes and I love like almonds and cranberries and that flavor it’ll give kind of like a little bit of

Sweetness the dry cranberry is going to bring a nice little chew yes agreed so we’re still going to use a little bit of mayo in here so I’m going to use the avocado Mayo again did you like this the Mayo oh yeah I forgot to mention that

When I uh was eating my Southwest version yeah it was so so good oh good like not missing a thing it actually I think it almost made it taste better it just tasted more pure and clean delicious okay good so I’m kind of like um I told you guys not doing like this

Whole recipe so I’m just going to put like two small taable spoons in there the good thing about chicken salad is you can either make like as much as we are right now or you can make an entire bucket of it it can feed a crowd

Or it can feed a couple that’s right okay so now for my favorite part this cottage cheese and y’all I just become such a fan I know some people don’t love it I love it so I’m going to put put probably two bigger size spoonfuls in here and

Then we’re going to do a little bit of salt and Pepper see this to me is like the perfect texture and consistency because it’s not like overly moist for all the people who hate that word it’s not like too man easy it just is like barely held together but held together mhm that looks really delicious so this is how I’m going to

Eat mine buy just like made me a little piece of buttered toast with some sourdough bread and I’m going to just do kind of like an open face little sandwich I took a little bite of the chicken just to make sure it was seasoned really well and it’s like

Perfect so I’m so excited to try this I was just trying to take a picture and monkeyy over here already eaten his this is really really good as well you like it mhm now since you are a fan of chicken salad have you ever had chicken salad with cottage cheese and what do you think of the texture lost

Stuff piece of celery here I think this one being that it has the sour sour cream that it has the cottage cheese in it a little bit of the the finer chicken style is the way you want to go yeah um the cottage cheese brings a very welcome

Update you like it to the chicken salad game for me but have you ever had something with cottage cheese I’m going to say no right I thought that was like such a unique whenever I found that recipe I was like wow I got to make this

But I like it like it’s it’s really good I think it’s a nice little maybe maybe even call it a modern day update to the old traditional wild dwarf chicken salad okay let me try it all right so we’re all here as bunky vent Ventures into the world of chicken

Salad first time we’re over here her life is about to change and everybody’s going to witness it I’m very excited that was good good stuff right M so I’m telling you sorry Pepper just got me so bad back in my throat Mak my eyes water okay so if you

Have not made a chicken salad with cottage cheese highly suggest because the texture is actually wonderful and the little bits of cranberries and almonds in there I love like it’s just such a little burst of flavor I haven’t gotten a bite with a grape yet but I can

Tell you I’m going to love that as well but this is so good and I love eating on a piece of toast like I feel that makes it even better yeah I have been just really on like the search for easy healthier lunches because monkey and I

Both work from home and I want something that I can grab that’s going to like fill me up but be good for me and so I feel like this is one of those recipes that is like easy go-to I’m so excited to make this over some fruits fruits

Veggies a little protein from the cottage cheese and chicken yes I want to try the grape M that’s where the grap makes it juicy mhm now y’all already know this about me but I love buffalo chicken anything so when I’m scrolling Pinterest and I see a buffalo chicken

Salad is that you would say it Buffalo chicken salad I’m like uh yes I have to make that one because out of any of them I know I’m going to love this one now this is also probably the easiest one it’s just truly a few little ingredients

I already have my chicken in here that we put in the food processor and then to this one I’m going to add in some celery you could also do like some diced green onions in here if you wanted to to give like a little bit more flavor then to

This I’m going to add in my favorite buffalo sauce and I like it spicy so I don’t mind if it’s a little more Buffalo than anything else now for this you can do mayonnaise or sour cream I’m actually going to do a little bit of sour cream

And then a little bit of cottage cheese to add a little bit more protein in here so like kind of like a big tablespoon of that and a big tablespoon of my cottage cheese y’all that’s it it is literally that simple hold though I have this Kinder’s Buffalo seasoning and I love it

I was even thinking you could put some blue cheese in here but since this has that blue cheese flavor I’m going to put a little bit of the seasoning in here just to give it even more Flavor oh that is spicy y’all it’s that simple you talk about a recipe that comes together in less than 5 minutes like the first one I’m going to eat this in a little lettuce cup because I think that’ll be really good and refreshing buy was like you already done making

That I was like yeah it was really fast well I heard you down here constructing everything uh-huh you brought a little extra heat to the party I did it’s it’s a little spicy so simple but so good again love the cottage cheese and I feel

Like the lettuce is the way to go with this because it’s so refreshing with like all that spice but I love that like the chicken is cold the lettuce is cold just tastes like something I want to eat on like a warm day that is very nice

It’s good mhm I feel like you know if you’re like me and you’re a fan of Buffalo anything especially like buffalo chicken dip but you want a way to like have that Buffalo flavor in a much healthier version this is the way to go I think that everyone should make all

Three of these and just have the variety for everybody to pick and choose what flavor like you know whatever somebody’s preference may be that’s actually really smart like you could totally me prep all of this one a Sunday it would take you like 30 minutes and then your family can

Pick like which one they want to have through the week you have lunches ready to go snacks such a good idea be all right so I’ll have all these recipes linked down below for you guys I love you so much thank you for hanging out

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