Easy Chicken Salad Recipe made with Greek Yogurt
My absolute favorite salad is chicken salad. You can eat it as a sandwich or just plain on a plate with some fruit or veggies on the side.
I’ve said this before, I absolutely love mayo-based salads. To make them something I could enjoy more often I had to lighten up the recipes. I’ve found that using 1/2 mayo and 1/2 Greek yogurt gives me the same creaminess without as many calories.
I’ve also found that you can use 1/2 the amount of dressing that most recipes call for and still have a very tasty salad. This recipe only uses a 1/2 cup of mayo and yogurt.
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Easy Chicken Salad
Ingredients
- 2 cups chopped cooked chicken breasts
- 1/2 cup frozen peas, thawed
- 1/4 cup chopped celery
- 2 tbsp green onions (greens only)
- 1 tbsp fresh dill
- 1/4 cup mayo
- 1/4 cup plain greek yogurt
- 2 tbsp lemon juice (juice of 1/2 lemon)
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/4 tsp ground black pepper
Instructions
- Chop cooked chicken breast into bite-sized pieces
- Mix yogurt, mayo, lemon juice, green onions, dill, and spices.
- Add peas to a mixing bowl.
- Finally, add the diced chicken breast
- Garnish with additonal dill sprigs
- Serve on lettuce or as a sandwich on bread or a roll
Notes
Nutrition
Alternatives
While my recipe is simple and delicious, there are other things you can add or swap in or out of this recipe:
Salad Additions
You can also add any other these to this salad:
- red or sweet yellow onions
- slivered almonds
- chopped walnuts
- sliced green grapes
- steamed broccoli
- hard-boiled eggs
- dill pickles
- fresh herbs; parsley, thyme, basil, rosemary
What to Serve it On
There are lots of things you can serve chicken salad on:
- Bread: White, Rye, Wheat, Multi-Grain, Pita
- Croissants or other rolls
- Lettuce Leaf or Bed: Romaine, Head Lettuce, Bibb Lettuce, Mixed Greens
- Make a wrap with a tortilla.
Layer It
Build a complete meal:
- Lettuce
- Tomato Slices
- Onion Slice
- Sliced Cheese
What to Have on the Side
I’m fine with a plate full of chicken salad but sometimes I like to have a little something extra on the side:
- fruit salad
- deviled eggs
- sliced dill pickles
- potato chips
- raw veggies and hummus
- cottage cheese
Early American chicken salad recipes can be found in 19th-century Southern cookbooks, including Sarah Rutledge’s The Carolina Housewife: Or, House and Home (1847) and Abby Fisher‘s What Mrs. Fisher Knows About Old Southern Cooking (1881). Rutledge details a recipe for “A Salad To Be Eaten With Cold Meat Or Fowl” that explains how to make a mayonnaise from scratch, before adding it to cold meats (chicken and seafood)
There is nothing better than classic chicken salad sandwiches. However, you can make this classic chicken salad recipe your own by adding or subtracting some ingredient suggestions.
Enjoy!
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Great post Lynn! Love all the details and I like that your recipe is a healthy one!!!
Thank you Crystal – This was really a fun book to grab inspiration from.
Lynn, this chicken salad recipe looks so good. I love making chicken salad. I can eat just off a plate or in a sandwich. And those deviled eggs look good too. I was drooling my way through this post. -Meagan
I love it too – that’s why I had to cut the mayo! 🙂 I don’t even wait for the plate, I eat it out of the bowl I made it in 🙂
Thanks for the blast to the past. What fun it is thinking of those social, bridge, lunch clubs. Sounds like fun (except the cigarette smoke). I’m looking forward to making the chicken salad.
Btw, I LOVED your post about the ghost. So interesting!
Hi Robin – It would be fun to revive the old social club ideas. I’m with you on the smoke. My Dad smoked when we were little in our house and I can’t even imagine. I don’t remember it as being awful but I think everyones house smelled like smoke back in the day???
I’m glad you liked my ghost post. She is as real to me today as she was then. I’ve often thought of ringing the door bell of that house and asking if the current occupants still have an issue with her.