Chicken Salad for Sandwiches

ellie_'s Note:

Simple old-fashioned chicken salad which is perfect for sandwiches or stuffing tomatoes. Although the recipe calls for boiling uncooked chicken leftover chicken would also work fine and give wonderful flavor to the chicken salad. Recipe source: local newspaper

• Total Time: 40 mins
• Prep Time: 10 mins
• Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients:

Servings: 4

• 2 whole boneless chicken breasts
• 1 stalk celery
• 1 onion, quartered
• 1 cup celery, chopped
• 1 1/2-2 cups mayonnaise (depending on how wet you like your chicken salad)
• 2 tablespoons lemon juice
• salt and pepper
• 2 tablespoons fresh parsley, chopped
• 1 teaspoon dill seed

Directions:

1. Place chicken, celery stalk and onion in saucepan with water to cover.
2. Bring to a boil and simmer 20 minutes or until chicken is done.
3. Drain and discard onion and celery.
4. Let chicken cool.
5. In a food processor chop chicken.
6. In a medium sized bowl combine chicken with mayonnaise, salt& pepper, parsley, dill seed, chopped celery and lemon juice.
7. Cover and refrigerate until chilled.

Reviews

[Hardryv]

Very good and tasty, good job Ellie. I didnt have any fresh parsley or dill seed, so I ommited the parsley and used dill weed, 1/2 of what was suggested for the dill seed. Still was very good, I plan on making it this way from this day fourth. I chopped some romaine lettuce and put it in a bowl, mixed it up with this recipe and shook a few shakes of malt vinergar over the top, delicious!! Thanks

[arroz241_11561377]

Very good basic recipe, even though I had to make some minor changes based on what I had on hand. I used cooked leftover chicken, so that eliminated steps 1-3. I had to use dried parsley (less of course) because I had no fresh. Dried dill instead of seeds, and my celery was on it's last legs, so I salvaged what I could, chopped it and a little onion in the food processor, and then added celery salt to the final product. This may look like a lot of changes, but it really isn't, hence the 5 stars. Yummy

[cook from scratch]

YUM!! Had some leftover chicken to be dealt with today. Love the idea of cooking raw in the celery and onions though without using them in the recipe! I will definitely be trying that soon! I subbed celery seed since I had no celery and was out of dill as well. I know chicken salad with dill is awesome though and I cannot wait to try it will fresh this summer! Thanks for a winner recipe!