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 ½-2 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

[HisPixie]

Made this for my mother's birthday luncheon today and it was a hit. I did make some changes. I only used 1 TBL lemon juice, omitted the dill seed and used a TBL of prepared pesto sauce instead of parsley. Will make again!

[Chef #1506604]

Classic chicken salad. Nice and easy. Goes great on salads, sandwiches, and vegetables.