Chicken Salad for Sandwiches

"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"
 
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Ready In:
40mins
Ingredients:
9
Serves:
4
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ingredients

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directions

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

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Reviews

  1. 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
     
  2. 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
     
  3. 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!
     
  4. 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!
     
  5. Really good, I loved the fact that you process the chicken. My biggest complaint with chicken salad is the large chunks of chicken! Fine for a salad, but not in a sandwich:) I did feel the lemon was a bit overpowering, so I added a dash of sugar to counteract the acidity. Thanks for posting!
     
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Tweaks

  1. Someone may have said this already. Boiling chicken removes much of the flavor into the water which you then have us throw away. Better to roast the breasts whole in a 350 degree oven for 25 minutes.
     
  2. I removed the onion, just because I don't like them. I added sweet pickle relish. I don't measure it, just add to taste. I also used olive oil mayo to save on a few calories. And start with only 1 cup of mayo. 1 1/2 was too much for my taste.
     
  3. Pretty good. I used Light Miracle Whip instead of Mayo (healthier) and sliced green onions instead of white whole onions. Seemed like it was missing a little something, don't know what though. Works awesomely as a quick pre-made sandwich throughout the week. Didn't take long to make and pretty easy!
     
  4. 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
     
  5. This is a great and simple recipe for chicken salad. I substituted dill weed for dill seed. I used this salad with crackers for me and husbnad's snacks, and it was good.
     

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