Italian Chicken Salad

Submitted by BlondieItaliana

"This is an old favorite of mine from childhood... but nowadays goes great for tea-parties when served on toast wedges or just plain, served stuffed into a tomato for presentation... or my husbands favorite way: sandwich style topped with a few pieces of crisp bacon with a slice of avocado between two pieces of white bread! This is great for using up leftovers from Rotisserie Chicken..."

 

• Ready In: 20mins
• Ingredients: 12
• Serves: 4

ingredients

• 473.18-709.77 ml cooked chicken (I use food processor, but you can also use 2 forks & shred to a consistency similar to tuna or pulle)
• 78.78 ml Hellmann's mayonnaise
• 113.39 g Philadelphia Cream Cheese, softened
• 118.29 ml chopped celery
• 78.78 ml chopped onion
• 118.29 ml pitted black olives, drained & chopped
• 170.09 g jar marinated artichoke hearts, drained & chopped
• 59.14 ml pinoli nuts, chopped (pine nuts)
• to taste salt
• to taste pepper
• to taste garlic powder
• 0.25 ml oregano

directions

1. I use my mini-food processor to chop all of the ingredients except the chicken -- I just give them a few "pulses" per ingredient so they are not pureed in the food processor.
2. Mix mayonnaise, and cream cheese together in bowl until creamy. Stir in chicken & remaining ingredients. Chill until ready to serve.
3. *Can add more or less of the mayonnaise & cream cheese mixture according to taste/texture desired.
4. Note: you can buy the chicken pre-cooked or make it ahead of time. I recommend using all white meat.
5. Also, you can substitute the pinoli nuts with chopped almond slivers if budget-conscious.

Reviews

[JackieOhNo!]

This was delightful and different! I think the addition of the cream cheese really made the difference, and all the other ingredients really blended nicely together. I have not seen a chicken salad recipe like this before, but I will definitely be making this again! Made for Zaar Alphabet Soup Tag Game.

 

[iris5555]

This was so very good. I halved the quantity, but used the full amount of artichokes. Served on a bed of lettuce it was a great dinner for a hot summer's day.

 

[vlmach]

Delicioso!!!!!! * * * * * five stars

 

[Mom Mindy 66]

Words can't describe how delicious this is & how easy it is to make with a mini-chopper. I used that for everything & made recipe with leftover whole chicken. This would be great for brunch. I was dying to have this on a croissant for some reason but had to settle for wheat toast! This was very very tasty.

 

[Angenette D.]

Sounds too delightful! Can't wait to try this!