Southern Lady Chicken Salad Food

SOUTHERN STYLE CHICKEN SALAD

Steps:

• Add chicken breasts to a sauce pan with cold water. Place pan on the stove and bring water to a boil. Cover pot and reduce to a simmer. Simmer for 14 minutes and then remove the chicken from water.
• Hard boil the eggs by adding cold water to a sauce pan and bringing the water to a boil. Add the eggs to the pan with the boiling water and boil the eggs for 10 minutes. Remove the eggs from the pot after 10 minutes and immediately transfer to an ice bath.
• Dice the red onion and celery and chop dill pickles into a fine dice. Mix together the mayo, mustard, pepper, and garlic powder.
• Chop the hard boiled eggs and cube the chicken breast. Add the chicken and eggs to a large mixing bowl with the red onion, celery, dill pickles, and mayo mixture.
• Mix all of the ingredients together until fully combined. Serve chilled on lettuce or bread.

SOUTHERN CHICKEN SALAD

Steps:

• Chop chicken as desired and place in a medium size mixing bowl.
• Wash celery stalks under cool water, chop very fine.
• Add chopped celery to mixing bowl.
• Add the chopped onions.
• Add sweet pickle relish.
• Add mayonnaise.
• Add a little sugar if desired.
• Add salt.
• Add black pepper.
• Add Mustard.
• Add the chopped boiled egg.
• Stir mixture well, cover and refrigerate for at least one hour prior to serving.
• Serve cool and enjoy!

SOUTHERN LADY CHICKEN SALAD

Steps:

• . In a large bowl, combine chicken, grapes, pecans, green onion, and bacon.
• . In a separate bowl, combine mayonnaise, sour cream, mustard, thyme, salt, and pepper. Combine mayonnaise mixture with chicken mixture.
• Cover, and refrigerate until ready to serve. Serve on croissants.
• To toast pecans - preheat oven to 350 degrees - put pecans on a lightly sprayed or parchment lined baking sheet (spray pecans with a little butter if you have it) and heat them about 5 minutes. (Don't leave them in too long.)

SOUTHERN CHICKEN SALAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 F. Line a pan with aluminum foil. Set aside.
• Brush the chicken very lightly with a little olive oil.
• To season the chicken, mix together Old Bay Seasoning, garlic powder, onion powder, and celery salt.
• Sprinkle chicken generously with seasoning on top and bottom.
• Place chicken on prepared pan and bake for 20-25 minutes. (You may need more or less time depending on the thickness of your chicken)
• Once the chicken is done, let it cool and then dice it up into small chunks and place in a large bowl.
• Add diced celery, diced onions, diced eggs, sweet relish, and dill weed to the large bowl. Stir to combine.
• Next, stir in the mayonnaise a little at a time until your desired creaminess is reached.
• Stir in parsley and black pepper
• Taste and adjust the seasonings if needed. (see note)
• Cover and refrigerate until chilled. (about 1 hour)
• Stir before serving. Serve with crackers or on buttered croissants.