Mom’s Chicken Salad

My mom calls this recipe the fruity chicken salad. It is one of my absolute summer favorites. Pretty easy – no complex ingredients, but delicious.

My version tonight is more of a chicken-y fruit salad. I used our leftover grilled chicken but if you want it to be really good, you should use chicken breast. So… first you cut up your chicken and dump it in the bowl. Then add equal amounts of grapes and apples. Like this:

Then for the dressing just mix up enough mayonnaise to coat everything. For flavor we add about 1 teaspoon of curry and salt and pepper to taste. You should also add 1 teaspoon of horseradish sauce if you want some zest. I also threw in some celery seed instead of celery. Mom’s recipe calls for celery, but I’m not a big fan. Instead, I added pineapple. (Always a good substitute for celery.)

A note about the curry. Aaron HATES curry, but he doesn’t mind it in this dish. However, if you have a curry hater in your house you may want to add slightly less curry. So mix it up thusly.

My mom’s recipe suggests that you serve over lettuce and garnish with tomatoes and hard-boiled eggs, which would be awesome. But we didn’t have that, so we just used some romaine.

Enjoy! And happy early Mother’s day to our moms. We wish we could be there, but we’ll have to owe you a good meal for the next time you come to Boone.