Creamy Chicken Apple Salad
This salad is a low-carb, power-food dynamo. Easy to prepare and packed full of good nutrition—protein from chicken, fiber from the apple, and healthy fat from the walnuts—this is a quick diabetes-friendly recipe that's perfect for lunches and making ahead. Full of flavor and crunch—you won’t believe how easy it is! If there's extra chicken, whip up a Chicken Caesar Salad Lunch Wrap to go with it and you've got a balanced meal.
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- Prep time
- 15 min
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- Servings
- 8 Servings
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- Serving size
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1/2 cup
Ingredients
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cooked chicken breast (chopped)
- 2 cup
- 2 cup
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celery (diced)
- 2 stalks
- 2 stalks
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green onions (chopped)
- 2
- 2
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medium Jonagold apple (finely diced)
- 1
- 1
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walnuts (chopped)
- 3 tbsp
- 3 tbsp
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light mayonnaise
- 1/4 cup
- 1/4 cup
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yogurt (plain, fat-free)
- 1/4 cup
- 1/4 cup
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lemon (juiced)
- 1/2
- 1/2
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black pepper
- 1/8 tsp
- 1/8 tsp
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Directions
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In a medium bowl, combine the chicken, celery, green onions, apple, and walnuts
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In a small bowl, whisk together the mayonnaise, yogurt, lemon juice and pepper. Pour over the chicken mixture and gently stir to coat.
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Serve salad over your choice of lettuce leaves, bread or crackers.
Reviews
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This is delicious, I use to buy the store bought chicken salad but from now on I'm going to be making this one. Just looked at the reviews before I made it and added the dill, I think that's all it needed. I was going to put it in a sandwich but decided to put it on a bed of salad. Wow it reminds me of the chicken salad sandwich at Panera, definitely saving this recipe
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The best chicken salad recipe I have found. Even my husband enjoyed it. I increased the mayo by the yogurt and eliminated yogurt due to dairy allergy.
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This was really good. I added dried dill for more flavor and used half apple/half grapes.
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My mother is a diabetic that survived a stroke 5 months ago. I do lots of research to find recipes to make our food tasty so she knows food can still be enjoyable while eating healthy. I fortunately have always chosen a healthy lifestyle so it’s been fun to find tasty recipes she and I can enjoy together. I made this recipe as described and added just a few grapes as well. This chicken salad is so delicious and it made her super excited to eat something that had such a great flavor. Thanks for making our fuel super yummy.
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Just made this, it turned out Fabulous. I did add a little more mayo. and a whole lemon. I also added for a little kick a little Chipotle Chile Pepper :).
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I've made this recipe twice and the second time I made it, I used a bit less yogurt and a bit more lemon juice, and I didn't measure the walnuts. I also chopped everything up suuuper small (so it doesn't really look as nice as that picture) because I like to eat it with crackers or chips and trying to balance large chunks of chicken on Triscuits or whatever can get pretty precarious pretty quickly. This isn't a mind-blowing chicken salad recipe, but it's still really good and I'll definitely make it again. It's also super quick and easy and affordable (there's a lot to be said for that). I think I will use more pepper next time, though, and maybe some dijon mustard and onion. It's nice and creamy but needs something to give it more of a kick!