Waldorf Style Salad with Chicken

Name: Waldorf Style Salad with Chicken
Yield: 1 salad
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: Dressing :; 2 tbsp. mayonnaise; 1 tbsp. sour cream; 1 1/2 tsp. honey (or granulated sugar); 1/2 tsp. apple cider vinegar; 1/4 tsp. poppy seeds; pinch salt and pepper; 1-2 tsp. milk (optional to thin out dressing); Salad :; 1/2 cup diced apples; 1/2 cup red grapes, sliced in half; 1/2 cup coarsely chopped walnuts; 1/4 cup dried cranberries; 1/4 cup thinly sliced celery; 1 cooked and diced chicken breast; 1 1/2 cups chopped romaine lettuce (or green of choice)

Christina @cook_3000087

USA

This is a spin on a classic Waldorf salad, but with the added protein of chicken and served over romaine to make it into a hearty lunch. I also put together a creamy poppy seed dressing for this, rather than using mayo only, which is what a traditional Waldorf salad is tossed with. I generally eat salads at work, so I usually pack my salads up in a quart sized mason jar to easily take it with me. Recipe loosely adapted from : The Domestic Geek

Ingredients

1 salad

Dressing :
2 tbsp.mayonnaise
1 tbsp.sour cream
1 1/2 tsp.honey (or granulated sugar)
1/2 tsp.apple cider vinegar
1/4 tsp.poppy seeds
pinchsalt and pepper
1-2 tsp.milk (optional to thin out dressing)
Salad :
1/2 cupdiced apples
1/2 cupred grapes, sliced in half
1/2 cupcoarsely chopped walnuts
1/4 cupdried cranberries
1/4 cupthinly sliced celery
1cooked and diced chicken breast
1 1/2 cupschopped romaine lettuce (or green of choice)

Cooking Instructions

1

Whisk together all of the dressing ingredients in a small bowl and set aside.
2

The dressing is quite thick (especially if you use sugar instead of honey), so if you'd like it thinner, you can add milk a tsp. or so at a time until you reach the consistency you like.
3

For the salad, just toss everything together, drizzle the desired amount of dressing over the top and enjoy!
4

If you'd like to pack this in a mason jar like I do, use a wide mouth quart sized one. Dressing in the bottom, then layer in the celery, apples, grapes, chicken, romaine, dried cranberries and walnuts...in that order.

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Written by

Christina @cook_3000087

on May 26, 2017 04:16

USA

I love to bake and to try out new recipes! I'm always on the lookout for simple dinners for busy weeknights. A lot of the recipes I post on here are ones I've found on Pinterest or from different bloggers, and that I've tried and really enjoyed, but I always reference to where I got the recipe from in the recipe description and the pictures are my own. If there's no source listed, then it's a rare recipe that I came up with. I have two wonderful kids and I hope to pass on my love of cooking and baking to them.

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