Recipe: Tasty Waldorf Style Salad with Chicken

Waldorf Style Salad with Chicken. Lightly toss chicken with grape halves, cranberries, apple, walnuts, and onion in a salad bowl. Whisk mayonnaise, vanilla yogurt, and lemon juice in a separate bowl. Pour dressing over salad and toss again to coat.

Coat the chopped apple with the lemon juice in a large bowl. Add the chicken, grapes, celery, raisins and walnuts, and gently combine. In a small bowl, combine the yogurt, mayonnaise, orange juice. You can cook Waldorf Style Salad with Chicken using 16 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Waldorf Style Salad with Chicken

1. Prepare of Dressing :.
2. Prepare of mayonnaise.
3. Prepare of sour cream.
4. It's of honey (or granulated sugar).
5. You need of apple cider vinegar.
6. You need of poppy seeds.
7. Prepare of salt and pepper.
8. You need of milk (optional to thin out dressing).
9. You need of Salad :.
10. You need of diced apples.
11. It's of red grapes, sliced in half.
12. You need of coarsely chopped walnuts.
13. Prepare of dried cranberries.
14. It's of thinly sliced celery.
15. Prepare of cooked and diced chicken breast.
16. It's of chopped romaine lettuce (or green of choice).

Leftover cooked chicken makes this chicken Waldorf salad, loaded with apples, grapes, celery and walnuts, a snap to assemble. If you use rotisserie chicken, keep in mind that it's salty and omit. This fresh and crunchy Waldorf Chicken Salad is a fantastic way to up your chicken salad game. It's chocked-full with rotisserie chicken, sweet chunks of apple, red grapes, chewy golden raisins, crisp celery and toasted walnuts all beautifully combined with a homemade dressing.

Waldorf Style Salad with Chicken step by step

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..

This healthy chicken Waldorf salad uses grilled chicken and a light dressing that blends mayo with Greek yogurt! Great for sandwiches, wraps and salads. Since then, it has remained a classic and has influenced many variations and twists on the original. By adding chicken and grapes to the salad, you can create an element of heartiness to this dish that makes it perfect for lunches all week. Place chicken on a baking sheet and season generously with salt and pepper.