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“You Don’t Even Know It’s Healthy!” Chicken Salad

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I LOVE chicken salad. You hand me a creamy, full-fat chicken salad concoction on a buttery croissant and I’m a happy girl, until I remember how much better I feel when I eat healthy! This lightened-up version of chicken salad is so good that my dad couldn’t even tell I used fat-free products. It’s really easy to make and you can add what you like!

Ingredients

  • 1 teaspoon Dijon Mustard
  • 1 teaspoon Lemon Juice
  • 2 Tablespoons Mayonnaise Made With Olive Oil
  • 2 Tablespoons Fat Free Mayonnaise
  • 1 Tablespoon Fat-free Or Light Sour Cream
  • ½ teaspoons Salt
  • ¼ teaspoons Black Pepper
  • ½ Tablespoons Dill Weed
  • ½ Tablespoons Dried Parsley
  • 8 ounces, weight Chicken Breast, Cooked And Shredded
  • ⅔ cups Chopped Celery

Preparation

In a large bowl combine Dijon mustard, lemon juice, mayonnaise, and sour cream. Mix all dry seasonings into the cream mixture, stir well, then add chicken and celery until completely covered. Chill in the refrigerator before serving.

Eat it on whole wheat bread or on lettuce leaves. This recipe usually yields about 4-5 lunch sandwiches for me, but you can eat tons of it in one sitting and still be pretty guilt-free! Make it in larger batches if that’s your plan.

You can add stuff if you’d like. Some people like fruit or nuts in their chicken salads, but I’m a pretty simple girl when it comes down to it. That’s what is so great—you can mix and match, add and subtract until you find what tastes best and what works for you.

I usually don’t like fat-free mayo, but doing half fat-free and half mayo with olive oil makes it barely noticeable and the flavor of dill weed in this recipe really does it for me! You can use some fat-free greek yogurt in place of the sour cream. Both ways are delicious.

Enjoy!

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Twinks on 8.6.2010

Yum, I love dill and this sounds great!

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ibmzlorinsc01 on 8.6.2010

Exactly what i’m looking for.

While i have enjoyed so many of these recipes, i find i now have to tweek them. i have high cholesterol and have hade both a triple by pass plus caroltid artery transplant surgery to the brain. Some things, like the oj cake, i let slide and use all the listed ingredients. but here lately, ive started to worry about my condition again. Not to mention im getting fat-er.lol

please post more recipes like this one.

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Chaz on 9.4.2012

Pretty good – even my hub didn’t think it tasted “healthy.” The taste is not particularly different from other chix salads, but still a good, healthy alternative.

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