Grab those apples together with pecans together with whip upward a tasty bowl of Greek Yogurt Chicken Salad alongside Apples & Pecans. It makes for i real perfect-for-Fall sandwich!
I've made a lot of chicken salads y'all. And you know what? This Greek yogurt chicken salad may merely hold upward the best i yet.
Yes, it's that tasty. I'm happy to nation it fifty-fifty got an enthusiastic "This is so good!" from our six-year-old miss when she tried her kickoff spoonful!
Loaded alongside the wonderful Fall flavors of apples together with pecans, a combat of sweetness from carmine grapes, together with the creaminess of Greek yogurt, this chicken salad packs a resounding season punch. Not to nurture ...
I dearest that it's a combat to a greater extent than health-conscious than the typical mayonnaise-laden chicken salad ... together with packs a piddling extra poly peptide from the purpose of Greek yogurt.
The inspiration for this recipe came from ii things ...
The kickoff inspiration was our family's watch terminal weekend to an apple tree orchard. It was piddling Miss H.'s kickoff fourth dimension at an orchard, together with equally expected, she loved it. We weren't able to alternative our ain apples because of this year's smaller-than-usual apple tree crop inwards our expanse ... apparently, some jump storms damaged the blooms. But nosotros were able to accept a hay ride together with alternative our ain pumpkin, which Miss H. adored.
And spell nosotros couldn't alternative our ain apples, nosotros were able to purchase some super-fresh, just-picked carmine beauties from the orchard stand.
Which together with so promptly ended upward inwards this perfect-for-Fall Greek Yogurt Chicken Salad alongside Apples & Pecans.
This salad's 2d inspiration was the new Pepperidge Farm Harvest BlendsTM bread. Because shouldn't a sandwich made alongside a to a greater extent than health-conscious, whole-grain, harvest-inspired staff of life receive got a to a greater extent than health-conscious, harvest-inspired filling?
Well yes. Yes, it should.
I was fortunate to instruct to endeavour out all 3 varieties of the novel Harvest BlendsTM ... together with I'm hooked. Being an only-whole-grain-bread family, Pepperidge Farm® Harvest BlendsTM will easily slide correct into our staff of life line-up. While each multifariousness is dissimilar inwards texture together with flavor, they all receive got keen fresh-baked taste. And they're all dainty together with hearty together with filling!
I specially dearest the super soft texture of the Sprouted Grain, the crunchiness of the Seeded Grain, together with the slight sweetness from molasses inwards the Ancient Grain.
So which did I span alongside my Greek Yogurt Chicken Salad, you ask?
The Ancient Grain! The bread's subtle sweetness paired actually good alongside the salad's tang from the Greek yogurt together with sweetness from the pecans together with fruit. But truly, I mean value whatsoever of the 3 varieties would brand a fabulous sandwich.
So catch those apples together with pecans together with whip upward a tasty bowl of Greek Yogurt Chicken Salad alongside Apples & Pecans. It makes for a real perfect-for-Fall sandwich, indeed!
Ingredients
- 2 c. chopped cooked boneless, skinless chicken thorax {about 2 or 3 chicken breasts}
- 2/3 c. plain Greek yogurt
- 1/3 c. finely chopped carmine onion
- 1 T. fresh lemon juice
- total of 1 c. fruit & nut add-ins: chopped apples, chopped pecans, & halved grapes {I purpose a mixture of all 3 1/3 c. apples, 1/3 c. pecans, together with 1/3 c. grapes}
- 1/4 tsp. curry powder
- salt & pepper, to gustation {I purpose 1/2 tsp. common salt together with 1/4 tsp. pepper}
- Pepperidge Farm Harvest BlendsTM bread
- Combine Greek yogurt, carmine onion, lemon juice, curry powder, salt, together with pepper inwards a mixing bowl; stir to combine. Add chicken, tossing to coat. Stir inwards apples, pecans, and/or grapes.
- Chill for nearly xxx minutes earlier serving to let flavors to meld.
- Serve equally a sandwich filling alongside Pepperidge Farm Harvest BlendsTM bread.
*NOTE: A 5.3 oz. container of Greek yogurt is merely shy of 2/3 cup. If you don't experience similar buying 'the big' container of Greek yogurt, purpose a acquit on of mayonnaise to brand upward the divergence to 2/3 cup.
