Refreshingly tasty Pineapple-Pecan Chicken Salad may but live the perfect chicken salad for summertime time. Or whatever time, for that matter!
Is anyone else already thinking of the sandy beaches together with sweetness sunshine of summer? I know I certain am. And am counting downward the days to our identify unit of measurement beach opor-garai inward a few weeks.
I am, though, fully aware it's withal a calendar month away until the official starting fourth dimension of summer. So what's a ready-for-the-beach wishing-it-was-summer daughter to produce every bit she waits for warmer days together with Sun rays? Do some summertime wishin' through her food, of course!
Like past times enjoying the refreshingly delicious, scream-of-summer flavors of this Pineapple-Pecan Chicken Salad that I late whipped upward for lunch.
Chicken salad is 1 of my favorite luncheon foods. Since I swallow it together with therefore often, I mix it upward amongst lots of dissimilar variations ... similar my favorite Tarragon Chicken Salad, or Traditional Southern Chicken Salad, or even Tzatziki Chicken Salad ... you've gotta change it up, right?
And I totally honey this pineapple together with pecan variation.
This version has such a nice, refreshing season amongst the sweetness of all the pineapple inward it accompanied past times the wonderful mash of pecans. But it's not too sweet, you lot know what I mean? The pineapple tidbits select a lightness to the chicken salad ... without existence overpoweringly sweet. It's 1 chicken salad that but begs to live eaten inward the oestrus of summer.
But believe me, spell it may live but perfect for summertime eating, the wonderful flavors of Pineapple-Pecan Chicken Salad are fabulous to bask any time!
Yield: about five cups
Pineapple-Pecan Chicken Salad
Refreshingly tasty Pineapple-Pecan Chicken Salad may but live the perfect chicken salad for summertime time. Or whatever time, for that matter!
prep time: twenty Mcook time: total time: twenty M
ingredients:
- 3 c. chopped cooked chicken breasts
- 1 c. finely chopped celery
- 2 light-green onions, sliced (about iii T.)
- 2 T. finely chopped light-green pepper
- 1 tsp. salt
- dash of dark pepper
- 1/2 c. mayonnaise
- 1/2 c. chopped pecans
- 1 (20 oz.) tin pineapple tidbits, drained
- 2 T. lemon juice
instructions:
How to gear upward Pineapple-Pecan Chicken Salad
- Combine chicken, celery, light-green onion, light-green pepper, salt, dark pepper, together with mayonnaise inward a bowl; mix well.
- Stir inward pecans, pineapple, together with lemon juice.
- Chill for virtually thirty minutes earlier serving to allow flavors to meld.
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