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Roasted Chicken Salad Recipe – Meal 2 from 3 Meals 1 Whole Chicken

October 16, 2012 Amy 10 Comments

I know you saved every piece of that chicken you made from the post healthy slow cooker recipes – 3 meals 1 chicken didn’t you? Today I am going to share my husband’s amazing roasted chicken salad recipe. Seriously, this roasted chicken salad is so awesome and so simple. Take the leftover chicken from the healthy slow cooker recipes post and get all the meat off the bones. Now you are ready for meal number 2. Do not throw away those bones or leftover juice, you are going to need them for next weeks post! 

Roasted Chicken Salad

Amazing Chicken Salad

Ingredients for Roasted Chicken Salad:

1 leftovers from Healthy Slow Cooker Recipes – chicken in a pot (whatever is left chop it up!)

1 stalk celery finely chopped

1/4 cup cranberries (or raisins, or any fruit)

1-2 hard boiled egg(s)

2-3 tablespoons mayo (how to make homemade mayo)

1/4 cup nuts (sunflower or pumpkin seeds for nut free homes like ours)

Amazing Roasted Chicken Salad

 

Directions on how to make Roasted Chicken Salad:

1. Remove all the roasted chicken leftover from the chicken in the pot post before. Chop the chicken to make sure it is in bite size pieces.

2. The real secret to this awesome recipe is to chop all the ingredients small. Finely chop the celery, cranberries and egg and throw them into the bowl. If you don’t have a lot of extra chicken left add 2 eggs.

3. Add nuts or sunflower seeds. (pecans are the best in this chicken salad)

4. Add 2-3 tablespoons mayo until the chicken salad is just coated. This is for a dry salad, if you want more mayo, add it. (trying to keep it healthy!)

This roasted chicken salad is awesome on toasted whole wheat, whole grain bread or Whole Wheat crackers. The best part about this roasted chicken salad recipe is this is very flexible. More can be made simply by adding a little more nuts, eggs or fruit to make it stretch into a meal. Little face just loves chicken salad. The other two are not real crazy about it, but if they were starving they might eat it. Little Miss will eat just about anything if it has bread with it or if I call it a snack. There is enough to feed all five of us for lunch the next day. 

If roasted chicken salad is not your thing you can try these delicious recipes:

Homemade Chicken Enchiladas

Easy Chicken in Biscuits – Use the leftover roasted veggies too!

Tequila Lime Chicken

Biscuit Empanadas – Use Chicken instead of Beef

Add an onion and a bell pepper sauteed to help stretch the chicken a little further by adding lots of flavor and secret veggies. The kids won’t even know. Stay tuned for the final installment next week how to get one more meal out of this roasted chicken – slow cooker chicken stock. Hopefully you saved all the juice and bones for the last part of this post to make the next recipe. 

5 Dollar Meals, Clean Eating, Homemade Recipes, Main Course chicken, cranberry, nut free

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Comments

  1. Krista@EverydayMom'sMeals says

    October 21, 2012 at 9:40 am

    I always make chicken salad with roast chicken too! I think it gives it such flavor. I love eggs, and have never thought to add them! Thanks for sharing at Church Supper. Love seeing new faces. Have a blessed week and come back soon~

    Reply
    • Amy says

      October 22, 2012 at 1:44 pm

      Thanks Krista. I always look for ways to add extra protein and make meals stretch to feed us all.

      Reply
  2. Margaux says

    October 25, 2012 at 11:14 pm

    This is such a great concept to share how you stretch your budget AND your meal planning. Thanks for linking at Snacktime Saturday.

    Reply
  3. Elise says

    October 30, 2012 at 2:56 pm

    Thanks for posting this great recipe! Would love it if you linked up on my blog hop http://www.w-t-fab.com/search/label/bloghop. Also let me know if you’d like to follow each other!

    Reply

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