Extraordinary Chicken Salad

I'm sure the tried and true chicken salad recipe has an infinite amount of variations. I developed a recipe that I really like based on the basic recipe and a little curry with a twist.

Read on...


Many chicken salad recipes use chicken breast meat. I used chicken dark meat and roasted the meat on the BBQ until crusty and brown.

Ingredients:

1. Chicken dark meat.
2. Teaspoon Curry powder.
3. Salt to taste
4. Pepper to taste
5. Two small zucchini, diced finely
6. One medium sweet onion.
7. 2 tablespoons Dijion mustard
8. 1/2 cup mayo

Directions:

1. Roste chicken dark meat on the BBQ until tender with a light crust.. Shred with a fork to remove bones and connective tissue.
2. Combine ingredients in a bowl. If you like curry add a little more.
3. Refrigerate to let the flavors blend for 1 hour before serving.

I took some of this to work for lunch today and it was amazing,

Note I used zucchini for the crunchy vegetable instead of celery. That was a great substitution.

The dark meat holds up well under grilling temperatures.

I shaved pears thinly and served that as a pear salad on top of the sandwiches.

Yum!