High Protein Chicken Salad

Name: High Protein Chicken Salad
Prep time: 10 min
Total time: 70 min
Yield: 6
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 2 lb Chicken Breast (2 pounds boneless skinless chicken breasts (fully cooked, shredded or chopped into bite-sized pieces - approximately 4 cups)); ½ cup Red Grape (½ cup red grapes (halved)); ½ cup Celery (½ cup celery (diced)); 1 ¼ cup Granny Smith Apple (1 ¼ cups green apple (diced - 1 medium apple, optional)) — optional; ⅓ cup Scallion (⅓ cup green onion (chopped)); ½ cup Pecans (½ cup pecans (chopped - toasted or raw, see Notes)); ¾ cup Greek Yogurt (¾ cup Greek yogurt (up to 1 cup if desired½ teaspoon salt - more or less to taste)); ½ tsp Black Pepper (½ teaspoon freshly cracked black pepper (more or less to taste))

High Protein Chicken Salad - Main Course,Salad (American)

70 minAmerican

Servings6

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Steps

1Measure ingredients
2Add 2 pounds boneless, skinless chicken breasts (fully cooked, shredded or chopped into bite-sized pieces, approximately 4 cups), ½ cup halved red grapes, ½ cup diced celery, 1 ¼ cups diced green apple, ⅓ cup chopped green onion, and ½ cup chopped pecans to large mixing bowl.
3Combine ingredients
4Stir ingredients together until well blended. Set aside.
5Add yogurt and seasoning
6Add ¾ cup Greek yogurt, ½ teaspoon salt, and ½ teaspoon freshly cracked black pepper to small mixing bowl. Stir ingredients together until fully combined.
7Combine salad
8Transfer Greek yogurt mixture to large mixing bowl with chicken and vegetables. Gently fold chicken salad ingredients into yogurt mixture until all ingredients are mixed and well coated.
9Chill
10Cover mixing bowl with lid or plastic wrap. Place bowl in refrigerator and chill salad at least 1 hour. Immediately prior to serving, remove salad from refrigerator and uncover. Gently stir salad again if needed and serve chilled.