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Chicken Salad with Roasted Garlic Dressing

Course Main Course
Prep Time 10 minutes
Total Time 10 minutes
Servings 4

Ingredients

  • 3 cups cooked chicken cut into 1/2 inch cubes
  • 1.5 cups red seedless grapes halved
  • 1 cup walnuts toasted and roughly chopped
  • 4 stalks celery minced
  • 1 small red onion minced

Roasted Garlic Dressing

  • 1/2 cup mayonnaise avocado, olive or macadamia oil, please!
  • 1/2 head 10 or so cloves roasted garlic, mashed
  • 1/4 cup lemon juice
  • 1/2 teaspoon lemon zest
  • 1 teaspoon ground black pepper
  • 1/2 teaspoon sea salt use more or less depending on how salty the mayonnaise is--will depend on brand or if homemade!

Instructions

  1. In a small bowl or a food processor, combine all garlic dressing ingredients until dressing is smooth. Set aside.
  2. In a large bowl, combine the chicken, grapes, walnuts, celery and red onion.
  3. Pour roasted garlic dressing over the salad ingredients and gently mix to combine.

  4. Eat immediately over a bed of greens like fresh arugula, or allow to sit in the fridge covered overnight to let the flavors marry!

Recipe Notes

For the chicken: Roasting up a whole chicken easily provides the cooked chicken for this salad, and it's a great way to use up the meat off of any portion of the bird!

For the roasted garlic: Make it along with the roasted chicken above, or by itself!

For the mayonnaise: Learn how to make your own at home--sans rancid oils!