Chicken Salad with Grapes Recipe
Chicken Salad with Grapes Recipe – This chicken salad recipe makes a delicious, quick meal. Made with chicken, grapes, and roasted nuts, it is always a favorite!
My husband loves chicken salad. I mean looooovvveeeessss chicken salad. From the poppy seed chicken salad that makes a regular appearance to a grilled chicken salad, he loves it all. And since I llllooooovvvveeee him, I make it for him as much as possible.
But one of his favorite versions involves fruit and tons of chicken. I’m always playing around with different versions of a chicken salad with fruit for him and realized that you might like this recipe, too.
Full of tender chicken, fresh sliced red grapes, celery, roasted pecans, and dried cherries, I’m not sure what wouldn’t be right with this chicken salad recipe.
If the fact that there was none left over was any indication, my sweet husband didn’t think there was anything wrong with it either.
This makes a great salad for lunch, a light supper, and takes hardly any time to mix all together.
And while Bart prefers his chicken salad made with mayonnaise, I love to lighten it with Greek yogurt as well. That option is completely up to you!
Here’s my recipe for Chicken Salad with Grapes that I think you’ll love.
Chicken Salad with Grapes Recipe
Chicken Salad with Grapes Recipe - This chicken salad recipe makes a delicious, quick meal. Made with chicken, grapes, and roasted nuts, it is always a favorite!
Ingredients
- 1 pound boiled chicken cut into 1/2-inch cubes
- 1 cup chopped celery
- 1 cup red grapes halved
- 1/2 cup dried cherries
- 1/2 cup roasted pecans chopped
- 1 cup mayonnaise
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
- celery leaves chopped (optional)
Directions
- Add chopped chicken to a large bowl along with celery, grapes, dried cherries, chopped pecans, mayonnaise, salt and pepper. If using chopped celery leaves, add these as well. Stir together until just combined.
Notes
Lighten Up!
To lighten up the recipe, you can use Greek yogurt in place of the mayonnaise.
All images and text © Robyn Stone for Add a Pinch
Robyn xo
From the Add a Pinch recipe archives. Originally published 2013.
How could you forget fresh Dill in this!!!
If you wish to add some you can, I use it in other chicken salads I’ve made but don’t prefer to use it in this one. Hope you enjoy it! Thanks!
Very yummy. I used a store bought rotisserie chicken. My teens love this recipe and they’re very picky. Thank you for sharing your recipe!
Thanks Rachelle! xo
Delicious! I substituted 1/2 cup of chopped apples for the dried cherries, used a little less mayo, and added a tiny squirt of honey. On toast with a little butter, yum! 😋
I love this chicken salad on toast, Nancy! So happy you enjoyed it! xo
This was delicious. I made a couple of alterations. I used a rotisserie chicken, also, substuted pistacios for the pecans and I used 1/2 plain low fat Greek yogurt and 1/2 regular Mayo.
Also, I would like to say that it does only take 5 minutes once everything is prepped. Pulling the chicken off the carcass and chopping it took longer than 5 minutes, not to mention, roasting and chopping the nuts, washing and chopping the celery, washing and halving the grapes and locating and measuring the dried cherries. In all, it took about an hour to come together.
It is a nice make ahead dish and a good thing to keep in the fridge for when you get hungry. I served mine on a croissant with lettuce. And I had fresh tomatoes on the side.
This one is a keeper.
I’m so glad you enjoyed it, Pat. It is great to make with a rotisserie chicken! Thanks!
Love the addition of the dried cherries!
I am not much of a cook, BUT, I made this up with craisins I had instead of grapes and Cherries. Used the Pecans! And my husband LOVED it! Going to be a go to on a simple dinner night, or lunch!
Thanks Dianne! xo
Absolutely delicious! Made it exactly as recipe says and I will not be deviating one bit. My sil said only thing wrong was I didn’t make enough! So getting ready to make another batch.
Great to hear that you like it Joy! My husband always says the same thing! 😉 Thanks!
I did not have any grapes which I usually have but I added diced granny smith apples and of course substituted turkey for chicken this time of year! Thanks
Thanks Jill! xo
When using rotisserie chicken, do you use the dark meat? In the past, I have only used chicken breast. Thanks.
You can if you wish, Jenny. It’s a personal preference. Thanks!
My bf ‘s comment and I quote “This is the best sandwich I have ever had. ” (I served it on croissants) Absolutely delicious!!
So glad to hear that Trish! xo