This chickens 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.
- 1 pound boiled chicken, cut into ½-inch cubes
- 1 cup chopped celery
- 1 cup red grapes, halved
- ½ cup dried cherries
- ½ cup roasted pecans, chopped
- 1 cup mayonnaise
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon ground black pepper
- celery leaves, chopped (optional)
- 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.
Robyn xo
From the Add a Pinch recipe archives. Originally published 2013.
A really great chicken salad that I will be using all summer! I followed the recipe except that I sheet pan roasted the chicken breast with some pork and poultry seasoning we get up in Michigan. The resulting salad was delicious but I then added a hefty squeeze of fresh lemon juice which took it over the top in my book! I imagine it would be slightly similar to using the Greek yogurt….a bit more tang for all the mayo. Thanks! A great recipe!
I’m so glad you enjoyed it, Carol! xo
I made this with leftover rotisserie chicken. Instead of grapes, I had fresh cherries to use up, so I seeded and halved them. Also added the kernels from one ear of fresh summer corn!
Sounds delicious! It’s great with rotisserie chicken – and with cherries. I love the idea of the fresh corn…sounds tasty! Thanks so much, Becky! Glad you enjoy the chicken salad! xo
My chicken salad recipe calls for green grapes, and their sweet-tartness really wake up the chicken! Add lots of chopped celery (1/4″ bits) and slivered almonds, and you have a meal fit for a queen. (The king wants steak!)
With red grapes, I would give this recipe 4 stars, but with a change to green grapes, PERFECTION!
Hi –
Chicken salad is such a favorite dish – yours sounds delicious as well!
We all definitely have our favorites and varying tastes, don’t we?! I’m sure green grapes are very tasty as well! We like red grapes in this particular chicken salad recipe, but you can definitely use either one you prefer!
Thanks so much!
I used can chicken mmmm