This recipe is great for picnics and potluck luncheons.  It's cool, light, and great for a hot day's lunch on the patio.  Serve on crescent rolls, with crackers, or your favorite bread.

Gourmet Chicken Salad

chicken

green grapes, halved

almonds

celery

(8 ounce) can mandarin oranges, drained

creamy cucumber salad dressing

Mix together chicken, grapes, nuts, celery, oranges, and dressing.  Chill.


I used three chicken breasts that I broiled instead of canned chicken.  I also decided on the black grapes (they looked red but were labeled as black) because of their flavor.  I opted to use about 1/3 cup of mayo instead of the cucumber dressing simply because I had it on hand.
Served on croissants, it was exactly what I anticipated, a light and fruity chicken salad.  Yum.
Thanks for a simple and delicious recipe.  It's now one of my favorites and will be keeper.


Nice twist on chicken salad, however if I were going to go so far as to call it "gourmet" I wouldn't used canned chicken... I opted to use some leftover citrus grilled chicken I had on hand. I also used some red grapes for a little color. I didn't have cucumber salad dressing so I used Hellman's light mayo cut with a bit of sour cream and added a bit of salt, pepper and just a bit of curry powder. Overall, very good on toasted whole grain bread.

I used red grapes instead of green, used Miracle Whip for the dressing, and chose walnuts over almonds. This recipes was awesome. The flavors go great together. Definitely a keeper!

The best chicken salad I've ever had. Made my own cucumber dressing with half a finely chopped cucumber, a cup of plain yogurt, a garlic clove, a teaspoon of lemon juice, a pinch of salt, and about a half a teaspoon of pepper. Blended it all together, and it was phenomenal!

I increased the recipe to nine servings from six. I left out the oranges and I used a total of two cups of grapes. I also used red grapes and not green. I only had about a half cup of celery and I threw in a cup of almonds. I actually thought that there were too many almonds so I'll decrease them next time. There was also a salty taste and I don't know if that came from the nuts or from using canned chicken. I've never used it before. I was trying to duplicate a recipe that I lost several years ago and this was close. My kids and husband loved it. I was disappointed but maybe just because I was expecting my "old" recipe. We'll try it again though!

I love it! It is my favorite. I use red grapes to add more color. Something I will make again.

I liked this recipe, but made a few changes that worked really well.  I added cucumbers and crasins.  Instead of plain almond, I used ranch flavored salad topper alamonds and mayo instead of the cucumber dressing.  Very tasty!

This is good & easy.  Used regular cucumber ranch (the lite was too salty)because I couldn't find just cucumber dressing. You should definitely toast the almonds -they are much better that way. Also red grapes are good in it, that's what I had.-Susie

I loved this recipe but my picky 10 year old son did not. My 3 year old liked it pretty well though. I will save this for parties at work or lunch with girlfriends and serve hot dogs to the kids.;-)

This was a really great recipe although the chicken from the can was a little salty. Next time I am going to use fresh chicken.

gourmet chicken salad

Servings: 6

Cost: $3.49 /serving

Author : Jan Kinnard

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