Curry Chicken Salad With Grapes

I love me a good chicken salad sandwich. And I loveeeee curry. This Curry Chicken Salad with Grapes combines both of these loves perfectly. And like most chicken salad recipes, it’s easy to throw together (yay!). You will need a rotisserie chicken, grapes, pecans, curry powder and the usual chicken salad suspects: onion, celery, mayo and salt + pepper. Let’s make it!

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• Rotisserie chicken – or you can cook chicken at home if you want to
• Celery
• Onion
• Vinegar
• Curry powder
• Salt and pepper
• Sugar
• Red grapes
• Pecan pieces – raw and unsalted
• Mayonnaise
• Parsley

If you are going with my recommendation of using a rotisserie chicken, get this part out of the way first! Get all the meat you can off the rotisserie chicken and place it in a bowl in the fridge so it can cool. I find I get about 4 cups of chicken from one rotisserie chicken. If making your own chicken, just season it lightly with a little salt and pepper.

This is a little step I like to take when I make chicken salad. I dice onion and celery and add it to the bowl I want to keep the chicken salad in, then add a little vinegar, salt and sugar. This helps reduce the onions pungency a tad and makes raw onions more pleasant to eat.

Slice the red grapes in half, then toast the pecans. To toast the pecans, just add them to a non-stick skillet over medium-low heat and stir continuously. Do this for about 5 minutes, until you start to smell the nuts.

Add the chicken to the bowl with the celery and onion. Add the remaining ingredients: grapes, pecans, mayo, curry powder, pepper and parsley. Stir thoroughly and enjoy on your favorite bread or in a pita!

While you can freeze most things to thaw and enjoy later, chicken salad with grapes is not the ideal thing to do this with. When grapes are frozen and thawed they become mushy. If you really are wanting to freeze this chicken salad, you could make it without the grapes and freeze. Then thaw when you’re ready to enjoy and add the grapes when ready to serve.

Chicken salad will be good when stored in the fridge for 3-4 days. Make sure it’s refrigerated right after it’s done and never sits out too long.

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