Healthy Chicken Salad Recipe - Lose Weight By Eating (2023)

This healthy chicken salad recipe uses two “secret ingredients” to drastically cut calories and increase flavor!

This is the best chicken salad recipe if you are looking for a healthy version that’s as good, if not better, than the traditional mayo filled, high calorie, high saturated fat chicken salad recipe.

Now, don’t fret… it will taste just like the mayo filled unhealthy traditional chicken salad recipe for sandwiches. But will less fat, fewer calories, and more protein.

I make my chicken salad recipe easy with precooked chicken (yes the rotisserie chicken from the store is great here). So next time you have leftover chicken, shred it and make this healthy chicken salad recipe.

Love the flavor of the mayo filled traditional chicken salad, but hate all the calories and fat?

This recipe will taste just like traditional chicken salad recipes, but with less calories, less fat, more protein and flavor!

Healthy Chicken Salad Recipe

Usually you add 1/2 cup of mayonnaise to make a chicken salad recipe traditional… that is nearly 50 grams of fat, just for the mayo!

That breaks my heart to type, and I can imagine it shocks you just as it shocks me. But here at Lose Weight By Eating our goal is to make the unhealthy recipes, healthy. Without sacrificing flavor or texture, and without costing more money.

In this article for healthy chicken salad sandwich recipes I have cut calories and drastically cut fat with my healthy ingredient swaps… my healthy secret ingredients if you will.

Here’s what you’ll find in this article:

• Easy Chicken Salad Recipe Ingredients
• How to Make Chicken Salad
• Chicken Salad Sandwich Recipe
• Healthy Chicken Salad Recipe (printable recipe card!)
• More Ways to Serve Chicken Salad Recipes

In the next section we will discuss chicken salad ingredients, including the chicken for salad recipe so you can save money and time.

You’ll learn how to make a healthy chicken salad recipe, including a healthier way to make a sandwich chicken salad without blowing your diet!

Easy Chicken Salad Recipe Ingredients

Chicken salad recipes for sandwiches vary in ingredients and flavors. In this article we are working on a chicken salad recipe traditional style… but you can find a cranberry pecan chicken salad recipe in my first cookbook Lose Weight By Eating, and a curry chicken salad recipe in my fourth cookbook Lose Weight By Eating Easy Dinners.

This easy chicken salad recipe has two “secret ingredients” one will drastically cut fat and calories, and another will boost flavor making it the best chicken salad recipe you have ever tasted!

Healthy Chicken Salad Recipe Ingredients:

• Shredded chicken (leftover chicken and canned will save you money)
• Greek Yogurt *
• Dijon mustard
• Celery
• Green onion
• Dill
• Celery salt* (or regular salt)
• Pepper

My secret ingredients in my recipe for chicken salad sandwiches are marked above… Greek Yogurt and Celery Salt. Both make this the best chicken salad recipe you have ever tasted!

Now that you have the ingredient list for my homemade chicken salad recipe, we can get on to the chicken salad how to make section.

Make the best chicken salad recipe sandwich, and save fat and calories with my healthy ingredient swap.

How to Make Chicken Salad

I like this chicken salad recipe best at lunch time… it travels well and is a great use for leftover chicken from the night before.

Healthy chicken salad recipes are easy to make. In this section I will show you how to make lunch in under 10 minutes.

How to Make a Chicken Salad Recipe:

1. Add all of the chicken salad recipe ingredients to a large bowl.
2. Use the back of a spoon or a fork to mix and smash the ingredients together well.
3. Serve you chicken salad recipe as a chicken salad sandwich, chicken salad over greens, or chicken salad on crackers… more below!

The most traditional way to eat chicken salad recipes is in a sandwich… so we will outline that recipe next before getting to the printable recipe card.

If you’re looking for a sandwich chicken salad recipe… that’s up next!

Chicken Salad Sandwich Recipe

The best chicken salad recipe can be made in a flash, and can travel well.

In this section I will show you how to make a chicken salad sandwich that is healthy, and that won’t get soggy if traveling with this chicken salad chic recipe.

Healthy Recipe Chicken Salad Sandwich Ingredients:

• 2 slices whole grain bread
• 1/3 cup Healthy Chicken Salad Recipe (below)
• 2 Romaine lettuce leaves, halved
• 2-3 tomato slices

Optional Chicken Salad Sandwich Ingredients:

• 1 slice sharp cheddar cheese
• 1/4 avocado, sliced

Making chicken salad recipes sandwich style is extremely easy, next I will show you my method for optimal flavor with the least bit of sogginess.

Healthy Recipe for Chicken Salad Sandwiches Directions:

1. Toast the bread, and lay on a clean dry surface to cool.
2. Once cooled, layer ingredients (follow exactly if traveling with sandwich to avoid sogginess).
3. Place 2 slices of lettuce on one piece of toasted bread. Add the tomatoes, then the chicken salad. If you are adding avocado or cheese add those, ending with the cheese.
4. If you are still worried about sogginess, you can add the remaining 2 slices of lettuce before the final piece of bread.

More tips to Avoid Soggy Sandwiches:

1. After you slice the tomatoes, spread out on a paper towel, place another paper towel over the top and allow them to drain for 10 minutes.
2. Wash and dry your lettuce the day before, this will allow it to dry more.
3. Toast your bread! If you do accidentally get some moisture through, it will hold up longer.

Now that I’ve shared all my tips and tricks for the best chicken salad sandwiches, I will share the delicious healthy chicken salad recipe. You can pin, share, even print this recipe card for easy referencing later.

If you’re looking to cut carbs, later in the article I will show you 10 ways to serve this healthy chicken salad recipe that cut the carbs by half… or more!

Healthy Chicken Salad Recipe

Making chicken salad for sandwiches doesn’t have to be unhealthy! I cut ALL of the mayo from the traditional chicken salad recipes and replaced it with metabolism boosting Greek Yogurt! (1)

All recipes for chicken salad sandwich can be made with my greek yogurt healthy hack! Use it in your favorite recipes and save calories and fat while increasing your metabolism.

More Ways to Serve Chicken Salad

You can cut the carbs on chicken salad for sandwich recipes by serving it differently.

In this section I will outline 10 more ways to enjoy chicken salad recipes without all the bread of a traditional chicken salad sandwich.

10 Ways to Serve Healthy Chicken Salad Recipes:

1. Serve it open faced, and eliminate one slice of bread.
2. Scoop over mixed greens for a chicken with salad recipe.
3. Eat it as a dip with a mix of sliced cucumbers and crackers.
4. Really cut the carbs and serve with cucumber slices and carrots.
5. Use a spinach tortilla to make a chicken salad lunch wrap.
6. Vertically halve and clean a red bell pepper, roast until soft and cool before filling with chicken salad.
7. Use large butter lettuce leaves to make a chicken salad lunch wrap.
8. Use the smaller butter lettuce leaves to fill lettuce cups with chicken salad.
9. Dip your favorite veggie chips in the chicken salad as a snack.
10. Slice an apple into rounds (remove seeds) top with chicken salad.

This healthy chicken salad recipe does not have to be served between two pieces of bread. It’s versatile and can be enjoyed many different ways.

You don’t have to use chicken salad recipes to make sandwiches! You can use this protein packed recipe to make 10 low carb versions of a chicken salad sandwich.

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