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Chicken salad has to be one of the most perfect dishes for an easy meal at home or to take to a picnic or potluck.
While there are so many ways in which you can make your chicken salad, here are 15 chicken salad recipes that you and your whole family will love!
15 Delicious Chicken Salad Recipes You Will Love
1. Easy Chicken Greek Salad Wrap Sandwich
This recipe allows you to make delicious wrap sandwiches.
You can use leftover chicken, a rotisserie chicken, canned chicken, or even precooked shrimp just to switch up flavors.
You can eat the yummy salad on its own and not as a sandwich. Otherwise, you can wrap it up in a tortilla or your favorite flat bread.
Recipe: Easy Chicken Greek Salad Wrap Sandwich
2. Buffalo Chicken Pasta Salad
This recipe makes use of an easy buffalo vinaigrette type dressing (no mayo or heavy dressings), chicken, veggies, and blue cheese.
The salad has a light taste and would make a great side dish or main dish. You can choose to serve it hot or cold and still enjoy it.
Recipe: Buffalo Chicken Pasta Salad
3. Chicken Pasta Salad
This simple and delicious chicken pasta salad makes a quick and easy meal or side dish using leftover chicken.
You can bring this meal to picnics and potlucks.
Recipe: Chicken Pasta Salad
4. Rotisserie Chicken Taco Salad Meal
This chicken taco salad meal includes the easy pico de gallo salsa, a creamy green sauce, and a copycat taco bell quesadilla sauce.
Together, the three make the dish a fast-prep meal, healthy and absolutely yummy!
Recipe: Rotisserie Chicken Taco Salad Meal
5. Keto Chicken Salad
If you’re on a keto diet, you’ll absolutely enjoy this low carb chicken salad that makes use of your leftover chicken, refreshing bell peppers, crunchy pecans, and creamy mayonnaise.
You can serve it alone as a delicious chicken salad for lunch or dinner, or with lettuce as a lettuce wrap.
Recipe: Easy Low Carb Chicken Salad
6. Mediterranean Salad with Chicken
This Mediterranean salad on the Rising Spoon made with leafy greens, salty feta cheese, protein-packed chickpeas, briny olives, fresh chopped veggies, and shredded rotisserie chicken, then topped with a tangy red wine vinaigrette.
Fix this for a quick lunch or dinner in about 15 minutes or prep it ahead of time for a simple & healthy meal.
Remember:
Serve the salad with a bit of healthy fat like olive oil so that your body can absorb them properly. Don’t skip the dressing if you can help it!
Recipe: Mediterranean Salad with Chicken
7. Chicken Bacon Ranch Salad
Chicken, bacon, and ranch is an epic flavor combination.
So, up to you salad game by preparing this recipe that includes chicken, bacon, tomatoes, cucumber, onion, and avocado piled onto leafy green lettuce and topped with ranch dressing.
Recipe: Chicken Bacon Ranch Salad
8. Santa Fe Chicken Salad with Tangy Lime Dressing
This fresh, hearty salad starts with a bed of crisp lettuce and is topped with grilled chicken, black beans, corn, tomatoes, green onion, avocado and crunchy tortilla strips tossed with a zesty lime dressing!
Yum!
Recipe: Santa Fe Chicken Salad with Tangy Lime Dressing
9. California Grilled Chicken Avocado Salad
Now, this has to a perfect salad to start off summer!
This delicious grilled chicken avocado salad is full of flavors of creamy avocado, cilantro, and lime.
The flavors of lime and cilantro give this salad a tasty kick that I know you’ll love!
Recipe: California Grilled Chicken Avocado Salad
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10. Chinese Chicken Salad with an Asian Sesame dressing
Crunchy fresh vegetables, crispy fried noodles and an Asian sesame dressing make this delicious chicken salad that is an absolute summer staple.
Delicious!
Recipe: Chinese Chicken Salad with an Asian Sesame dressing
11. Cajun Grilled Chicken Salad With Remoulade Sauce Dressing
This jam-packed salad includes sliced Cajun grilled chicken remoulade breasts, the caramelized Cajun trinity, corn, cold Romaine heart leaves, tomatoes and remoulade sauce dressing to make a perfect salad!
Recipe: Cajun Grilled Chicken Salad With Remoulade Sauce Dressing
12. Chicken Pasta Salad With Lemon Dressing
Pasta always sounds like summer! Hence, this is an amazing salad to enjoy all summer long!
Grilled Chicken, your favorite pasta, fresh crunchy vegetables, and tangy lemon herb dressing fill this salad.
This Pasta salad is so good now that it has grilled chicken.
Recipe: Chicken Pasta Salad With Lemon Dressing
13. Chicken Salad Sandwich
This springtime dish with a chickeny aroma has a hidden slap of the tangy mayo base, natural fruity sweetness and spicy veggie mixture to make it inevitably appetizing.
Recipe: Chicken Salad Sandwich
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14. Paleo Best Ever Slow Cooked Chicken Salad
Forget about your normal plain salad and embrace this delicious slow-cooked flavored chicken salad with fresh avocados, fresh tomatoes and some lettuce leaves that have been covered in a homemade dressing.
Yummy!
Recipe: Paleo Best Ever Slow Cooked Chicken Salad
15. Chicken Salad with Grapes
Chicken salad with grapes makes a delicious salad because the generous amount of chicken is combined with fruit and roasted pecans for a savory crunch and flavor that’s a hit every time!
Recipe: Chicken Salad with Grapes
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Do you also enjoy chicken salad? If yes, which of the chicken salad recipes are you willing to try first?
Please share your thoughts with us below…
Hugs!
Dalene.
Disclaimer: This is a collaborative post featuring all the food bloggers who shared their chicken salad recipes.
These all sound amazing, we eat a lot of chicken but sometimes it gets boring and I look around for new ideas, will definitely be trying some of these out
Way to go Samantha; what’s even more amazing is that you can easily make chicken salad with leftover chicken. No more wastes!
I honestly had no idea there were so many ways to do chicken salad! I love chicken salad and love that there are so many options!
More chicken salad recipes at your disposal.
Enjoy!
Wow! I had no idea that there would be so many so different chicken salad recipes. Thank you for this beautiful and comprehensive list. Photos always make it easier to choose. I think I might go for the Asian salad with all the vegetables first. Looks refreshing.
There are so many chicken salad recipes for sure; I’m glad you picked one for a start. Do enjoy!
OMG! This post really made me hungry. Thank you for sharing the recipe. Good thing I have most of the ingredients available for the Chicken Pasta Salad. Can’t wait to try it tomorrow. 🙂
Enjoy Clarice!
Cesar chicken salad is one of my favorites, but I am also crazy about combinations with avocado or bacon. This has been such a delicious read and also very inspirational.
Thanks, Elena; you should consider making some of the chicken salad recipes you love, right?
Who can say no to a yummy chicken salad, certainly not me? I enjoy all of them and I will save this post. Tomorrow, I will make the one with the grapes
Yummy! Who can say no for sure?!
These look delicious! Bookmarking this page to come back to you in the future. Definitely going to try a few of these. Thank you for sharing!
You’re welcome Frank; do enjoy!
Wow all the recipes looks amazing. I love chicken and I will definitely try few of these recipes sometime. Thanks for sharing.
You’re welcome Khushboo!
The Chinese Chicken Salad with Asian Sesame Dressing is the first recipe I will try. It looks so colorful and delicious. The Asian Sesame dressing really sounds perfect to compliment the ingredients in this salad.
Oh yummy Kristine…I also appreciate when I have salads with the dressing too. Delish!