welcome to Amy learns to cook on the
show today we're going to make my easy
chicken salad
now this chicken salad is very delicious
and can be used for chicken salad
sandwiches eat with crackers or with in
a lettuce cup so join me as we make my
easy chicken salad
you
okay our first step is we're going to
cook our chicken and you could use a
rotisserie chicken from your local club
store but this is so easy to do and it
makes such a delicious chicken salad
that I go ahead and cook the chicken
myself so pretty much we have our crock
pot here and we're going to put in four
cups of chicken broth and I make this
from a chicken base called better than
bullion and you basically just dissolve
it in a little bit of warm water and it
really tastes great
so we are going to put in our chicken
and we're going to put on our trusty
gloves here so I avoid the chicken II
hands right and what I have is I have
five boneless skinless chicken breasts
so that I've washed and trimmed of any
excess fat or gristle on the chicken and
we're just going to go ahead and put
this into our crock pot
okay we're going to go ahead and cook
this chicken on low for eight hours
and trust me when I say just let it sit
on low this is a set it forget it recipe
and we're going to let this cook for
eight hours on low and it is going to be
moist and juicy for our chicken salad
okay so now that the chicken is out of
the slow cooker it was in there for
about eight hours basically I put it in
a bowl and I just took a fork and sort
of chopped it or pulled it and basically
I put in two tablespoons of the cooking
liquid just to keep it a little moist
and I put it in the refrigerator and you
want to cool this all the way down
because we're going to be putting
mayonnaise in this and you don't want to
put mayonnaise in it with it hot so we
cooled it all the way down in the
refrigerator and now we're ready to
finish this off so what we're going to
do first is we're going to take one this
is kind of a small to medium sized onion
and we're just going to go ahead and
dice this onion I'm just going to get
the skins off cut the ends off and we're
just going to go kind of give it a small
dice you don't want it too big because
you don't want a big huge hunk of onion
when you're eating your chicken salad
right
so we're going to go ahead and chop that
and just put it right into our bowl with
our chicken salad we're going to go
ahead and do the other side we're going
to cut up some celery this thing we're
do is we're going to chop some salary
and I have three ribs of celery you can
use two to three ribs I happen to like a
lot of celery and I've already chopped
the ends off and washed this so I'm just
going to split it down the middle and
then chop in kind of small pieces you
don't want it too big because you're
going to end up with the big hunks all
right so we're going to go ahead and
chop that we're going to throw it in our
Bowl okay so you can flavor this with
any kind of herbs that you want you can
use anything really I'm going to use a
little chopped tarragon um I just like
the flavor of it you can experiment in
put anything you want
um this kind of has a strong flavor me
so we're just going to put a little bit
of this in right and I want to chop it
really well we're going to go ahead put
that in our chicken salad and now it's
time to put in the mayonnaise okay so
we're going to use some mayonnaise and
how much you use depends on how you like
it right I would say start off with
about a cup of mayonnaise and stir it in
and if you want more add a little more
right we have a lot of chicken here so
I'm
so we're gonna have to add more than
that this chicken sounds gonna feed a
crowd so can good now you can add all
kinds of stuff to this chicken salad
this is just a basic recipe if you want
to make this tropical you could add some
pineapple if you wanted add some
sweetness too you can put grapes you can
pretty much do anything you want this is
just a really basic chicken salad that
you want to put together quickly maybe
for lunches during the week what if
you're having a quick party okay so
we're going to put a little salt and
pepper put some freshly ground pepper
and you don't want to put a lot of salt
because the mayonnaise has got a lot of
salt so you might not need too much or
if any let's give it a quick taste so we
can adjust for Suzie little pepper
tiny bit more salt and it looks really
good so now let's plate it up okay so
we're going to plate it up I got some
leaf lettuce and this has been washed
and shaken free of the water right I'm
just going to put it around the plate
give us a little fancy presentation
okay and then I'm just going to take our
chicken salad an ice cream scoop and I'm
going to serve it up
and I'm going to put a few little
crackers around here for our guests to
have some crackers with the chicken
salad
make sure we have a nice round ball in
the middle hmm now we're ready to take a
taste okay so I just put some crackers
with it because I'm going to eat it
right now if you're serving this to gas
you definitely want to have your
crackers on the side otherwise they
would get soggy write a note about food
safety because this is chicken and
mayonnaise you want to make sure you
keep this cold so if you're serving it
to your gas make sure you take you don't
put it out on your serving buffet or
table until just before you're going to
serve it it also might help to keep it
in a container that has ice underneath
it to keep it cold but I'm going to eat
this right now so here goes nothing mmm
it's so good Wow
I mean you can put a lot of things in
this chicken salad to jazz it up but if
you're just looking for a really basic
quick easy chicken salad this is it
cooking the chicken for all those hours
in the crock pot just makes it really
really good mmm
I've served this on a several I served
it on regular bread with crackers it is
really really good if you liked this
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Join Amy as she makes her Easy Chicken Salad. This chicken salad is made from boneless, skinless chicken breast that is cooked in the Crockpot or slow cooker. It has onion, celery and can be seasoned a number of different ways. I used tarragon in this chicken salad. You can also add grapes, pineapple, olives, or anything else that you like. This is a great chicken salad to use as a Chicken Salad Sandwich or to eat with crackers or in a lettuce cup. Enjoy! Please share! Please SUBSCRIBE to my channel, LIKE, and leave a COMMENT. Please visit my website: www.amylearnstocook.com