How to Make Healthy Chicken Salad (7 Ingredients!)

July 31, 2019 • Mains • dairy-free, gluten-free, grain-free, paleo • No comments

Here’s a super simple way to make healthy chicken salad. It’s perfect to add into your meal prep for the week, and tastes great in lettuce wraps, on top of a salad, or eaten as a sandwich or wrap! This recipe is paleo-friendly, gluten-free, dairy-free and grain-free. Feel free to add additional veggies such as diced celery, or chopped bell pepper to the mixture to make it your own!

Ingredients

• 1 cup cooked, shredded chicken
• 1 small avocado
• 1/2 tsp dijon mustard
• 1 tsp Frank's red hot sauce
• 2 tbsp finely diced pickles (optional- sub red onion if you don't like pickles)
• 1/8 tsp black pepper
• 1/8 tsp garlic powder
• Romaine hearts
• Cherry tomatoes

Instructions

1. Cook chicken anyway you'd like (boil, grill, bake, stove-top). With a fork shred the chicken.
2. With a fork, mash the avocado, and then finely dice the pickles.
3. In a bowl mix the mashed avocado, shredded chicken, dijon mustard, Frank's red hot sauce, pickles, black pepper and garlic powder.
4. Serve the chicken salad in romaine heart leaves (or bread, wrap, over a salad), and top with cherry tomatoes.