Lemon Almond Chicken Salad is the absolute best chicken salad recipe! Perfect on a sandwich or just by itself, you will love this amazing recipe for chicken salad with grapes and almonds tossed in a creamy lemon dressing!





How to Make Lemon Almond Chicken Salad

Almond Chicken Salad with Creamy Lemon Dressing
This Lemon Almond Chicken Salad recipe is incredibly easy and makes the most delicious chickens salad sandwiches! You will love all the tastes and textures in this recipe!
Ingredients
- For the salad
- 2 large chicken breasts cooked and then shredded, about 2 cups (poached or rotisserie chicken both work)
- 1 cup diced celery
- 1 cup grapes halved
- 3/4 cup slivered almonds
- For the dressing
- Zest of 1 lemon
- Juice of 1 lemon
- 3 heaping tbsp. light mayo
- 3 tbsp. extra virgin olive oil
- 1 tbsp. light sour cream
- dash of salt and pepper
Instructions
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Mix together all the salad ingredients in a large bowl.
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In a separate bowl, whisk together dressing ingredients. Whisk until the mayo and sour cream are complete incorporated into the oil.
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Pour dressing mixture over the salad mixture and stir well to combine.
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Cover and chill for at least 4 hours before serving so that the flavors can meld.
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Serve at room temperature or straight out of the fridge!
I am not a fan of Chicken salad AT ALL, but I will eat this chicken salad straight up out of the bowl!!!!
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Sounds like a great salad recipe. Pinned.
Thanks Erlene!! Let me know if you try it!
Sounds good to me! Thanks for sharing the recipe. 🙂
Yummy! Looks like a simple but very tasty salad. Pinned to try. Found at pretty pintastic friday party.Have a great week.
This looks so yummy! I love chicken salad and I love your twist on it! Can you come over and cook for me?!
Hahaha yes of course Ruthie! We should have a big blogger family dinner!!
I love a good chicken salad and this looks amazing. Pinning. Cathy
Thank you for pinning Cathy!
My mom used to make this all the time and l love the combination of the grapes, celery, and almonds. We did it as a pasta salad though, and we only used mayo. I’m going to pin this to try with the added lemon! Looks delicious!
This would be so good with pasta!!
I love Chicken Salad. So simple and delicious especially in the summer.
Amanda this looks delicious! I love that you put a twist on a classic! Thank you for sharing! We’ll have to try this next time we make chicken salad!
Cat
This looks so good, my mouth was drooling just looking at the pictures. I will be pinning this to try. I love adding lemon to add an extra zing to my food, so I know I would like this too.
Thank you Jessica!
Omg mouth watering! Love this and can’t wait to try it for lunch.
It makes me so excited for lunch time…I keep sneaking bits of it out of the fridge because it is too early to justify eating lunch!
This looks delicious! I also love the dish. Thanks for sharing 🙂
This looks DIVINE! Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for stopping by!
Yum! I’m all about some good chicken salad.