Cranberry Pecan Chicken Salad with Poppy Seed Dressing – this is really one of the best chicken salads you’ll ever taste! The homemade, easy-to-make poppy seed dressing makes this salad quite special. Give yourself and your family a treat – scroll down to the recipe and make this salad!
Not only is this salad great with chicken, it will also work great with leftover turkey meat, since Thanksgiving is coming up! The salad has only 4 simple ingredients: cooked chicken, dried cranberries, chopped pecans, and chopped green onions.
MY OTHER VIDEOSWhat makes this salad really special is the homemade dressing, made with mayo, sour cream, a touch of Dijon mustard, honey, and poppy seeds! It’s delicious!
Cranberry Pecan Chicken Salad with Poppy Seed Dressing
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup mayonnaise
- 1/4 cup sour cream
- 2 tablespoon honey, softened
- 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
- 1 tablespoon poppy seeds
- salt, to taste
- 4 cups cooked, chopped chicken breast (about 2 chicken breasts)
- 1 cup chopped pecans
- 1/2 cup dried cranberries
- 4 green onions, chopped
Dressing
Salad
Instructions
- In a medium bowl, combine all dressing ingredients. Whisk until well combined. Add salt, to taste.
- In a large bowl, combine all salad ingredients. Add salad dressing and toss to coat. Add salt, to taste.
I don’t eat mayo, could you substitute anything for mayo?
Sour cream or Greek yogurt. Maybe add a little bit of freshly squeezed lemon juice.
This is a wonderful salad. Like others, I added celery. I also toasted the pecans. Loved the dressing!
Great additions! Thank you for stopping by and leaving your comment! 🙂
Pretty and delicious! It was great on top of a halved avocado and amazing on a croissant! I put a bit of chopped celery in it for extra crunch.
I am glad you liked it! Great idea to serve it with avocado and/or croissant! 🙂
This is one fantastic salad. Love it.
Made this for a party. Served on Wassa crackers and leftover on multigrain toast. Excellent!
Thank you, I am so glad you liked it!