Cranberry Pecan Chicken Salad with Poppy Seed Dressing – great side dish or lunch or light dinner. Makes a wonderful recipe for the holiday season too, for Thanksgiving or Christmas.
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.
What 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 - great side dish or lunch or light dinner. Makes a wonderful recipe for the holiday season too, for Thanksgiving or Christmas.
- 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 chicken breast , cooked, chopped (about 2 chicken breasts)
- 1 cup pecans , chopped
- 1/2 cup dried cranberries
- 4 green onions , chopped
- 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.
Loved this on my initial making of the recipe. The second time I added celery and increased the cranberries to 1 cup and juice of 1/2 lemon. The original was not lacking anything. It was great. I can’t ever leave anything alone without adding to it. Don’t know why.
So glad you enjoyed this recipe! Adding celery and increasing the amount of cranberries sounds delicious!
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.
I used the Greek yogurt with a bit of lemon juice along with the sour cream and a small amount of Mayo. I used sesame, chia, flax and kemp seeds. Dressing was super. Love this salad…. so easy and yummy….Making for a party of 8 tomorrow… serving with baguette bread.
What a great idea to use seeds in the salad dressing! Love it! Serving with baguette bread sounds so delicious!
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!