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Cranberry Pecan Chicken Salad with Poppy Seed Dressing is an easy recipe that a whole family would love! It's a great side dish or light dinner. This salad makes a wonderful meal for the holiday menu, especially Thanksgiving or Christmas.
Cranberry Pecan Chicken Salad with Poppy Seed Dressing is 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!
Great recipe for leftovers
Not only is this salad great with chicken, it will also work great with leftover turkey meat since Thanksgiving is coming up!
Ingredients for the salad
The salad has only 4 simple ingredients: cooked chicken, dried cranberries, chopped pecans, and chopped green onions.
Simple homemade dressing
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
Ingredients
Dressing
- ½ cup mayonnaise
- ¼ cup sour cream
- 2 tablespoon honey softened
- 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
- 1 tablespoon poppy seeds
- salt to taste
Salad
- 4 cups chicken breast , cooked, chopped (about 2 chicken breasts)
- 1 cup pecans , chopped
- ½ cup dried cranberries
- 4 green onions , chopped
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.
Nutrition
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Delicious. Loved the dressing. Added some shrimp too to make a quick and easy supper.
Fiona, I am so glad you enjoyed this recipe! Thanks for stopping by and sharing your comment! 🙂
Could you substitute the honey for sugar free maple syrup so it would be keto friendly?
Loved this. I added diced celery and apples to “bulk it up” a bit more to use as weeknight main dish. Served with a good sourdough, it was a hit!
Delicious!
This was absolutely delicious! I followed the recipe exactly except I didn't have any poppy seeds. It was so good I sat there with the whole bowl and a fork for a while, haha!
Thank you for the recipe!
This was so good! Made recipe exactly! The dressing was delicious.
Vicki, I am so glad to hear that! Happy you liked the recipe! 🙂
Is this served with the chicken warm or cold?
The chicken does not have to be warm. Room temperature is the best, this recipe also works well as a cold salad.
We loved this recipe. Instead of chicken I added a bag coleslaw mix! Very good
Thank you, Nancy! Glad you liked it!
I have a house full of very picky eaters but everyone enjoyed this dish! Next time I am making a double batch!
Can you use Greek yogurt instead of sour cream
Thank you for delicious recipe. My husband loves it. We only ate half of it last night so I plan to buy some great croissants at our French bakery and have chicken salad croissants for dinner tonight with fresh fruit. Thanks again
The perfect thing for a ladies luncheon....on a bed of fresh greens and crusty bread on the side. Thanks.
This was delicious. My family enjoyed it .
Easy to make and the dressing was great.
Thanks
I want to make this for my daughter-in-law
Except she doesn’t like onions, what do you
Suggest I replace it with
This is my new “go to” chicken salad! Amazing! Friends request me to make it specifically