THRIVE Chicken Salad – Tasty Party Favorite!

Have a party but don’t want to take the time to make your own chicken salad? No problem! With Thrive’s Chopped Chicken, Chopped Onions, and Chopped Celery, you’re nearly done. 🙂 In fact, I was able to make this even fast with a pantry can of Thrive’s Chicken Salad Mix which already combines the chicken, onions, and celery in the correct proportions:

For some reason we don’t sell the Chicken Salad Mix in a can like this anymore and so you have to buy the separate ingredients which isn’t really a problem assuming you’ll use them for other purposes… and I suspect you will. In fact, we actually ate this for dinner two nights ago. Well, my wife and I did. The kids? Not so much. I made the mistake of telling them the recipe had onions in the mix and it was all downhill from there. 😉

Ingredients:

This recipe originally found here is roughly the same as what I used but since my recipe came from a can of already combined Chicken Salad Mix the ratios are a bit different…

• 2½ c. Chopped Chicken
• ½ c. Chopped Onions
• ¾ c. Chopped Celery
• 2 c. water
• ¾ c. mayonnaise
• 1 tbsp. Dijon mustard
• ½ tsp. Salt
• ¼ tsp. Black Pepper
• ½ tsp. Chef’s Choice Seasoning Blend (in the recipe I used this was omitted)

Directions

Combine chicken, onions, and celery in a bowl with the water, stir well (it may still look a little runny but that’s OK), and refrigerate for about 10 minutes. I think I waited about 8 minutes to move on. Here’s what it looks like WITHOUT the water:

Mix all the other ingredients in a separate bowl until thoroughly combined:

Now add the “other” ingredients to the chicken salad mix and stir together until well combined. Return mixture to the refrigerator for about 1 1/2 hours (yes, it may still look a bit runny but that’s still OK):

Before serving, stir well one more time and serve however you prefer. In this case I ate it just like a half-sandwich. I had a few, in fact:

Overall, the chicken salad mix was quite tasty and both my wife and I enjoyed it. The kids ate it but not so much… guess they just can’t get over that nearly nonexistent onion taste. 🙂