5 Ingredient Chicken Salad
A really good chicken salad recipe that only requires 5 ingredients; cooked chicken, celery, onion, mayo and Dijon. Makes great meal prep, a delicious lunch or light dinner.
Servings 4 servings
Calories 317kcal
Ingredients
- 2 cups cooked chicken diced or shredded
- ½ cup celery diced
- ⅓ cup onion diced, green onion, red onion or white onion
- ½ cup mayonnaise
- 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
Instructions
- In a bowl whisk together the mayo and Dijon. Add in ½ teaspoon kosher salt and ¼ teaspoon black pepper.½ cup mayonnaise, 1 Tbsp Dijon mustard
- Measure in the chicken, onion, and celery. Stir it all together so the mayo mixture coats everything.2 cups cooked chicken, ½ cup celery, ⅓ cup onion
- Taste for seasoning and add more kosher salt and black pepper as desired.
Serving
- Serve on croissants with fresh tomato and lettuce.Also great over a bed of lettuce lightly dressed with vinaigrette.Our favorite is to spoon it straight into your mouth with Ritz crackers.
Side Dishes
Storing
- Chicken salad actually gets better after 24 hours in the fridge, but is great right after it is made too.
- Store in the fridge in an air tight container for up to 4 days.