You are going to love this easy chicken salad. Tart dried cherries add a sweet tang to this Chicken Salad in Lettuce Cups is a delicious rotisserie chicken salad, you'll make over and over again!
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Rotisserie Chicken Salad
Why yes, this is another recipe using rotisserie chicken. Perhaps I should change the name of the blog to "I Buy a Rotisserie Chicken Once a Week and Here is What I do With It." It has a nice ring to it, doesn't it? Though I suppose it's a tad long. Even as I am typing this in, I went grocery shopping this morning and there is a rotisserie chicken chilling out in my fridge.
Tonight's dinner will use the legs and thighs in a riff on Zuni Cafe's Roasted Chicken and Bread Salad and tomorrow the breast meat is going into a curried chicken salad. The bones get stashed in the freezer until I have enough to make stock or sometimes they get tossed into a chicken soup, just to add some of that bone broth goodness.
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Easy Chicken Salad
Of course, you could easily roast your own chicken and I do all the time, but there is something about grocery shopping day, that just makes me want to not cook. Luckily there are so many uses for a rotisserie chicken, I don't feel bad about buying one! Check out at the end of the post for some more ways I use rotisserie chicken!
I found this easy Chicken Salad in Lettuce Cups at Cooking Light. It's super easy and what intrigued me were the dried cherries! They really added a tart sweetness to the salad. This makes a lovely lunch or even a light dinner with a glass of chardonnay. Now, as is the case with a lot of Cooking Light recipes, the serving size is pretty small. It says that it serves 6. It only served 4 of us.
Chicken Salad in Lettuce Cups
Ingredients
- ¼ cup chopped toasted walnuts
- ¼ cup light mayonnaise
- ¼ cup plain fat-free Greek yogurt
- 2 teaspoons sherry vinegar
- ¼ teaspoon kosher salt
- ¼ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- 2 cups shredded skinless , boneless rotisserie chicken breast
- 2 tablespoons chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley
- 6 green onions , white and light green parts, chopped
- 6 Bibb lettuce leaves
- ⅓ cup tart dried cherries
Instructions
- Combine the mayonnaise, yogurt, vinegar, salt and pepper in a large bowl. Add the chicken, parsley and onions. Toss to combine. Place a lettuce leaf on each plate and divide the chicken salad among the plates. Top with the cherries.
Nutrition
Some other salads made using rotisserie chicken:
Chicken, Cucumbers and Sweet Peppers
Chicken and Sweet Potato Farro Salad
Miz Helen says
Love your Chicken Salad! Thanks so much for sharing your awesome post with us at Full Plate Thursday! Hope you are having a great week and come back to see us real soon.
Miz Helen
Tina Culbertson says
Rotisserie chicken can make so many great meals. I have never had dried cherries, looks like a good addition.
Marjie says
It's nice to not have to roast the chicken when it's hot outside, or after you've gone shopping. I like your idea of buying one rotisserie chicken per week, and using it a couple of times. This looks like a nice light meal, Pam.
Sandee says
What a wonderful thing to eat when it's so hot. Healthy and so good in hot weather.
Have a fabulous day. ☺
Ann says
My salad days are long gone . . . well at least until summer rolls around again. Saving this receipt for a warm, lazy day.
Deb in Hawaii says
So pretty on the plate! I like the use of the dried cherries too--unique and they add a pop of bright color and flavor.
I noticed you meant to link it to Souper Sundays this week too, so I went ahead and linked you up. 😉
Ann says
I'm saving this one - it will be delicious on a sandwich.
Ellen Pilch says
That sounds good. Nothing wrong with rotiserie chicken, it is tasty and easy.