Thursday, December 24, 2009

Any good tuna, chicken, or potato salad recipes?

Love to try out new recipesAny good tuna, chicken, or potato salad recipes?
I used to own a deli, and people RAVED about my chicken salad.





Its very very simple, just use canned chicken breast, easier than how we did it.





I dont measure EVER, everything is to taste so experiment, but this will be the best chicken salad you've ever had.





Canned chicken salad


Mayo


Honey Mustard


Chopped Celery


Salt


Pepper





Thats it!! And its freakin amazing!





Tuna Salad we used to make at the deli





Canned Tuna


Old bay seasoning


Lots of mayo


Chopped celery


salt


pepper





Done! Once again, an amazing yet simple recipe!Any good tuna, chicken, or potato salad recipes?
Curry chicken salad





2 chicken breasts shredded


2 sticks of celery diced


2 green onions sliced


1/2 apple apple diced


1/3 cup mayo


1 tbs spoon curry powder


1 lemon


salt and pepper





Saute chicken seasoned with salt and pepper until cooked through, then cool. While chicken is cooking dice celery, apple, and green onion. In a bowl combine mayo, curry, sugar, lemon juice and salt and pepper. When chicken is cool shred with a fork. Combine chicken, vegetables, and dressing. Enjoy


1 tbs honey or sugar
Old Fashioned Potato Salad





INGREDIENTS


5 potatoes


3 eggs


1 cup chopped celery


1/2 cup chopped onion


1/2 cup sweet pickle relish


1/4 teaspoon garlic salt


1/4 teaspoon celery salt


1 tablespoon prepared mustard


ground black pepper to taste


1/4 cup mayonnaise








DIRECTIONS


Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. Add potatoes and cook until tender but still firm, about 15 minutes. Drain, cool, peel and chop.


Place eggs in a saucepan and cover with cold water. Bring water to a boil; cover, remove from heat, and let eggs stand in hot water for 10 to 12 minutes. Remove from hot water, cool, peel and chop.


In a large bowl, combine the potatoes, eggs, celery, onion, relish, garlic salt, celery salt, mustard, pepper and mayonnaise. Mix together well and refrigerate until chilled.



this is a very good and easy chicken salad;





2 1/2 cups diced and chilled, cooked chicken meat


1 cup chopped celery


1 cup sliced, seedless grapes


1/2 cup sliced almonds


2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley


1 teaspoon salt


1 cup mayonnaise


1/4 cup heavy whipping cream





In a medium bowl, whip cream to soft peaks.


Combine meat, celery, grapes, almonds, parsley, salt, and mayonnaise with whipped cream. Chill.


serves 10


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BOMBAY CHICKEN SALAD - or replace chicken with diced potato and works great





2 c. cooked diced chicken


1/2 c. raw rice, cooked


1/2 c. India or sweet pickle relish


1/2 c. mayonnaise


3 tbsp. sour or heavy cream


1 can pimento, chopped


1 c. shredded coconut


Paprika





Combine chicken, rice and relish; toss until well blended. Mix mayonnaise and cream; add to chicken mixture. Add pimento and coconut; garnish with mayonnaise and paprika. Serve at room temperature. Serves 4





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BOMBAY CHICKEN PASTA SALAD IN CREAMY CURRY


DRESSING - you can replace chicken with tuna and add avocado pieces (1 can of tuna, 1 avocado chopped)





1/4 lb. rotelle pasta


1 whole boneless chicken breast, grilled/sauteed in oil %26amp; cut into bite size pieces


5 cherry tomatoes


2 scallions, sliced thin


1 tbsp. finely chopped fresh basil leaves





DRESSING:





1/2 tsp. minced garlic


1 tsp. minced fresh ginger root


3 tbsp. unsalted butter


1/2 c. heavy cream


1 tbsp. white wine vinegar


3/4 tsp. curry powder


Red pepper flakes to taste


1 tbsp. chopped mango chutney





Cook pasta in boiling salted water until tender. Rinse with cold water and drain. Combine in a bowl pasta, chicken, tomatoes, scallions and basil.


DRESSING: Cook garlic and ginger root in butter over low heat until garlic is softened. Add cream, whisk until slightly thickened. Whisk in vinegar, curry powder, pepper flakes and chutney.





Add dressing to pasta mixture, toss until well mixed. Season with salt and pepper. Serves 2.



I have a no mayo potato salad recipe. So you can leave it out, it should be served room temp.





Boil potatos just until they are tender. Basically however you like your potatoes to be.





slice them up and while they are warm add 1/2 cup chicken stock and 4 tbsp white wine. the liquid will soak up. salt and pepper to taste.





while that is soaking make your vinegarette.


1/2 c olive oil


3 tbsp white vinegar


2-3 tbsp of grey poupon


salt pepper


Whisk and pour all over...then chop up some tarragon, chives and parsley to add some color. THis is such a great yummy salad.
Make a healthy salad with Tuna, chicken, potato and also you can put avocado and feta cheese and the dressing with extra virgin olive oil and serves for two people.
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Spicy mac and cheese w/ tuna

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