Chicken Salad With Apples,Grapes, and Spicy Pecans

By YogiRenee

This sweet, crunchy salad tastes great on its own. It also makes a good sandwich on toasted multigrain bread or in a whole-wheat pita with watercress

Ingredients

• For Spicy Pecans:
• PREP: 25 minutes
• 1 cup mayonnaise
• 2 tablespoons Dijon mustard
• 1/4 cup fruit chutney
• 5 chicken breast halves, cooked and
• cut into bite size pieces
• ( about 6 cups)
• 2 celery ribs, chopped(about 1 cup)
• 1 cup red seedless grapes, cut in
• half
• 1 tart apple, such as Granny Smith
• or Pippin, peeled and chopped
• (about 1 1/4 cups)
• 1/4 cup chopped fresh parsley
• Sea salt to taste
• Freshly ground pepper, to taste
• 1 cup Spicy Pecans (recipe below)
• This makes twice what's needed for the recipe above;serve the extra at happy hour.
• Makes 2 cups
• 2 cups pecan halves
• 2-3 tablespoons vanilla extract
• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• 2 tablespoons dried rosemary
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon sea salt
• 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black
• pepper
• 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper

Details

Servings 4

Preparation

Step 1

Stir together first 3 ingredients in a medium bowl. Add chicken pieces and next 6 ingredients, and gently toss. Sprinkle with Spicy Pecans, and serve immediately, or cover and chill up to 3 days.