Chicken Salad Board
Make your own Chicken Salad Board with your favorite bread (croissants) and toppings, and our delicious, easy chicken salad sandwich recipe!
I love preparing a recipe of my favorite chicken salad, with leftover chicken breasts from dinner the night before. It’s a great snack for a quick bite (with a cracker), or a half sandwich for lunch. Or, better yet, it’s fun to serve on a Chicken Salad Board. You may have already tried our Chicken Caesar Salad in a Jar Board (so fun for a picnic).
In steps Cyndi Kane’s new book, Save it Forward Suppers, where you learn the process of “batch cooking.” Cyndi’s method entails cooking a meal, where half is reheated or used the next night. It cuts down on cooking time and food waste, plus, she has 15 meal plans to follow!
Chicken Salad Board
Today we’re making Cyndi’s Chicken Salad Board, and serving it on 20-inch The Big Board, for everyone to make their own sandwiches. You can watch the fast-speed video here, of how to make a board in minutes! [Grab the boards link at the bottom of this post, plus the chicken salad recipe.]
Ingredients for making a Chicken Salad Sandwich Board
- Cooked chicken breasts
- Mayonnaise
- Pickles (we love sweet pickles!)
- Lemon
- Salt and pepper
- Romaine lettuce leaves
- Bread of your choice (we used croissants)
- Roasted asparagus
- Roasted grapes
- Your choice of other snacks, like olives, pickles, cheese, veggies, crackers
Variations and substitutions:
Use canned tuna fish or leftover salmon in place of the chicken.
Add grapes, pineapple, or nuts to the chicken mixture.
Mix up the breads to use whole wheat, Hawaiian rolls, homemade biscuits, or even tortillas (to make tortilla chicken salad wraps).
Add curry to spice up the chicken salad.
More chicken salad recipes to try:
Classic Chicken Salad with Grapes
Grilled Zucchini Burrata Chicken Salad
Strawberry Watermelon Chicken Salad
Tips for making chicken salad:
- Combine the chicken and mayo in a mixer and mix until smooth and spreadable.
- Add in the pickles along with the lemon juice, and add salt and pepper to taste; mix some more.
- Keep tasting the chicken salad until you get the lemon, salt and pepper just right.
How to make a Chicken Salad Board:
Place the chicken salad in a bowl and set on a board.
Serve with crisp romaine lettuce leaves, bread and extra mayo, for people to make their own sandwiches.
Add Roasted Asparagus and Roasted Grapes, and other snacks to the board to round out the party at your table.
Save it Forward Suppers, by Cyndi Kane
In Cyndi’s new book, Save it Forward Suppers, I love her practical tips, witty style, and fabulous, easy recipes. Her method is excellent, especially if you are a new cook. For example, you make beef kabobs one night for dinner, then repurpose them later in the week for soft tacos!
Included are 100-plus recipes and 15 easy weekly menus.
BUY the cookbook, HERE.
I love the idea behind this book, helping us all to be better meal planners. Some of these recipes are creative, some are classics, and they all look very delicious!
So for now, chicken salad is so versatile and there are so many way serve it. Serve it on The Big Board!
The Big Board®
Friends, The Big Board® is here! Yes, I’ve partnered with JK Adams, the premier woodmaking company in Vermont, with my own line of RE boards!
- 20-inch round, maple
- 26-inch round, maple
- 12 x 36-inch maple
- 12 x 24-inch maple
- NEW 12×24” travel board
- 26-inch ebonized BLACK, cherry
- 12 x 36-inch ebonized BLACK, cherry
- A board with a lip (or raised edged) so the food doesn’t fall off
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- Undercut handles (a unique design)
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Get the Recipe:
Chicken Salad Board
Ingredients
- 2 cooked chicken breasts
- ¾ cup mayonnaise
- ¼ cup pickles, chopped (we love sweet pickles!)
- Juice of 1/2 to 1 lemon
- Table salt and pepper
- Romaine lettuce leaves, crisp
- Croissants, or bread of your choice, like Hawaiian rolls
- Roasted asparagus
- Roasted grapes
- Your choice of other snacks, like olives, pickles, cheese, veggies, crackers
Instructions
- In a mixer, combine the chicken and mayo until smooth and spreadable. Mix in the pickles along with the lemon juice, and salt and pepper to taste.
- Place the chicken salad in a bowl and set on a board.
- Serve with crisp romaine lettuce leaves, bread and extra mayo, for people to make their own sandwiches.
- Add roasted Aasparagus and roasted grapes, and other snacks to the board to round out the party at your table.
Notes
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