Cool Chicken Salad

Cool Chicken Salad is a quick to prepare and delicious to eat recipe that suits our rushed lifestyles. It contains grapes and pineapple and crunch is supplied by walnuts and/or pine nuts. In terms of good diet this recipe stands above so many others.

Ingredients

8 oz (225 grams) cooked chicken breast, broken into chunks
1 oz (28 grams) celery, diced
1 oz (28 grams) onion, chopped
3 oz (85 grams) red seedless grapes
3 oz (85 grams) pineapple chunks, drained
8 oz (225 grams) mayonnaise (or diet mayo)
1/4 tsp onion salt
1/8 tsp pepper
pine nuts, optional

Instructions

Toss all ingredients together and serve on a bed of fresh crisp lettuce. Top with walnut pieces and paprika. You can add pine nuts, too if you wish. Serves 1.

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