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ForeverMama's Fabulous Chicken Salad

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  • Servings: 12
  • Prep: 35m
  • Cook: 0m
    • The following recipe serves 12 people.

Ingredients

The ingredients are:
  • 1 whole (3 pound) cooked chicken (1 small rotisserie chicken)
  • 1 1/4 cups mayonnaise
  • 2 tablespoons salad dressing (prepared Italian salad dressing, Ken's brand preferred)
  • 2 teaspoons paprika
  • 1/2 teaspoon ginger
  • 120 to 180 grams dried cranberries (1 to 1 1/2 cups)
  • 2 cups celery, chopped
  • 2 to 4 scallions (stalks finely chopped, amount is depending on your taste)
  • 4 ounces red onion (diced, 1/2 onion)
  • 1 cup walnuts, chopped (toasted)
  • 1/2 to 1 small lime juice, freshly squeezed
  • 1 lime peel, grated (optional)
  • 3/4 teaspoon all purpose seasoning (or to taste, Adobo seasoning, Goya brand)
  • Fresh ground black pepper, to taste
We recommend you get your ingredients ready before you start cooking. Once you're ready, here are the steps to making this delicious recipe

How to Make

  • Step 1: Remove meat from rotisserie chicken. Chop into bite size pieces. Add to large bowl; set aside.

  • Step 2: In a medium size bowl, add the next 9 ingredients; mix to blend. Add lime juice, adobo seasoning and black pepper to taste. Add to chicken and combine to distribute all ingredients evenly. Taste for seasoning and correct, if necessary. Chill for 1 hour before serving.

  • Step 3: NOTE: Concerning the seasonings, I don't always add exactly the amounts given, it's all a matter of taste. If your chicken is on the small size and you find that the amount of celery and scallions adds too much crunch in ratio to the size of your chicken, decrees to your liking if necessary.

  • Tip: I sometimes add a bit of sugar, if I went over too much on the lime juice or if I want a hint of sweetness. I add about 1/2 - 1 tsp sugar.

  • Another Tip: If you go over too much on the salt, add a few more drops of lime juice. Both lime and lemon juice, make the saltiness disappear. Of course test it bit by bit when adding lemon or lime juice, because you don't want to over power with the juice flavor. This tip is one of the secrets of the restaurant trade.

  • One last thing: I've never made this salad with leftover turkey, but I imagine it would be successful as well.

We hope you enjoy this recipe!

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