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Chicken Salad Sandwiches
Original found in Schwan's Catalog
2 cups cooked chicken
1/3 cup mayonnaise
1/2 cup dried cherries*
1/3 cup chopped celery
1/3 cup chopped pecans*
4 pita halves*
Mix chicken, mayonnaise, cherries and celery together. If not serving immediately, chill. When ready to serve, mix in pecans and spoon into pita halves.
My Notes:
*Another variation on this recipe I like is granny smith apples (I like the tartness), with walnuts on sourdough. So, pick a fruit, a nut, and a bread and mix and match as you please.
About a year ago, my baby sister came up to me and told me that she had to bring food to an event that was taking place that night. She signed up to bring chicken salad. I had never made chicken salad before, so I frantically found a recipe and dashed off to the store to find some ready-made ingredients (the one time I will stoop to using canned chicken) and threw the dish together (using the aforementioned apple and walnut variation) with minutes to spare before we ran out the door to her event. It was the favorite among the families there, but I never really bothered to make the recipe again.
Then, I found this recipe while flipping through my Schwan's catalog (I love their ice cream, so sue me). It seemed like a somewhat healthy variation, so I gave it a shot. The cherries provide some sweetness against the savory quality of the chicken. The original dish also calls for green bell peppers for some heat, but all mine had gone bad, so I just omitted it.
Still, my favorite chicken salad sandwich is one from Claim Jumper, their cashew chicken salad on tomato basil bread. Incredibly salty and probably really fattening, but it's a guilty pleasure of mine. I have to learn how to make it at home.
