Chicken and Apple Salad. Leftover grilled chicken breasts are ideal for making this chicken salad in a yogurt based dressing with apples, celery, red onion, and grapes. Made this last week sometime for supper. Nice for a summer meal, will definitely make again!

If using rotisserie chicken, simply pull the meat from the bone, remove the skin, and give the meat a rough chop. This low-calorie Chicken and Apple Salad puts a zesty spin on an old childhood favorite. Instead of serving this main-dish salad over greens, fold it into whole-wheat wraps with a few spinach leaves. You can have Chicken and Apple Salad using 11 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Chicken and Apple Salad

1. Prepare 2 lbs of skin-on, bone-in chicken breasts.
2. It's of salt and pepper.
3. It's 1/3 c of and 1 T vegetable oil.
4. You need 2 T of sherry vinegar or red wine vinegar.
5. It's 1 T of and 1 tsp Dijon mustard.
6. It's 1 tsp of honey.
7. You need 2 of Gala apples, thinly sliced.
8. Prepare 1/2 c of chopped walnuts.
9. Prepare 1 of small head escarole, torn in pieces.
10. Prepare 2 heads of Belgian endive, trimmed and sliced.
11. Prepare 1 c of shredded cheddar cheese.

Serve the wrap with baked potato chips or tortilla chips on the side. Mix your fruits and veggies with our tangy Chicken Salad with Apples! Walnuts, celery and apples pack a powerful crunch in our Chicken Salad with Apples. The crunchy apples, cranberries, and nuts make it extra-special.

Chicken and Apple Salad instructions

1. Preheat oven to 375°F. Season chicken with 1 tsp salt and pepper to taste..
2. In large oven-proof skillet, heat 1 T oil. Add chicken skin-side down and cook until golden. Transfer skillet to oven and bake until thickest part of meat thermometer reads 165°, about 25 min. Transfer to cutting board and let rest 5 min..
3. In large bowl, whisk vinegar, mustard and honey. Gradually add oil..
4. Remove chicken from bone and slice. In large bowl, toss lettuce, apples, walnuts and dressing. Top with chicken and cheese..

This is an excellent way to use leftover chicken—or make the salad with leftover turkey. A fully cooked rotisserie chicken or convenient fully cooked chicken breast strips may be used as well. Apple Chicken Salad Now that my six children are grown, I make lots of small-portion meals. This salad is easy to put together and so mouthwatering! In a medium bowl, gently stir together, chicken, apple, celery and raisins.