Tuna/Chicken Salad Recipe
Sep. 1st, 2024 09:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thewayneA couple of months ago I started making tuna salad to take to work for lunch, and of course started tweaking the recipe as time went on. And it was pretty good. And then I started thinking about chicken salad. We buy a lot of canned chicken to make dog food with as a sweetener for the dry kibble, so buying it and working with it was a pretty normal thing for me. I did a little searching and found this recipe. AND IT IS GOOD!
1 (12 1/2 ounce) can chicken breasts
1 (6 ounce) can solid white tuna
1/3 cup mayonnaise
2 tablespoons honey mustard
1/4 cup apricot preserves
3 tablespoons sweet pickle relish
1/2 red apple, cored, chopped
1 cup dark raisin
1/8 teaspoon pepper
-Drain the chicken & albacore & shred them in a bowl.
-Add the mayonnaise, mustard, preserves & pickle relish.
-Quarter the unpeeled apple & get rid of the core.
-Stand each quarter apple on its edge and slice each in half lengthwise, keeping the red halves.
-Dice these red halves & add to chicken/albacore mix, along with the raisins.
-Mix well & season with pepper to taste.
-Refrigerate.
https://www.food.com/recipe/chicken-tuna-salad-206524
Add a short stack of Ritz crackers and lunch is served!
I prefer golden raisins over dark, and didn't bother adding them for my first batch. I also did not use solid tuna, and I probably used more apple than called for as we buy those Rockit 'boxes' of small apples and I used two. I also didn't pepper it as my wife has a sensitivity and I don't think it lacked in taste.
Basically, it's a very good recipe base and will be amenable to lots of experimentation. And why bother with measuring for this one! Just take a spoon or spatula and start dumping stuff in, this one doesn't call for precision. As long as you have the two cans of protein, pretty much anything goes.
As far as my next experiment goes, I'm planning two hard-boiled eggs for my batch that I'll be making Sunday or Monday.
Oh, and another thing - a friend of mine told me about a cool trick that I plan on using! Instead of trying to cut up the eggs, I'm going to use my dough masher! That hand tool that has like 6-8 parallel blades? Should be ideal for mashing up eggs!
1 (12 1/2 ounce) can chicken breasts
1 (6 ounce) can solid white tuna
1/3 cup mayonnaise
2 tablespoons honey mustard
1/4 cup apricot preserves
3 tablespoons sweet pickle relish
1/2 red apple, cored, chopped
1 cup dark raisin
1/8 teaspoon pepper
-Drain the chicken & albacore & shred them in a bowl.
-Add the mayonnaise, mustard, preserves & pickle relish.
-Quarter the unpeeled apple & get rid of the core.
-Stand each quarter apple on its edge and slice each in half lengthwise, keeping the red halves.
-Dice these red halves & add to chicken/albacore mix, along with the raisins.
-Mix well & season with pepper to taste.
-Refrigerate.
https://www.food.com/recipe/chicken-tuna-salad-206524
Add a short stack of Ritz crackers and lunch is served!
I prefer golden raisins over dark, and didn't bother adding them for my first batch. I also did not use solid tuna, and I probably used more apple than called for as we buy those Rockit 'boxes' of small apples and I used two. I also didn't pepper it as my wife has a sensitivity and I don't think it lacked in taste.
Basically, it's a very good recipe base and will be amenable to lots of experimentation. And why bother with measuring for this one! Just take a spoon or spatula and start dumping stuff in, this one doesn't call for precision. As long as you have the two cans of protein, pretty much anything goes.
As far as my next experiment goes, I'm planning two hard-boiled eggs for my batch that I'll be making Sunday or Monday.
Oh, and another thing - a friend of mine told me about a cool trick that I plan on using! Instead of trying to cut up the eggs, I'm going to use my dough masher! That hand tool that has like 6-8 parallel blades? Should be ideal for mashing up eggs!
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Date: 2024-09-01 04:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-09-01 07:05 pm (UTC)It's quite good! The extra sweetness from the chicken and honey mustard and preserves are really good.
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Date: 2024-09-02 07:58 am (UTC)Othewise, what about a potato masher (the wire kind)?
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Date: 2024-09-02 08:03 am (UTC)Pastry blender! THAT'S the name! I think I've used mine maybe once or twice, but it's going to get used tomorrow - on eggs. :-) I did read an interesting use for a potato masher: breaking up ground beef! I assume any ground meat, apparently it does a great job. A wire potato masher might be fine, I don't know how stiff the wires are. Mine is a steel disk sort of masher.
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Date: 2024-09-02 08:02 am (UTC)Hugs, Jon
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Date: 2024-09-02 08:17 am (UTC)Could double-up the chicken and do no tuna.
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Date: 2024-09-02 11:56 am (UTC)