Easy Chicken Salad

This is how my Nanny taught me to make chicken salad years ago. I’ve never tried it any other way because, “if it aint broke, don’t fix it.” Also, many folks imagine me with a house nanny when I say “my Nanny.” She’s my Grandma on my Moms side. Anyone else call their Grandma, Nanny? Nanny uses a food processor to grind up all her ingredients. So, you’ll need a food processor. I have had this cheap one from walmart for many years and it has served us well.

Now, this recipe is all to taste. I will give approximate measurements, but use this “recipe” as more of a guideline.

To make this simple recipe even easier, I put my chicken in the crockpot in the morning (on high for about 2 hours) and its ready to whip up by lunch. You will need the following:

• 1-1.5 lb of chicken cooked in crockpot with 1/4 cup of water. I season with garlic and onion powder.
• 7-8 stalks of celery
• 1 cup of pecans or walnuts
• 1-1.5 cups of mayonnaise. I use Dukes, duh.
• 2-3 oz of raisins (I love to chop up grapes too. Mark prefers raisins over grapes. So, I almost always use raisins.)

I put each of these in the food processor one by one with the exceptions of the raisins.

I use a tuperware bowl because we always have extra. After you’ve got all your ingredients in a bowl, add the mayonnaise and mix it together until well combined.

We also like to serve with croissants.

Enjoy!

xoxo,

Brittany