Gourmet Chicken Salad

Total Time: 1 hr Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 40 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 2 1/2 cups cooked chicken, diced and chilled
• 1 cup chopped celery
• 1 cup seedless grapes, cut in half
• 1/4 cup dried cranberries
• 1/4 cup pecan halves or 1/4 cup slivered almonds
• 2 tablespoons fresh parsley, chopped
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup mayonnaise
• 1/3 cup heavy whipping cream

Recipe

• 1 in a medium bowl, whip cream to soft peaks.
• 2 combine meat, celery, grapes, dried fruit and nuts (or salad pizazz), parsley, salt and mayonnaise with whipped cream. chill.
• 3 note: instead of using the dried fruit and the nuts, i always use salad pizazz which is a gourmet salad topping that can be found in grocery stores and comes in a variety of flavors. for this salad i like to use the cherry cranberry pecano, the orange cranberry almondine or the raspberry cranberry walnut frisco.