Italian Chicken Salad

Total Time: 20 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 2 -3 cups cooked chicken (i use food processor, but you can also use 2 forks & shred to a consistency similar to tuna or pulle)
• 1/3 cup hellmann's mayonnaise
• 4 ounces philadelphia cream cheese, softened
• 1/2 cup chopped celery
• 1/3 cup chopped onion
• 1/2 cup pitted black olives, drained & chopped
• 1 (6 ounce) jar marinated artichoke hearts, drained & chopped
• 1/4 cup pinoli nuts, chopped (pine nuts)
• to taste salt
• to taste pepper
• to taste garlic powder
• 1 dash oregano

Recipe

• 1 i use my mini-food processor to chop all of the ingredients except the chicken -- i just give them a few "pulses" per ingredient so they are not pureed in the food processor.
• 2 mix mayonnaise, and cream cheese together in bowl until creamy. stir in chicken & remaining ingredients. chill until ready to serve.
• 3 *can add more or less of the mayonnaise & cream cheese mixture according to taste/texture desired.
• 4 note: you can buy the chicken pre-cooked or make it ahead of time. i recommend using all meat.
• 5 also, you can substitute the pinoli nuts with chopped almond slivers if budget-conscious.