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Chicken Salad with Cherries

This Chicken Salad with Cherries is a refreshing twist on the classic. It’s sweet, savory, crunchy, and creamy all at once, thanks to the combination of dried cherries, yogurt-Dijon dressing, crisp apples, celery, and toasted pecans.
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Course: Salad
Prep Time: 15 minutes
Total Time: 15 minutes
Servings: 4

Ingredients

  • 1 cup unsweetened dried cherries
  • 1/2 orange or 1 clementine peeled and quartered
  • 3 tablespoons honey
  • 1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil
  • 1 cup plain nonfat Greek yogurt
  • 2 teaspoons Dijon mustard
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • ½ teaspoon ground black pepper
  • 3-4 cups meat from a rotisserie chicken skin removed and chopped into bite-sized pieces
  • 3 celery diced small
  • 1 granny smith apple diced
  • 1/3 cup chopped pecans toasted
  • 1/3 cup parsley chopped

Instructions

  • In a food processor, add cherries, orange, honey, and oil. Pulse till combined but still chunky.
  • In a large bowl, add cherry mixture, yogurt, Dijon, salt, and pepper and mix well.
  • Add chicken, celery, apple, pecans, and parsley and mix together.

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