From Clover Cottage: Italian Style Chicken Salad!

Sunday, August 19, 2012

Italian Style Chicken Salad!

I adore chicken salad. I adore it even more when I can eat it on top of a garden salad. I'm a salady type person. Salad, salad, salad. everyday in the summer and at least three times a week in the winter. I love me some salad! I just happened to have some left over turkey from the turkey and dumplings so naturally making salad was in the back of my mind. This is an unusual twist on the regular, but so tasty with the creamy Italian dressing and the lemon zest and thyme lent light and refreshing undertones to it as well. It was s'wonderful, mahvelous...

For the turkey/chicken salad:

1 cup cooked, diced and/or shredded turkey or chicken

zest of one lemon

1/2 teaspoon fresh thyme

2 basil leaves, chopped

sea salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste

1/4 cup Duke's mayonnaise

Zest one lemon and chop the basil and thyme together.

Add the mayonnaise, lemon zest, herbs and seasonings to the chicken/turkey.

Mix well and refrigerate until serving.

For the creamy Italian dressing, mix together:

3 tablespoons Duke's mayonnaise

1 teaspoon lemon juice

1/4 teaspoon sea salt

1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper

2 tablespoons grated Parmesan cheese

I'm particularly fond on chopped salad these days, so I made this one with all of the veggies chopped uniformly. You can do it like this or your way. It's up to you!