Curried Chicken Salad

This curried chicken salad is a surprisingly delicious and unexpected departure from traditional chicken salad. This is a hormone-friendly, savory version with earthy curry powder, Greek yogurt and chopped celery for crunch. Plop on top your favorite lettuce mix or serve on crunchy cucumber slices. This is great for meal-prepping lunches or a healthy dinner when you’re too tired to cook.

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Ingredients

(see printable recipe card down below)

SERVINGS: 4 | Start to finish: 15 minutes

• 2 cups (280 g) chopped rotisserie chicken breast

• ½ cup (50 g) chopped celery

• ½ cup (112 g) plain full-fat Greek yogurt

• 2 tbsp (20 g) minced onion

• 1 tbsp (7 g) curry powder

• ¼ tsp (0.5 g) black pepper

• Mixed salad greens (mesclun) or romaine lettuce

Swaps and enhancements for perimenopause and insulin resistance:

• add 1 tbsp pumpkin seeds or slivered almonds for healthy fat, magnesium and crunch

• serve with sliced avocado

• as a budget option, use drained canned white meat chicken. I rinse it in a mesh strainer to remove the floating fat content and reduce the sodium somewhat.

How to Make This

1. In a medium bowl, add ingredients through black pepper; stir to combine.

2. Cover and refrigerate until chilled, about 1 hour.

3. Serve salad greens that have been rinsed and dried

Before You Go

This recipe came out of the same place where I write the rest of this blog: in a vintage RV parked in the woods next to a river, where I write about rebel wellness, fierce confidence, simple living and hormone friendly meals for women over 40 in perimenopause and menopause. If you’re interested to learn more about these topics, read my story  or start here .

If this made meal time a little easier, leave a comment below or a review on the recipe card. Tell me what you swapped or what you added.

Melissa

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Curried Chicken Salad

Servings: 6

Author: Melissa

Prep time: 10 MinTotal time: 10 Min

This curried chicken salad is a surprisingly delicious and unexpected departure from beloved traditional chicken salad by adding savory curry powder with its warm, earthy flavor, hint of sweetness and mild heat. This curried chicken salad is DASH diet, MIND diet, Mediterranean diet friendly.

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Ingredients

• 2 cups chopped chicken breast from a rotisserie chicken
• 1/2 cup chopped celery (about 2 stalks)
• 1/4 cup mayonnaise, or more to your preference
• 2 tablespoons minced onion
• 1 tablespoon curry powder, or more to taste
• 1/4 teaspoon salt, optional if watching sodium intake
• 1/4 teaspoon black pepper

Instructions

1. In a medium bowl, add all ingredients; stir to combine.
2. Cover and refrigerate until chilled, about 1 hour.
3. Serve in lettuce leaves for a wrap or atop mixed salad greens

Nutrition Facts

Calories

215

Fat (grams)

14 g

Sat. Fat (grams)

3 g

Fiber (grams)

1 g

Net carbs

1 g

Sugar (grams)

0 g

Protein (grams)

22 g

Sodium (milligrams)

437 mg

Vitamin D

0 µg

Vitamin E

1 mg

Calcium

10 mg

Magnesium

4 mg

Vitamin B12

0 µg

Vitamin C

1 mg

Potassium

45 mg

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