Curry Chicken Salad with Grapes
Try this Curry Chicken Salad with Grapes and Pecans for a cool summer lunch! It’s packed with flavor and easy to throw together for a (small) crowd 🙂
I love me a good chicken salad sandwich. And I loveeeee curry. This Curry Chicken Salad with Grapes combines both of these loves perfectly. And like most chicken salad recipes (and egg salad recipes), it’s easy to throw together (yay!). You will need a rotisserie chicken, grapes, pecans, curry powder and the usual chicken salad suspects: onion, celery, mayo and salt + pepper. Let’s make it!
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Ingredients
Chicken Curry Salad with Grapes
- Rotisserie chicken – or you can cook chicken at home if you want to
- Celery
- Onion
- Vinegar
- Curry powder
- Salt and pepper
- Sugar
- Red grapes
- Pecan pieces – raw and unsalted
- Mayonnaise
- Parsley
How to make it
1. Shred the chicken
If you are going with my recommendation of using a rotisserie chicken, get this part out of the way first! Get all the meat you can off the rotisserie chicken and place it in a bowl in the fridge so it can cool. I find I get about 4 cups of chicken from one rotisserie chicken. If making your own chicken, just season it lightly with a little salt and pepper.
2. Quick pickle the onions and celery
This is a little step I like to take when I make chicken salad. I dice onion and celery and add it to the bowl I want to keep the chicken salad in, then add a little vinegar, salt and sugar. This helps reduce the onions pungency a tad and makes raw onions more pleasant to eat.
3. Slice grapes and toast pecans
Slice the red grapes in half, then toast the pecans. To toast the pecans, just add them to a non-stick skillet over medium-low heat and stir continuously. Do this for about 5 minutes, until you start to smell the nuts.
4. Combine everything & enjoy!
Add the chicken to the bowl with the celery and onion. Add the remaining ingredients: grapes, pecans, mayo, curry powder, pepper and parsley. Stir thoroughly and enjoy on your favorite bread or in a pita!
Can you freeze this chicken curry salad with grapes?
While you can freeze most things to thaw and enjoy later, chicken salad with grapes is not the ideal thing to do this with. When grapes are frozen and thawed they become mushy. If you really are wanting to freeze this chicken salad, you could make it without the grapes and freeze. Then thaw when you’re ready to enjoy and add the grapes when ready to serve.
How long does chicken salad last in the fridge?
Chicken salad will be good when stored in the fridge for 3-4 days. Make sure it’s refrigerated right after it’s done and never sits out too long.
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Curry Chicken Salad with Grapes
This Curry Chicken Salad is the perfect summer lunch! It's packed with flavor and is easy to throw together for picnics and beach days.
- Prep Time: 40 minutes
- Cook Time: 5 minutes
- Total Time: 45 minutes
- Yield: 4 *see notes 1x
- Category: Main Course, Salad
- Cuisine: American
Ingredients
- 4 cups shredded rotisserie chicken ((about 1 whole rotisserie chicken))
- 1/4 large white onion, diced ((about 3/4 cup))
- 2 stalks celery, diced ((about 1/2 cup))
- 1 tsp salt
- 3 tbsp red wine vinegar
- 1 tsp sugar
- 2/3 cup pecan pieces, raw and unsalted
- 1 cup red grapes, cut in half
- 1 cup mayonnaise
- 1 1/2 tbsp curry powder
- 1/8 tsp black pepper
- 2 tbsp chopped fresh parsley
Instructions
- Remove chicken from bones and shred first if not already done.
- Place diced onion and celery in a medium-sized mixing bowl. Add the vinegar, salt and sugar. Stir and set aside.
- While the celery and onions marinate, toast the pecans. Add to a non-stick pan over medium-low heat. Cook about 5 minutes, stirring constantly. Remove from heat when you start to smell the pecans.
- Add the chicken to the mixing bowl with the onions and celery. Add the grapes, pecans, mayo, curry powder, pepper, parsley to the bowl and stir until fully combined.
- Serve immediately or store in the fridge until ready to use. Enjoy within 3-4 days.
Notes
Servings – I put the serving size as 4 because it’s just hard to know what someone might want as a serving. It might serve up to 6 depending on how much you use per sandwich.
Nuts – If you want to skip toasting the nuts, I get it. Toasting them really helps develop their flavor and gives them a better texture so if you can find them roasted and unsalted, go for it. Just know if you get salted, it will affect the flavor of the overall salad and you might want to adjust the added salt in the recipe.
