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Home » Recipe » Main Dish » Easy 5 Ingredient Meal Prep Chicken Salad Recipe

Easy 5 Ingredient Meal Prep Chicken Salad Recipe

Published August 17, 2018 Last modified June 10, 2021 By Ron Unz

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Easy Meal Prep Chicken Salad is a simple chicken salad recipe with only five ingredients.  Make this part of your meal-prep routine!

Chicken salad ingredients

Make extra chicken breasts just for this recipe while making up the rest of your weekly prepped meals.

Not a meal-prepper? Not a problem!  This is also a great way to use up leftover chicken.

This has become my go-to lunch lately. It’s cheap, easy, and really tasty.

And the best part, you don’t have to hunt down a microwave at lunch.

There are only five required ingredients for my chicken salad: chicken, mayo, sour cream, salt, and pepper. That’s it. Super easy.

I’m willing to be you might have most of this in your house already. I also sometimes like to add a little onion to mine, but that’s completely optional.

Chopped chicken with a knife

For this recipe, I used our smoked chicken recipe. But you can use any chicken you like.

I only recommend that you grill, smoke, or bake your chicken breasts.

Do not boil the breasts like I use to do when I was much younger. This adds virtually no flavor.

For some strange reason, boiling chicken dries it out.

Chicken salad ingredients

Chopping up all of the ingredients is the most difficult part, but how difficult can that really be.

I like to sometimes cube my chicken up, pull it, or go with a very rough chop.

I do like to take some of my chicken and go with a very fine chop. I think this kind of helps the salad stick together a little better.

If I do this, I only finely chop about 1/4 of my chicken. I like to have a chunky texture. After you chop up your chicken, toss it into your favorite bowl.

You can pulse your chicken a few times in a food processor, but the chicken salad will be more like a spread.

Don’t forget to add salt and pepper. Salt is what really makes this recipe pop.

Before you transfer the chicken salad to its final destination, make sure to give it a taste. If it tastes a little bland, it needs a little salt. I love Himalayan pink salt .

This recipe is great on bread, but I really like it on saltines or Ritz crackers. This would go well on pita bread or tortilla shells.

Try serving it stuffed inside of a tomato or a few celery stalks for a low carb option.

Rotisserie chicken can also be substituted if you just really do not have the time to smoke, grill, or roast your chicken.

Since this contains mayonnaise and chicken make sure to add a small ice pack or two to keep the chicken salad cold when packing this into lunchboxes.

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Finished chicken salad

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Easy Meal Prep Chicken Salad

A quick and easy chicken salad for meal prepping.
5 from 2 votes
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Course: Lunch, Main Dish, Meal Prep, Snack
Cuisine: American
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Total Time: 10 minutes
Servings: 8 Servings
Calories: 230kcal
Author: Beth Mueller

Ingredients

  • 2 lbs. Chicken breast cooked smoked, grilled, baked, rotisserie
  • 1/2 cup Olive Oil Mayo
  • 1/2 cup Sour Cream
  • Salt
  • Pepper
  • 1/2 cup onion optional

Instructions

  • Chop up your chicken and onion (optional) to your desired consistency.
  • Toss into a bowl.
  • Add the sour cream and mayo.
  • Add about a healthy pinch of salt and pepper.
  • Mix thoroughly.
  • Give the recipe a taste. If it tastes a little bland, add more salt.

Nutrition

Serving: 4g | Calories: 230kcal
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Filed Under: Beginner Recipes, Main Dish, Meal-Prep, Poultry, Recipe, Sandwiches

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