Chicken Salad

You can use store or restaurant bought rotisserie or grilled chicken, or cook some chicken yourself in the oven, on the grill, under the broiler, or boiled.

The cayenne pepper won't scorch your mouth, and I have really hot cayenne, but the chicken salad was not hot at all.

 

Ingredients (4 to 6 servings):

 

1 pound boneless cooked chicken, chopped

1/2 cup mayonnaise

1/4 cup plain Greek yogurt

1/4 cup buttermilk

1 teaspoon garlic powder

1 tablespoon honey

2 tablespoons very finely chopped onion (red or white)

2 tablespoons finely chopped sweet pickle (or dill pickle, if you prefer)

1 teaspoon celery salt

1 teaspoon ground black pepper

1 good pinch cayenne pepper

1/4 cup pecans, toasted (buy toasted or toast them yourself)

whole wheat or white bread

 

 In a cup or a bowl, add the mayonnaise, yogurt, buttermilk, garlic powder and honey; mix together very well (whisk or I sometimes use a stick blender), set it aside briefly. In a bowl, add the chicken, finely chopped onion, finely chopped sweet pickle (or dill pickle, if using), celery salt, ground black pepper and pinch of cayenne pepper. Mix these ingredients into the chicken, it doesn't have to be perfect, as next, add the mayo/yogurt dressing, and mix further to completely coat all of the chicken. Add the pecans and just fold them through the salad. Serve on whole wheat or white bread. 

 

 Chicken salad on whole wheat bread with a few pecan pieces to top it off ...

Full chicken salad sandwich on whole wheat ...

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WORD HISTORY:

Copious-This word is related to "opulent" and to "copy," words borrowed from French, but with heavy reinforcement by Latin, to "opus" and to "optimum," words borrowed from Latin. "Copious" is really a prefixed word and a suffixed word, with the prefix going back to Indo European "kom" which meant, "beside, near, together," and this gave Latin both "con" and "com," with the idea of "together, with," and the "com-" and "con-" forms sometimes were reduced to "co-." The main part of "copious" goes back to Indo European "op," which had the notion of "perform work, to make or produce;" thus also, "to have the force; that is, the ability to do." This gave Latin "ops," which meant "resources;" thus also, "wealth." With the prefix this produced the Latin noun "copia," meaning "plentiful supply, riches, resources," and this produced the adjective "copiosus,"^ which meant "plentiful, abundant." English borrowed the word in the mid 1300s from Latin.

 

^ The suffix "osus" was used in Latin to convey the notion of the word "having much, being full of, well supplied with, being inclined toward."