This cranberry chicken salad sandwich recipe is a simple & delicious lunch that you can make for your family. It is very easy to make and takes only a few minutes to prepare. This recipe only uses chicken, celery, dried cranberries, mayonnaise and a little salt & pepper. Your family will love it. We often use this chicken salad recipe as the main ingredient for our lunchtime sandwiches. Chicken salad sandwiches taste great with many different kinds of homemade breads such as oatmeal bread, raisin bread, French bread, whole wheat bread, etc.
Cranberry Chicken Salad Sandwich
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Cranberry Chicken Salad Sandwich Recipe – Ingredients
- 1 1/2 Cups – Cooked Chicken Breast (Diced) – The chicken should be cold.
- 1/2 Cup – Celery (Sliced)
- 2 Tablespoons – Dried Cranberries
- 1/2 Cup – Mayonnaise
- 1/4 Teaspoon – Salt (optional)
- 1/4 Teaspoon – Black Pepper (optional)
FYI – The chicken salad listed above can generally be used with 8 slices of your favorite homemade bread to create 4 chicken salad sandwiches.
Cut up the chicken into small bits
Cranberry Chicken Salad Sandwich Recipe – Instructions
- Prep Time – 10 minutes
- Cook Time – 10 minutes
- Use pre-cooked chicken breast. FYI – The cooked chicken should be cold (at refrigerator-level temperatures). The chicken should not be warm.
- Dice the cooked chicken into small chunks.
- Wash the celery.
- Slice the celery into small bits.
- Add the chicken, celery and cranberries into a large mixing bowl.
- Add the salt and black pepper.
- Mix in the mayonnaise with other ingredients.
- Spread the resulting chicken salad onto your favorite homemade bread to make a great sandwich!
Celery – To give some crunch to the chicken salad
Toss in some tasty dried cranberries
Tips – Cranberry Chicken Salad Sandwich
- Instead of cooking some chicken breast at home, you can also use some store bought oven-roasted chicken or turkey.
- Don’t add hot (just cooked) chicken to the salad as it disrupts the mayonnaise. You want the cooked chicken to be chilled (refrigerator temperature) when making the chicken salad.
- Add more mayonnaise to this recipe if you want a “creamier” (mayo-ier?) chicken salad.
- If you want things even crunchier, you can add some iceberg-type lettuce to your sandwich.
- Use your favorite homemade bread to make this sandwich. Chicken salad tastes great on white bread, whole wheat bread, multigrain bread, cranberry walnut bread, French bread, etc.
- For more great sandwich ideas, please visit our page focused on the best sandwich recipes from around the web. Or visit Bread Dad’s section on sandwich & panini cookbooks.
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Reference Sources
- Wikipedia, Bread Machine, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_machine
- Wikipedia, Chicken Salad, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_salad
- Wikipedia, Cranberry, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cranberry
- Wikipedia, Sandwich, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandwich
Cranberry Chicken Salad Sandwich Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 Cups Cooked Chicken Breast (Diced)
- 1/2 Cup Celery (Sliced)
- 2 Tablespoons Dried Cranberries
- 1/2 Cup Mayonnaise
- 1/4 Teaspoon Salt Optional
- 1/4 Teaspoon Black Pepper Optional
- 8 Slices Your favorite home made bread machine bread
Instructions
- Use pre-cooked chicken breast. FYI – The cooked chicken should be cold (at refrigerator-level temperatures). The chicken should not be warm.
- Dice the cooked chicken into small chunks.
- Wash the celery.
- Slice the celery into small bits.
- Add the chicken, celery and cranberries into a large mixing bowl.
- Add the salt and black pepper. Optional.
- Mix in the mayonnaise with other ingredients.
- Spread resulting chicken salad onto your favorite home made bread to make a great sandwich!
Notes
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