Cranberry Chicken Salad Sandwich Recipe

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, French bread, whole wheat bread, etc.

Cranberry Chicken Salad Sandwich

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Ingredients – Cranberry Chicken Salad Sandwich Recipe

• 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 in order to create 4 chicken salad sandwiches.

Cut up the chicken into small bits

Instructions – Cranberry Chicken Salad Sandwich Recipe

• 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 hot.
• 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!

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Celery – To give some crunch to the chicken salad

Toss in some tasty dried cranberries

Tips – Cranberry Chicken Salad Sandwich

• The tips below are designed to help sandwich & bread-making “novices”. Intermediate and advanced sandwich & bread makers probably know most of these tips.
• Click on my “print recipe” link if you want to print out this recipe. It includes all of the recipe’s ingredients and instructions. However, the recipe print function does not include my tips section. Please read the tips section in order to avoid common recipe problems.

• Do not 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.
• Optional – Add more mayonnaise to this recipe if you want a “creamier” chicken salad.
• Optional – Instead of cooking some chicken breast at home, you can also use some store bought oven-roasted chicken or turkey.
• Optional – Beyond dried cranberries & celery, other common additions to chicken salad are chopped walnuts, sunflower seeds, finely diced green peppers, etc.
• Optional – If you want things even crunchier, you can add some iceberg-type lettuce to your sandwich.
• Visitors – What “extras” do you like to add to your chicken salad? Dried fruit? Celery? Seeds? Apple slices? Pickles? Other? Please post your chicken salad variations & tips in the comment section below.

• Sandwiches taste even better with fresh homemade bread. Much tastier than most commercial packaged sliced bread. Also you know what is going into your homemade bread (so it is easier to screen out strange chemicals and preservatives).
• If you are looking for homemade bread ideas, you might like to try one of Bread Dad’s bread recipes. You will find recipes such as super soft white bread, whole wheat bread, multigrain bread, French bread, etc.
• Visitors – What type of bread do you like to use for your family’s chicken salad sandwiches? Sliced white bread? Whole wheat bread? French bread? Rolls? Other? Please post your chicken salad sandwich bread suggestions in the comment section below.

• Always use fresh ingredients for the best sandwiches. Using dried-out meats, stale bread and/or wilted vegetables will negatively impact the quality of your sandwiches.
• You can always make a sandwich recipe even better by adding a “pinch” of your family’s favorite herbs & spices (such as cilantro, black pepper, red pepper flakes, rosemary, basil, etc.).
• For more great sandwich ideas, please visit Bread Dad’s pages focused on hot & toasty Panini Recipes and Popular Sandwich Recipes.

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Reference Sources

1. Wikipedia, Bread Machine
2. Wikipedia, Chicken Salad
3. Wikipedia, Cranberry
4. Wikipedia, Sandwich

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Cranberry Chicken Salad Sandwich Recipe

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. Use your favorite home made bread to turn this chicken salad into a great lunch sandwich. Your family will love it. Visit BreadF=Da.com for more great bread & sandwich recipes.

Prep Time10 minutes mins

Cook Time10 minutes mins

Total Time20 minutes mins

Course: Dinner, Lunch, Sandwich

Cuisine: American

Keyword: chicken cranberry salad sandwich, chicken salad, chicken salad cranberries, chicken salad recipe, chicken salad sandwich, chicken salad sandwich recipe, Cranberry Chicken Salad Sandwich, Cranberry Chicken Salad Sandwich Recipe

Servings: 4 People

Author: Bread Dad

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 hot.
• 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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