Chicken Salad..

[norgeway]

This hot weather and my new schedule at work"2nd shift...I HATE IT" has got me making up some cold dishes we can have in the fridge, I made macaroni salad, and now am making chicken salad..first I got out the 1958 Sears stainless Maid Of Honor pressure cooker, and cooked a 3 pound bag of frozen boneless skinless chicken breasts..about 45 minutes, since they came out of the freezer....

 

[norgeway]

Now...

This is one of those things I never measure...First as the chicken cooks, I chopped 1 big onion...

 

[norgeway]

Then...

I chopped 1 bunch of celery...

 

[norgeway]

NEXT..

I reduced the pressure gradually, then removed and chopped the chicken..

 

[norgeway]

Then...two good old Southern ingredients..

1 jar of Mt Olive sweet salad cubes, and a liberal amount of Dukes mayo..

 

[norgeway]

Then...

Add a good twist of pepper, and salt to taste..mix it all up!

 

[norgeway]

I added a little vinegar..

Just to give it a bite, then packed it into my trusty ancient Tupperware, and put it in the fridge to chill.

 

[norgeway]

One thing I NEVER put in it!

Nasty old boiled eggs!!LOL

 

[wayupnorth]

No boiled egg. I add more from the spice cabinet but love Mt. Olive and dont have Duke's mayo here but use mayo in mine. Celery and onion, definitely in mine. Yum! I think I have one of those big, green Tupperware bowl somewhere that was my mothers.

 

[michaelman2]

Hans, I love this recipe...I am enroute...lol

 

[danemodsandy]

Pretty Similar....

....To mine. The difference is, I don't use the sweet salad cubes or any pickle relish of any kind. Just chicken, onion, celery, mayo, salt and pepper.

Tuna salad, the same thing.

 

[danemodsandy]

P.S., Hans:

If you dislike eggs, you would be fit to be tied at my egg salad:

Eggs, onion, chopped stuffed green olives, mayo, salt and pepper.

On pumpernickel.

Uh, YUM.

 

[tomturbomatic]

I love chicken salad!

They are running ads for Duke's mayo on TV here so I guess some store sells it. I think of you when I hear the ads.

I have one point about the celery. When I am making a cold salad that is going to be eaten over a period of more than one meal, I blanch the celery. I read that it is a food service requirement for celery that is served raw. I chop it then dunk it in boiling water then cold and then drain. Maybe the vinegar you added obviates the need to blanch, but I do this to be sure that nothing contaminates the salad.

Second shift does ruin supper plans, doesn't it?

 

[NYCWriter]

Wait ...

... you put chicken salad in the Tupperware lettuce crisper??



I'm not a big mayo fan -- but I do enjoy a good chicken or tuna salad, particularly on a hot day. I use Whole Foods' organic brand of mayonaise.

AND I put hard-boiled eggs in my salad ... with just some Himalayan pink salt, pepper, and dill.

 

[danemodsandy]

Forget....

....Pentagrams, black Sabbaths and ritual sacrifices -

It's second and third shifts that are the work of Satanic cults.

 

[norgeway]

I love third!

Ive worked 3rd 17 years!!!

 

[ken]

Hans

Im with you on no eggs.

 

[alr2903]

If you want  a little Cajun twist, add a capful of Zatarain's crab boil to the Pressure cooker. I do not blanch the celery or onions.  One little trick is to have your seasoning chopped and ready in a casserole dish.  After draining your chicken well plop the unchopped pieces red hot on the bed of seasoning. This "sweats" the onion and celery, yet they still have crunch. When cool enough to chop the "sweating" is complete. Chop the chicken and follow Norgeway's recipe. I usually boil 4 eggs and chop them but leave them on the side in another bowl. Then those that want egg can add it.  I do not care for boiled egg in chicken salad either. We only buy "Blue Plate Mayo"  my partner's mother swore by "Blue Plate".  I think it is the only brand he is loyal to.

 

 

 

 

 

[norgeway]

Blue Plate and JFG

Are very much like Dukes...I dont care for Hellmans or Kraft....But, as with most things, it depends on what you grew up with. For example, I wouldnt dream of drinking un sweetened tea...but above the Mason Dixon line, most drink unsweetened.

 

[revvinkevin]

1 jar of Mt Olive sweet salad cubes and.....

 

Hans, what are "sweet salad cubes"?   Is it diced up sweet pickles?

 

Thanks!

Kevin