Looking for a healthy chicken salad recipe? This amazing Healthy Curry Chicken Salad is both healthy and delicious! Plus, this is a perfect salad to use up your Leftover Rotisserie Chicken!
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How To Make Curry Chicken Salad Without Mayo
A lot of people are looking for healthy chicken salad recipes without mayo. Often, mayo is what adds flavor to the chicken salad, so it is hard to leave it out completely.
Not so with this delicious Healthy Curry Chicken Salad! Because we have a lot of additional flavor coming from onions, cumin, coriander and turmeric, we can leave out mayo completely, and not even miss it.
This delicious chicken salad recipe shows you that you can make a healthy chicken salad without mayo, and still have a lot of flavor in it.
What Is Curry Chicken Salad?
It is a salad that uses chicken and curry. Curry is a mix of spices, that usually includes cumin, coriander, turmeric, chili powder, and black pepper. Sometimes it includes additional spices.
In this delicious salad we use cumin, coriander, turmeric, chili powder and black pepper instead of premade curry powder, so taht we can control the amount of each spice we use. You can definitely use a premixed Curry Powder in this delicious recipe as well.
What’s In Curry Chicken Salad?
If you are making your own homemade chicken salad, then you are definitely going to want to know what’s in it.
The ingredients for this delicious dish are simple, and the best part of it is that you can use various leftovers in it.
First, you will need chicken, and you don’t even have to make it for this salad! Just use leftovers Rotisserie Chicken or Grilled Chicken Recipe. You can even use leftover turkey, and it will come out pretty delicious.
Then, you will need cooked chickpeas. You can make Instant Pot Chickpeas, that are much easier to make than cooking them on the stovetop. I often use leftover cooked chickpeas after making hummus, so this is another leftover item you can use up!
Other ingredients include white and red onions, cilantro, cumin, coriander, black pepper and chili powder.
Are you looking for a dish without fruit? This salad is it! As you can see from the list of ingredients, this dish does not contain fruit.
How To Make Curry Chicken Salad
Here is how to make this amazingly delicious, healthy curry chicken salad without mayo. Saute white onions, then add the spices. After one minute add the chicken and chickpeas and warm them through for a few minutes.
Next, take the chicken salad off the heat, and once it cools off for a few minutes, add red onions and cilantro. That’s it, your delicious Healthy Curry Chicken Salad is ready to serve!
Are you looking for curry chicken salad no dairy? This delicious salad has no dairy, so make it soon if you are looking for no dairy chicken salad recipes.
What Goes With This Dish?
Lots of dishes can be served with this delicious Curry Chicken Salad. You can serve it as curry chicken salad appetizer, along with other appetizers, such as Blistered Shishito Peppers, Fried Eggplant Appetizer With Tomatoes and Goat Cheese and Smoked Salmon Cucumber Appetizer.
Or, you can serve it as a main dish with Red, White and Blue Potato Salad and Strawberry Salad With Cherries and Blueberries.
More Leftovers Recipes
Everyone loves to use leftovers, instead of just wasting them. Here are other recipes where you can use them:
– Keto Turkey Leftover Casserole With Broccoli, make it with your turkey or chicken!
– Leftover Turkey and Mashed Potatoes Fritters, a great way to use up both Thanksgiving leftover turkey and mashed potatoes.
– Rotisserie Chicken Salad, a fabulous way to use up Rotisserie chicken.
How To Make Curry Chicken Salad Sandwich
Want to make a delicious curry chicken salad sandwich? It is pretty simple to make! First, make this delicious Healthy Curry Chicken Salad. Then, make a sandwich — serve it on bread, lettuce leaves or in a wrap for a delicious curry chicken salad sandwich.
For simple curry chicken salad croissants, use the French Croissants. Cut them into halves lengthwise, and add this delicious Curry Chicken Salad.
For curry chicken salad lettuce wraps, serve this delicious curry chicken salad on lettuce leaves!
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How To Make Healthy Curry Chicken Salad
This amazingly healthy Healthy Curry Chicken Salad is very simple to make, and you can use your leftover chicken and chickpeas to make it! This recipe shows you, step by step, how to make a delicious curry chicken salad with no mayo!
Type of Meal: Dinner, Lunch
Recipe Cuisine: Indian
More Information: Curry Chicken Salad, curry chicken salad no mayo
Special Diets: Gluten Free, Dairy Free, Mayo Free
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook time: 18 minutes
Two Cups of Leftover Rotisserie Chicken, or Leftover Grilled Chicken
3/4 Cups of Cooked Chickpeas
1 Medium White Onion
1/4 of a Small Red Onion
A handful of Chopped Cilantro
A pinch of cumin
A pinch of coriander
A tiny pinch of turmeric
Black Pepper
Chili Powder
Cut chicken into bite sized pieces. Wash and peel the red onion and the white onions. Chop the red onion. Chop the white onions. Wash and chop the cilantro.
Heat up oil in a saute pan. Add white onions and saute for 5 to 8 minutes. Add ground cumin, ground coriander, chili powder and turmeric. Cook for 1 minute. Add chicken and chickpeas and cook until chicken and chickpeas are warmed through, 3 to 5 minutes.
Take the chicken salad off the heat, and let it cook for a few minutes. In a salad bowl combine the chicken mixtures with the raw red onions and cilantro and mix.
Serve Healthy Curry Chicken Salad with Red, White and Blue Potato Salad and Strawberry Salad With Cherries and Blueberries.
this sounds awesome! i stumbled across it from a link in another one of your posts + i’ll definitely be giving it a try. yum!
Amy, thank you, glad you are going to try this Indian style chicken salad! This chicken salad is great – it is tasty and it has ingredients that are good for you, chicken breast, chickpeas, onions.