Chicken Salad with Apples and Cranberries

This tasty chicken salad is filled with flavor. The crunchy apples, cranberries, and nuts make it extra-special. This is an excellent way to use leftover chicken—or make the salad with leftover turkey. A fully cooked rotisserie chicken or convenient fully cooked chicken breast strips may be used as well. Below the recipe, you’ll find basic instructions for cooking chicken breasts on the stovetop.

Serves: 4

Ingredients
2½ cups chopped cooked chicken

3 stalks celery, chopped

1 cup chopped apple (about 1 large; I used a Pink Lady and kept the peel because it was organic)

¼ cup dried cranberries

½ cup nonfat plain Greek yogurt

2 tablespoons Hellman’s light mayonnaise

2 teaspoons lemon juice

2 tablespoons chopped parsley (optional)

Salt and pepper to taste

Instructions
Place the chicken, celery, apple and cranberries in a bowl and stir to combine.

In a small bowl, stir together the yogurt, mayonnaise and lemon juice.

Add to the chicken mixture and stir to mix well.

Stir in the parsley if desired.

Season to taste with salt and pepper.

Cook’s Notes

Nutritional Estimates Per Serving (about 1 cup): 220 calories, 5 g fat, 13 g carbs, 2 g fiber, 28 g protein