Nutty Chicken Salad
Nutty Chicken Salad is a gluten free, dairy free, and whole 30 hor d'oeuvre. This recipe makes 10 servings with 182 calories, 12g of protein, and 11g of fat each. This recipe covers 11% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. This recipe from Allrecipes requires almonds, mayonnaise, onion, and eggs. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes approximately 1 hour and 25 minutes. Nutty chicken grain salad, Nutty chicken with noodle salad, and Nutty Orange Chicken Salad are very similar to this recipe.
Instructions
Over medium-high heat, bring a medium pot of lightly salted water to boil.
Add chicken, celery, a slice of the onion, and garlic. Reduce heat to medium and simmer for 1 hour.
Chop remaining onion and set aside.
Place egg in a saucepan and cover with cold water. Bring water to a boil and immediately remove from heat. Cover and let eggs stand in hot water for 10 to 12 minutes.
Remove from hot water, cool, peel and chop.
Drain chicken, discarding boiled vegetables. Chop chicken when cool.
In a medium bowl, mix the apple, onion, pickles, almond and salt, if desired.
Add black and red pepper to taste. Stir in enough mayonnaise until the mixture sticks together well.
Cover a serving dish with lettuce leaves. Mound the chicken salad in the middle, and sprinkle with additional almonds, if desired.
Recommended wine: Sparkling Wine, Sparkling Rose
Antipasti works really well with Sparkling Wine and Sparkling rosé. If you're serving a selection of appetizers, you can't go wrong with these. Both are very food friendly and complement a variety of flavors. One wine you could try is Ruinart Brut rosé ( half-bottle). It has 5 out of 5 stars and a bottle costs about 56 dollars.
Ruinart Brut Rose ( half-bottle)
*There was a packaging change on this wine. The label pictured may not be the label received.*The wine is a brilliant orange-yellow rose petal colour with a very fine, profuse and sustained mousse. The nose is characterized by small red berries, mainly currant. On the palate the wine is vigorous and well balanced. A fine, fresh, fruity wine with well-integrated tannins and a hint of spice on the lengthy finish.Ruinart Rosé is produced from a blend of 55% Pinot Noir and 45% Chardonnay from the best of recent vintages. All of the fruit is from premiers crus vineyards. Grapes from the estate vineyards in Sillery and Brimont (ancestral home of the Ruinart family) are joined by carefully selected grapes from other premiers crus vineyards in the Côte de Blancs and the Montagne de Reims. The grapes for Ruinart are selected basket by basket at the source, and only the finest premiers crus are used.