Low Fat Delicious Waldorf Chicken Salad Recipe

This recipe has become one of mine and my boyfriend’s recent favorites, what with the summer season coming up soon, and the warm weather arriving, we wanted something light and easy for lunches, and I’d had some delicious chicken salad at restaurants that combined similar ingredients, only I could tell they weren’t low fat because of the excessively rich flavor of it. However, with just some minor tweaks, you can make a delicious, low fat and high fiber and nutritional value chicken salad, without even using that much chicken, believe it or not!

This is a waldorf style chicken salad, which means it combines fruits and chicken and mayo basically. I’m going to write the exact recipe I use below so you can duplicate it with delicious results for you yourself or you and your family. For a lunch idea, you can put this chicken salad on a whole wheat pita for an additional 110 calories, or you can put it in a low carb wrap for about an additional 70 calories, depending on which brand of low carb wraps you use.

This also adds more fiber, which means you stay fuller and satisfied longer. By the way, this is a good meal for dieting, because my boyfriend and I have lost 30 pounds collectively so far and this is one of the items we love to eat, so you can feel good about it!

Ok, here’s my recipe for low fat, low calorie, high fiber Waldorf Chicken Salad :

3 chicken breasts, you can marinate them or not, I like to marinate mine overnight in a low fat, low calorie vinegarette dressing for adding juiciness and flavor. I pan fry mine, or you can broil them, whichever way you want is fine.

Let the chicken breasts cool. When cooled, slice and dice them or shred them, whichever you prefer.

I like to use about 1/4 cup of raisins mixed with dried cranberries and white raisins. Sunmaid makes bags of these that are already mixed, and you can use them on salads too, they’re delicious on salads.

1 whole apple. I like to use sweeter apple varieties such as fuji or gala, but you can use whatever apple floats your taste boat. Diced up the apple into small squares. This adds greatly to the fiber content and nutritional value. Remember the saying “An apple a day keeps the doctor away”?

1/2 cup of plain chopped walnuts. I chop mine up in a nut chopper, but you can cut them up into little pieces with a knife too, it’s just a little more time consuming.

3/4 cup of Low Fat Mayonnaise by Hellmans. Make sure it’s the Low fat variety and not the Light, because the Light has more than double the calories and fat in it, and you don’t sacrifice too much taste and flavor by using the Low fat version, because there are so many other flavors in this recipe that make up for it.

1 half red onion, diced small.

Mix this all together until the mayo is thoroughly mixed in with all the other ingredients. It will be a somewhat loose mixture, but it’s still very satisfying and tasty. I also like to add a dash of salt and pepper to mine, but if you’re watching your sodium you can of course skip this part.