Kitchen Aid Chicken Salad

First off, I want to say I hope EVERYONE had a MERRY CHRISTMAS!!! We have already wrapped up Christmas, organized toys, and put mostly everything away until next year ( except the tree- I leave the tree up until Jan 1) and it feels good to start a fresh new year!!! I cannot believe this coming year is the year we will be adding to our sweet family!! I feel so blessed!!

If any of you are like me you want to take a BREAK from the kitchen following Christmas. After all the baking, kneading, appetizer making, and vigorous holiday cooking.. it’s nice to just sort of take a breather. I received an Instant Pot for christmas and I am really excited to use it!! I will be posting some of my recipes I find and try on here as well as on Instagram!! To me- The instant pot and Crock pot are like a total vacation from cooking.. because they do all the work!!!

Today’s Chicken Salad is similar in the fact that you don’t have to do ANY work :) This is a lunch I make on repeat each week so that we can pull it out and munch on it without any fuss. I love to stuff chicken salad on a bed of spinach or on top an Avocado..in between toasted bread!! It just goes a long way and mostly everyone likes it:)! Here is my “ Kitchen Aid” recipe- You can also use a hand mixer too.

Kitchen Aid Chicken Salad

Ingredients:

2 cooked chicken breasts: To further explain- I love to take 2 to 4 chicken breasts and cook them on high in the crock pot prior to “ Chicken salad making day” usually if I am already making a soup that calls for chicken ill throw in some extra breasts to make the salad with. By cooking your chicken in the slow cooker it allows for it to shred SUPER easy therefore giving it that nice texture for chicken salad. 

3 stalks of celery diced

1 apple diced

3 hard boiled eggs

3 tablespoons pickle relish ( or to taste)

Salt & Pepper to taste

1 cup mayo - give or take

1/2 cup mustard - give or take 

Procedure:

Start by placing your cooked chicken in the mixer and turn on the lowest setting..this will shred your chicken. Watch closely because it will shred quickly, do this until you have the consistency you like. ** some people like a pasty chicken salad while others like a little texture**

once your chicken is shredded add your ingredients

MIX IT AGAIN!!! ** lowest setting**

Once everything is mixed up you can season and add to your taste preference.

THATS IT!!! 

y’all its a total game changer making the chicken salad in your Kitchen Aid..I mean I gotta tell ya' I feel like a total princess letting my mixer do all the work!! If you don’t have a Kitchen Aid then you can pull out your handy hand mixer and get the same results!!!

Enjoy y’all!!!