Chicken salad

I think this is true, but I don't understand why.

It's so much better tasting and superior in consistency to tuna salad.

Maybe just because tuna is cheaper and easier for salad-making?

r1 That's part of the reason. Many people have a can or two of tuna in the cupboard, so it's a quick, last minute throw-together. A bit of mayo or V&O, S&P, stir it with a fork, Boom! You're done. If you want chicken salad you sorta' have to plan ahead: poach or bake some chicken parts; or remember to get a rotisserie chicken at the supermarket; figure out what else to put in it; chopping, slicing, dicing, et al.

I'm still stuck in the 70's, 80's(?) I like my chicken salad with homemade mayo, a dash of curry powder, some pecans and sliced scallions(or better yet, shallots when making the mayo). Served on a chall-ette, it's one terrific sandwich.

There's an old food standby here in Philly, chicken salad severed with fried oysters. One compliments, and complements, the other: hot, cold, smooth, crispy, tangy, mellow, sweet, briny. Try it some time.

I like chicken salad. My favorite is Chicken, pineapple chunks, toasted almonds, mayo, S&P. simple but delicious. My mom used to make it when I was a kid with left over chicken. I make it now sometimes with leftover chicken other times I bake some especially with it in mind.

Because there are so many other things you can do with chicken. WTF are you supposed to do with canned tuna?

I love chicken salad with raisins, celery and scallions. Mayo and a little dijon mustard. Preferably on a croissant.

*chef's kiss*

So many weird ingredients listed here - celery, red onion, diced tomato and hard boiled eggs with mayo, sandwich spread, sweet relish and a bit of mustard and you're good to go. No nuts, raisins, seafood etc.

Both are garbage.

Chicken salad, tuna salad, egg salad - what's the difference? It's all just different words for mayonnaise!

I don't eat meat anymore, but I would agree a chicken salad is superior to a tuna one. In fact, I don't think I've ever eaten a tuna salad, but chicken salad was quite common when I was growing up as a child.

No raisins, though. Seriously, people who sneak raisins into food deserve the worst punishment imaginable. Eugh!

(^just to be clear, I have eaten tuna before, and I just can't imagine it going as well with salad. It's too overpowering.)

[quote] Both are garbage.

I make them with ranch dressing instead of mayonnaise and it's really good

If you like savory get your chicken salad at Kroger's deli. With grapes or without. Salteen crackers. Delicious.

Just shut the fuck up.

I love it. I make a curry chicken salad with golden raisins and apple that I love. I also make one with slivered almonds, fresh thyme, and raisins that's delicious. I put some onion and celery in both, and add a tablespoon or so of brown mustard to the thyme one. I use half plain yogurt and half mayonnaise. Both are great summer salads.

i prefer to make my own versus buying pre=made at store or ordering at restaurant. Tunas salad, I'm less stringent. No reasoning, actually

OP's idea of what heaven must be like:

Nobody says “tuna salad.” Its “tuna fish.”

Chicken salad and a slice of tomato on a toasted onion bagel.

I love a good chicken salad. Rare to find in the wild unless you're willing to pay a ridiculous amount for it. I make my own whenever I can.

R18 yum!

There used to be a shop on Greenwich Street (I think) called Taylor's, that made the best chicken salad. It was mayonnaise-based (maybe some sour cream) and it had grapes, sliced almonds, and plenty of fresh dill.

When I make it, I poach bone-in/skin-on chicken breasts. I remove them from the poaching liquid when they've just cooked through, and when they're cool enough, I tear them apart by hand to create random shreds and chunks.

I mix that with either a mustardy vinaigrette or a mixture of sour cream and mayo. Any of these things could be added: curry powder (tempered in hot oil) and mango chutney, grapes, scallions, dill, tarragon, basil, thyme, garlic, red peppers (roasted or raw), celery, different nuts.

R14 = shots fired with that raisin talk!

The best chicken salad recipe I've had is one with Craisins and fresh tarragon. Tastes like Thanksgiving but it's very good.

I live a couple of blocks away from a Chicken Salad Chick. It's pretty good.

Did you hear that Subway is being sued for their tuna sandwiches not containing tuna, or really any fish at all?

Before the "only white meat" dogmatists flood onto this thread, let me insist that chicken salad should have some dark meat.

I enjoy grapes or chunked apple in chicken salad, but I draw the line at raisins.

c r a i s i n s

Always prefer chicken salad (not too herby, and no fruit; just salt and pepper and good chicken)—although will admit to [italic]loving[/italic] (and recently making) my mom's old tuna melt, From some long-ago NYC luncheonette when she was a teenager.: a toasted English muffin, topped with tuna salad, a ring of canned pineapple (trash), and a slice of American, all warmed under the broiler. It's amazing.

I prefer shrimp salad

My rankings:

1) Shrimp salad

2) Lobster salad

3) Ham salad

4) Chicken salad

I love it when you hold the chicken salad between your knees.

No fruit in chicken salad. Yuck.

Try it in an avocado half!😋

More babes, I’m learning from you.

Curried chicken salad. Yum.

[quote] Nobody says “tuna salad.” Its “tuna fish.”

Depends where you grew up. "Tuna fish" sounds redundant to me.

Yes, curry powder (yellow) is a really good addition to chicken salad. Along with mayo, onion, celery, and salt.

Where are you heathens getting this ham salad. Gross!

Ham salad is a southern thing and not actually made from ham. It's shredded baloney with mayo and pickle relish. I grew up in the south and wouldn't touch the stuff.

Emmy calls it bologna salad but it's the same thing.

I want to know who these people are who keep putting raisins in their salads... so I can make sure I never accept an invitation to eat at your house.

[quote]I want to know who these people are who keep putting raisins in their salads... so I can make sure I never accept an invitation to eat at your house.

I don't mind eating raisins, but I don't put them in food I'm serving to company. Lots of people dislike them. Also: mushrooms, raw onions, jalapenos, hard-boiled eggs.

IMO, raisins are OK if you make the salad mixture and serve it right away, when the raisins are still dry and chewy. But raisins will eventually soak up a lot of moisture and have an "old grape" texture & flavor. Don't know if craisins do the same thing.

I don't like raisins in baked goods b/c of how they plump up and are like grapes again.

r29=Dr. Jonathan Newman

Whole Foods' recipe for Sonoma Chicken Salad is good. I've never bought it at the store -- just made it using their recipe.

I'm having the one I made a couple of days ago for dinner tonight. I use chicken tenders so the meat is really tender. I just add mayo, celery and shallot. That's it. I get at least 4 portions out of that pack of tenders. A few crackers and boom, I have a meal. Actually I had planned on making ribs tonight but when I opened them to let them to let the salt sink in a little they stunk to the high heavens. Heritage pork from my food coop that I paid so much for and they were spoiled rotten, btw, still had almost a week to go on the expiration date. I called. They are going to return my money on my next order. They offered very quickly. I have a feeling I'm not the only one who complained about rotten ribs in the last few days.

[Quote]Nobody says “tuna salad.” Its “tuna fish.”

Do you also say salmon fish? What about halibut fish? Thought not.

Where I come (northeast) from "ham salad" is actual ham salad, not made with bologna. You make it with ham the same way you make chicken salad.

I make it with diced apple, halved craisins, and almond slivers.

OP is just one of those "quarter a thread" cunts here who declares something to stimulate outrage or commiseration.

No one disrespects chicken salad. And chicken salad in its many fine forms has nothing to do with tuna salad except a similar name

Cunt.

Please don't say "cunt" and "tuna" in the same post.

All you really need is mayo and chicken breast. A little dijon mustard, celery & onions (preferable green) are recommended. The only acceptable fruit is some diced apple.

Yeah, no comparison between canned tuna salad sandwich & "fresh" chicken salad. I like both, but I don't have the same expectations for them.

There is an Italian deli in Chicago called L'Appetito that has the best chicken salad on earth! They used to be in the basement of the Hancock building, but now they're at the corner of Huron and Wabash. They have a couple of other locations, but alas, the one in Boystown is closed.

Lobster salad

Tuna salad

Egg salad

Chicken salad

That's the hierarchy bitches!

Simply Sara has a recipe for bologna salad. I had to watch it through my fingers, like a horror movie.

The secret to good chicken salad is adding fresh lemon juice in the bowl.

I love chicken salad!

Tuna salad = perfect meal if you have four legs, a tail & whiskers.

r16 The female figure in that logo reminds me of one of the "Debbies" from the animated series 'The Oblongs.'

r4 Salade Nicoise

Tuna croquettes

Tuna Marinara, as a sauce for pasta.

Stuffed peppers: rice, tuna, sautéed vegetables, cheese, thin tomato sauce.

Tuna Melt

That oughta' help you fill up your monthly menu planner.

The Barefoot Contessa used to charge $24.99 for a half pound of her chicken salad.

Was it good chicken salad?

Yes, it was a good chicken salad made with good mayonnaise.

Before I became a vegetarian I used to like Coronation chicken sandwiches.

[quote] Ham salad is a southern thing and not actually made from ham. It's shredded baloney with mayo and pickle relish. I grew up in the south and wouldn't touch the stuff.

I was born and raised in the south. Ham salad is made with ham. I’ve never had bologna salad. I had never even heard of it; until someone posted that Simply Sarah recipe.

[quote] Ham salad is a traditional Anglo-American salad. Ham salad resembles chicken salad, egg salad, and tuna salad (as well as starch-based salads like potato salad, macaroni salad, and pea salad): the primary ingredient, ham, is mixed with smaller amounts of chopped vegetables or relishes, and the whole is bound with liberal amounts of a mayonnaise,[1] salad cream, or other similar style of salad dressing, such as Miracle Whip.[2]

Last time we had the chicken salad discussion, I naively posted my favorite chicken salad recipe which is Pioneer Woman's.

I was not prepared for the vitriol spewed my direction because the recipe includes brown sugar.

Lesson learned and your loss DL, it's really good and sounds similar to what r21 mentions with sour cream.

Miss Leslie Jordan has been singing the praises of chicken salad on his viral Instagram lockdown videos for the past year.

He seems too use a lot of hard boiled egg in his, which makes it look like some chicken salad/egg salad Frankenstein hybrid.

He also adds a touch of pickle juice (the bread and butter variety).

I don’t like mixing chicken with eggs.

The chicken salad at the Neiman Marcus cafes is REALLY good.

You can go to any upscale super market like Sprouts and find chilled prepared pulled chicken, likely from rotisserie they roasted previously. Just add ayo, carrot and apple shards.

Onion, celery, halved white grapes, walnuts.

I wouldn't say chicken salad gets less respect than tuna salad. I've never seen a chain restaurant devoted exclusively to tuna salad.

Chicken, cucumber, celery, green onion, dill, parsley, mayo, lemon.

But never like what is pictured in R71. Only made with roast chicken cut into pieces, not that weird mash.

R71, that’s my go-to order there as well. The Buffalo Barclay and True Blue Betty are good as well.

Also, for the life of me, I will never understand the obsession that people have with adding sweet things to their chicken salad. Raisins, grapes, apples, nuts—talk about a vomit-inducing abomination.

Chicken salad always has those nasty gristley bits hidden by Mayo.

R74, I don't mind the fruity ones. If I get one, it's usually the one with grapes, apples and pineapples. Or the one with dried cranberries and almonds. They used to have one with pineapples and macadamia nuts that I really liked too. But I prefer the savory ones.

I broil/roast two large bone-in breasts, lately a favorite being those rubbed with a honey-bbq spice mix in the store so they've sort of marinated by the time you cook 'em. There are no gristley bits if you cut or tear the meat up yourself when it cools. I like it curried, I love it curried with golden raisins and apples, and I like it with grapes, too, but usually it's just the chicken, some lemon juice, some finely chopped celery, a little celery salt and of course, Hellman's mayonnaise.

Served on a toasted brioche roll with some greens, a slice of tomato and a couple of strips of crisp bacon - it's heaven in your hands.

[quote] Chicken salad always has those nasty gristley bits hidden by Mayo.

Not if you make it yourself. Hopefully, you wouldn't put cartilage, gristle, etc., in your own chicken salad.

r59 Don't forget Tuna Montezuma!

DL Icon Simply Sara says "yes!" to grapes AND pecans in the chicken salad!