Chicken and Fruit Salad
From grandmacooks 15 years ago
- - to make
- Serves 6
This is another one from the old Sunset salad book from 1975, It is falling apart and the price tag, still on the cover, says $2.20! Now that the weather has gotten so hot, it seemed like time to bring out the main dish cold salad recipes!
Ingredients
- 2 1/2 - 3 cups cooked chicken, diced (3/4 inch cubes) shopping list
- 1 cup sliced celery shopping list
- 2 Tbsp chopped green onion shopping list
- 1 tsp salt shopping list
- 2 Tbsp lemon juice shopping list
- 11 ounce can mandarin oranges, drained shopping list
- 9 ounce (approx) can pineapple chunks, drained shopping list
- 1/2 cup toasted slivered almonds shopping list
- 1/2 cup mayonnaise shopping list
- 1/2 tsp grated lemon peel shopping list
- salad greens (your choice) to line serving bowl shopping list
How to make it
- Combine chicken chunks, celery slices, and the chopped green onion.
- Mix in salt and lemon juice and cover and chill until serving time.
- Just before you get ready to eat, add most of the oranges, the pineapple, and the almonds.
- Stir the lemon peel into the mayonnaise, then carefully dress your salad with it, being careful not to break up the fruit.
- Line a bowl with the greens you have chosen.
- Spoon salad carefully over the greens.
- Garnish with the oranges you kept back.
- Serve immediately.
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interesting delicous{Love those old old cookbooks thanks
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