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You’ve gotta make this easy Southern Chicken Salad made with canned chicken….hard boiled eggs, relish, celery and mayo.
How to make chicken salad with canned chicken?
I grew up on this canned chicken recipe. There’s something about perfectly hard boiled eggs and canned chicken that’s so comforting and delicious, and it couldn’t be easier to toss together.
Here’s what you need to get started with this canned chicken recipe:
Canned chicken (I use white meat chunked chicken)
Hard boiled eggs
Celery
Relish
Mayo
While I love. love. love a good lemon chicken salad made with whole chicken breast and lemon yogurt, nothing gets me like this southern mayo-based canned chicken recipe.
I like using premium white meat canned chicken in this recipe because it actually makes the salad juicer with less need for mayo.
Yep, this canned chicken recipe = juicy chicken salad thanks to canned chicken!
I’m not a mayo-phobe {it is eggs and oil after all} but I don’t like gobs of it smothering my chicken. Maybe canned chicken is a nostalgic thing for me too since mom always used canned chicken in her chicken salad recipe, it just doesn’t taste right without it.
Gotta have canned chicken for southern chicken salad.
Best way to eat this recipe for canned chicken salad?
We hardly ever make traditional sandwiches with canned chicken salad… instead eat this stuff right out of the bowl with crackers.
So be sure to pair this canned chicken recipe with your favorite snacking crackers, like these Nut-Thins.
And life is better when you eat canned chicken salad right out of the bowl. Dig in.
Make life and meal prep simple with this classic canned chicken salad recipe.
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Southern Chicken Salad {no cook, gluten free}
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Prep Time: 5 mins -
Cook Time: 0 mins
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Total Time: 5 mins
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Yield: 3 servings -
Category: Lunch -
Method: No Cook -
Cuisine: American
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Canned Chicken Salad recipe made Southern-Style….hard boiled eggs, relish, celery and mayo. Make life and meal prep simple with this classic canned chicken recipe.
Ingredients
- 12.5 ounces canned white chunk chicken, drained
- 3 hard boiled eggs, diced
- 1/4 cup diced celery
- 1/4 cup relish
- 3 tablespoons mayo
- salt and pepper to taste
- Artisan Flax Seed Nut Thins
Instructions
- Place all ingredients in a bowl and gently toss together to combine.
- Serve with Artisan Flax Seed Nut Thins
Notes
Note: Nutrition facts do not include crackers
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1/3 recipe
- Calories: 225
- Sugar: 6g
- Sodium: 717mg
- Fat: 9g
- Saturated Fat: 1g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 7g
- Fiber: 0g
- Protein: 26g
- Cholesterol: 156mg
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I like for my chicken to be flaked a little more but the recipe was good. I tweaked it a little bit by adding dill and sweet relish, a little ranch dressing and no mustard.
Just made this for lunch, added a little cayenne pepper, but that is all! Perfect and delicious!
Do you use sweet relish? Your photo looks like bigger chunks of pickles. Do you make it with sweet pickles or dill pickles? Which works better? I’m thinking sweet.
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Either would work! My mom swears by sweet relish.
Thanks for this raspberry salsa recipe! I’ll forward this to a friend who loves all kinds of salsa. Maybe we can have as a weekend snack!
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You’re welcome!!
Love this recipe so delicious…..
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Thanks Barbara!
This looks delicious! Love the addition of eggs in this!
I’ve never used (or seen) canned white chicken, so I’m assuming I can just sub for poached and shredded chicken? I imagine they’re quite similar! X
Yep! You can add in regular chicken breast, but the recipe becomes a bit more dry so you may need more mayo? Or just make sure not to overcook the chicken 🙂
Yep! You can add in poached or shredded chicken breast, but the recipe becomes a bit more dry so you may need more mayo? Or just make sure not to overcook the chicken 🙂
Kristina, I just made this for lunch this week — it’s AWESOME (and I don’t even eat Chicken Salad). I have only had it one other time, and I didn’t like it. This was SO good – filling, light, and quick to make. I used dill relish (I don’t like bread & butter) and Olive Oil and Cracked Pepper Triscuits. SO YUMMY! (And only 8 points on WW, if you’re doing it). Thanks for sharing!
glad you loved it!! thanks for your feedback!
I’ve never had eggs in my chicken salad before, but I’m definitely going to give it a try. Thanks for sharing, Kristina! 😉
It’s shocking to me that so many people haven’t tried eggs in chicken salad– this was our chicken salad staple. I guess it really is a southern thing?
This sounds great. I wasn’t raised on chicken salad like this, but I love the idea of having egg and relish in chicken salad.
I love hearing about regional differences in what we ate growing up. So funny that eggs and relish are “out of the ordinary” for you.
These are hands down our favorite cracker! My husband and I love them… I buy 2 boxes at a time because we go through them so fast. #TrueStory 🙂
OMG–tell me about it. #loveatfirstbite