Best vegan Chicken Salad recipe with creamy dressing

This Vegan Chicken Salad recipe is made with plant-based chicken, a delicious creamy dressing, and amazing ingredients that make it truly the best chicken salad recipe you’ve ever had. Once you give it a try, you know this is the only easy chicken recipe that you will make at home on repeat.

Why this is the most delicious vegan Chicken Salad recipe

You might think this stupid guy (me) comes around with a chicken salad. When it is a fact that you can find hundreds of other recipes on the internet, but this is my vegan version and seriously the most amazing.

The creamy dressing is simply the best: usually, I would use a vegan mayonnaise, because yes I love it as in my Crack Chicken, the Onion Rings, or Popcorn Salad every time. Therefore this time I use a combination of mayo and yoghurt. The result is super creamy, fresh, and rich and I can vouch it really makes such a big difference, friends.

What I bring you is not your traditional chicken salad that you have made over and over again. Instead, I’ll show you the twists of my favorite way to make it.

Flavors are well-balanced from fresh, savory, and sweet that you have in any and each bite.

My Chicken Salad is a really versatile recipe you can serve this up as a chicken salad sandwich, wrap, or with my Easy Pasta Salad or Chickpea Salad.

What you need for this vegan Chicken Salad recipe

I keep everything as simple as it gets and at the same time, I can’t resist and add for flavor celery and green onions. Here are the other ingredients that you will need.

Vegan Chicken: I cooked and then shredded my chicken before and have it ready. For shredding I do this with my hands: I pull the chicken roughly apart, which can be also done with a fork. As an alternative, you can simply chop it as well and save a good amount of time. It doesn’t even need to cool off. Or simply use vegan chicken strips.

Red grapes add an amazing sweetness and texture to the salad.

Pecan nuts: I find pecans most delicious for their nutty and amazing flavor. Almonds and walnuts will work great as well.

Chicken Salad Dressing

In my opinion, a dressing is what makes any salad. As you know from my Thousand Island Dressing, Ranch Dressing, Italian Dressing, or Catalina Dressing and for the Chicken Salad it will not disappoint you. I add a lot of good ingredients:

Mayo and yogurt make everything so creamy, fresh, rich and delicious.

Chives and parsley: I find this is the perfect flavor combination for freshness. You can use other herbs like tarragon or rosemary.

Finally, I add lemon juice and mustard for a little bit of acidity.

How to make Chicken Salad

Prepare the Dressing

In a small bowl combine mayo, lemon juice, yoghurt, mustard, chives, parsley, and lemon juice.

Season with a pinch of salt and black pepper. Mix everything until smooth.

Prepare the salad

In a large bowl combine chicken, grapes, celery, pecans, and green onions.

Finally, add prepared dressing to it mix, and enjoy.

Leftovers of the vegan Chicken Salad can be stored in the fridge for 4-5 days after transferring it to an airtight container. The next day, the flavors will be even more delicious.

Freezing is not recommended. Instead, this salad is a great way for also making sandwiches, wraps and so much more. This way you won’t have a hard time making something delicious out of it.

Other Chicken Recipes to try

All vegan recipes listed here are made with plant-based ingredients but use whatever you want and like (I’m not judging 😊):

• Chicken Nachos
• Chicken and Rice Casserole
• Butter Chicken
• Chicken a la King
• Chicken Broccoli Casserole

Try the Chicken Salad and you know this is great no matter what are you going to serve it up with.

Let me know what you think on Instagram or Facebook.

Enjoy, Florian.