Southwestern Chicken Salad is a super-simple family favorite way to use rotisserie chicken that makes absolutely awesome sandwiches. I used an entire medium rotisserie chicken from Walmart minus the leg meat. Yeah, that part got eaten right away. I think most rotisserie chickens will come in between 3 and 4 cups of meat when you take the meat off the bone and dice it. It’s very easy to just increase or decrease the amount of mayonnaise, salsa, and chiles to adapt to the amount of chicken. This is just a brain-dead simple recipe.
What you see in the photo is actually 2 halves of an open-faced sandwich – you can see the chicken salad better that way. I put the 2 halves together to eat it, and of course, the chicken started falling out the side since it was piled so high. It was still yummy. For the salsa, I used Casa Sanchez Mild Salsa Roja (at most grocery stores) and built my sandwich on cranberry walnut bread… yum!
Enjoy! This one’s a keeper!
- 3 cups diced cooked chicken
- ½ cup mayonnaise
- ½ cup fresh salsa
- ¼ cup diced green chiles
- 1 cup finely diced celery (about 2 stalks)
- ½ cup chopped black olives
- Dump the chicken in a large bowl.
- In a medium bowl, blend the mayonnaise, salsa, and green chiles. Pour over the chicken and mix well.
- Stir in the celery and olives.
- Serve in a sandwich or on lettuce as a main course salad.
- Enjoy!
Southwestern Chicken Salad is a super-simple family favorite way to use rotisserie chicken that makes absolutely awesome sandwiches. I used an entire medium rotisserie chicken from Walmart minus the leg meat. Yeah, that part got eaten right away. I think most rotisserie chickens will come in between 3 and 4 cups of meat when you take the meat off the bone and dice it. It's very easy to just increase or decrease the amount of mayonnaise, salsa, and chiles to adapt to the amount of chicken. This is just a brain-dead simple recipe.
What you see in the photo is actually 2 halves of an open-faced sandwich - you can see the chicken salad better that way. I put the 2 halves together to eat it, and of course, the chicken started falling out the side since it was piled so high. It was still yummy. For the salsa, I used Casa Sanchez Mild Salsa Roja (at most grocery stores) and built my sandwich on cranberry walnut bread... yum!
Enjoy! This one's a keeper!
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