Chicken Waldorf Salad is tender chunks of chicken mixed with celery, grapes, apples, toasted walnuts, and mayonnaise. This delectable recipe is one of our favorite chicken salad recipes. You can serve it on a bed of spring greens, stuffed in a sun-ripened tomato, or stuffed in a whole wheat pita.
The Best Waldorf Chicken Salad
This refreshing and healthy Chicken Waldorf Salad with Grapes is perfect for a light lunch or a delicious side dish. Made with juicy grapes, crisp apples, tender chicken, and crunchy nuts, this easy recipe is full of flavor and texture. It is scrumptious, easy, quick to come together, and fancy enough for company. This delectable salad comes together in about ten to fifteen minutes. This recipe calls for already cooked rotisserie chicken, which can be purchased at almost any grocery store or club warehouse, such as Costco or Sams.
Chicken Waldorf Salad Ingredients
For this recipe, you need an apple, lemon juice, cooked chicken, celery, red seedless grapes, toasted walnuts, mayonnaise, salt, and freshly ground black pepper.
How do you make Chicken Waldorf Salad?
First, grab a large bowl for mixing. Cut the chicken, celery, and grapes. Toast the walnuts in the oven for about five to seven minutes. Cut the apples and toss with the lemon juice in the bowl. Add the chicken, celery, grapes, toasted walnuts, and mayo to the bowl and stir to combine. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Serve over leaf lettuce, a thin bed of spring greens, or with crackers.
Variations for Chicken Waldorf Salad.
- If you don’t like walnuts or have them on hand, use other nuts, such as toasted pecans or sliced or slivered toasted almonds.
- Are you looking for a lighter version of Chicken Waldorf Salad? Substitute half of the mayo with non-fat Greek yogurt.
- Do you want to dress it up even more? Add half a cup of dried cranberries or dried cherries.
- Do you want to sweeten it up a little bit? Add two tablespoons of honey.
- Want to make a wrap or a sandwich with the chicken salad? It is delicious on pumpernickel, rye, or European whole grain.
- You can substitute seedless green grapes for the seedless red grapes.
- You can use any crisp apple like Granny Smith, Cripps Sweet, Fuji, Honeycrisp, or Gala.
Can you substitute poached chicken in Chicken Waldorf Salad?
Yes, you most certainly can. Add a couple of boneless skinless chicken breasts to a pot, cover up halfway with chicken broth, and add parsley, a small stalk of celery, a little piece of onion, and a clove of garlic. Bring to a boil, then turn to simmer. Simmer uncovered for 5 minutes. Remove from heat and cover for fifteen minutes. Now, remove the chicken breasts from the chicken broth, and you can cube or shred the chicken and use it in this salad and other salads.
This amazing salad is easy, quick to fix, delectable and dependable. Put the ingredients on your shopping list today, and let me know what you think!
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Chicken Waldorf Salad Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 Granny Smith apple cored peeled and diced
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice
- 2 cups chopped rotisserie chicken
- 2 stalks celery chopped
- 1 cup red seedless grapes halved
- 1/2 cup walnuts toasted and chopped
- 2/3 cup mayonnaise
- Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
Instructions
- In a bowl, combine the apple and lemon juice. Add chicken, celery, grapes, toasted walnuts and mayonnaise. Stir to combine. Season with salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste.
- Serve on a bed of spring greens or leaf lettuce.
Notes
- Don't like walnuts or have them on hand. Use other nuts like toasted pecans or sliced or slivered toasted almonds.
- Are you looking for a lighter version of Chicken Waldorf Salad? Substitute half of the mayo with non-fat Greek yogurt.
- Do you want to dress it up even a little more? Add one-half cup of dried cranberries or dried cherries.
- Do you want to sweeten it up a little bit? Add two tablespoons of honey.
- Want to make a wrap or a sandwich with the chicken salad? It is delicious on pumpernickel, rye, or European whole grain.
- You can substitute seedless green grapes for the seedless red grapes.
- You can use any kind of crisp apple like Granny Smith, Cripps Sweet, Fuji, Honeycrisp, or Gala.
- Store leftovers in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 3 days.
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Nikita
Great flavors and textures in this refreshing and delightful salad. I will definitely be making this again for my family. They really enjoyed it!
Justina
My favorite chicken salad recipe! Love that sweet and savory combo, and the crunch from the apples is next level.
Cara
Chicken Waldorf Salad is a refreshing and satisfying dish that never fails to please. Thanks for the great recipe!
Shelby Martinez
Love this super tasty take on a classic salad. So much texture and flavor!
Beth Pierce
Thank you, Shelby!
Harriet Young
Really good, creamy, and a complete meal in itself. Delicious, thanks!
Beth Pierce
My pleasure, Harriet!
Tanya
I use pecans instead of the walnuts and red-skinned apples – don’t peel the apples. Looks pretty, especially if you use green grapes. I use mayo/greek yogurt for the dressing. Delicious and great for picnics!
Beth Pierce
Thanks for the tips, Tanya!
Cathu
Me too..Pecans and red apples. And sometimes a little curry powder!
Barbara Setterdahl
I’ve made this a lad and added a dash of curry powder. Very tasty.
Beth Pierce
Yes indeed!
Tara
This will be good for my husband’s lunch. I will be making this soon.
Judy
You can also add chili Mac noodles or elbows
Erin
This needs to happen at my house very soon!!
Chrissie
This is pretty cool recipe, looks so fresh. Thanks for posting a recipe like this. I will love it for sure.
Catalina
My favorite salad! I should try this recipe too! This Chicken Waldorf Salad looks so inviting!
Michelle
Love the Waldorf salad. I really like your variation to use some Greek yogurt instead of the mayo.
Sara
What a light and refreshing salad! Love how easily it comes together and is great on a hot afternoon! Delish!
Demeter
I love how little effort this takes but offers so much flavor! Such a great option when you’re short on time.
Billy
Always classic and so delicious!
Taylor
Ones of my favorites! Love how simple and delicious this chicken salad is!
Suzy
Such a classic summer lunch! My family loves it when I make this.
Julie
I love this! It’s a great addition to cookouts and potlucks.
Steph
Love this salad so much! I’ll be making it again when we have friend over for Memorial Day this weekend!
Krista
This is great for all our grilling nights! Great side dish for them!
Erin
I know for sure this would be a huge hit in my house!
Sammy
This was such a great side dish! My family loved the balance of the grapes with the walnuts!
Catalina
My favorite salad! I love all these flavors! It’s on my tonight dinner list!
Katerina
I absolutely LOVE this! It looks SO good!!
Rosa
I never heard of a waldorf salad before. I will definitely be giving this a try!
Elizabeth
This is a gorgeous sounding recipe! I’m a big fan of Waldorf Salad, but your addition of chicken makes it a perfect meal on its own. Yum!
Beth Pierce
Thanks Elizabeth! I hope you enjoy it!
Alexandra
Oh my goodness this sounds so incredibly good! I love Waldorf salad, and cannot believe I have never thought to put chicken in it! This will be changing very soon 🙂
Adriana
My moms was used to make this for us very often a winner in the weekly menu for sure and a classic for springtime meals. Loving all your pics, the salad looks fantastic.
Tisha
This chicken waldorf salad look delicious! Great for on a crackers a light lunch for sure!
Courtney
Omg can we say yum?!?! I just love making any kind of salad that involves chicken. Must make!!!
Gladys Nava
Oh wow! This recipe is something new for me. I am sure that the taste was really delicious. Will try this soon! Yumm yumm
Kalyan Panja
This recipe looks yummy. I would love to taste it.
Eryka
Yum this looks incredible! I’m definitely making this salad next week!
Pati
my mum makes a similar salad and it tastes delicious – i cannot wait to try yours
Va Anne Rome
I love finding a new recipe to try. I’m always so scared I am going to mess it up somehow. This looks easy enough for me though. Thanks!
Beth Pierce
That is a super easy delicious recipe! Enjoy!
Alexandra Cook
Wow, so delicious and easy recipe to make for the kids. I am sure my kids will love it like and will make their favorite.
Erica
This sounds like a quick and easy salad that can really be a whole meal.
Jasmine Hewitt
this looks really good! I like trying different chicken recipes
Lindsey
You can not beat a good salad, with Spring now officially here I’ll be eati more of these.
Lisa
I really love chicken waldorf salad but haven’t made it for a while. I’ll be trying out your recipe, it looks great.
Kami
This is so good, I’ve made a similar recipe and it’s definitely a favorite at our house.
Danielle
my boyfriend is a huge lover of chicken salad. this sounds absolutely perfect for him!
Katie
Yum! My mom used to make this and I haven’t had it in years. Thanks for the idea.
Beth Pierce
My pleasure Katie! I hope you enjoy it!
Heather
I’m not sure I’ve ever tried this before. I don’t eat meat and I’m not a huge fan of fruit and mayo together.
Deanna
Oh I love chicken waldorf. I was introduced to it when I worked at a European deli when I was younger. Your recipe sounds perfect.
Craig Silva
This looks so delicious. Love that there are granny smith apples in there. Would be so good on a pumpernickel bagel.
Beth Pierce
That sounds absolutely amazing! Delicious!
Stacie
Waldorf salad is one of my favorite things to serve my family. It’s a complete meal in and of itself, which means I save time and I get something super tasty on the table.
Monidipa Dutta
This looks yummy, tasty. I am pinning it so that I can make it on Sunday.
Beth Pierce
Thanks so much Monidipa. We love it so I hope you enjoy it as much as we do!
Doris
Can the celery be replaced with something else?
Beth Pierce
I am sure you could replace with green pepper or small chopped broccoli.
Roshelle
“Two stacks” of celery – please explain. Is that to stalks?
Beth Pierce
Thanks for the heads up Roshelle! It is stalks. I am going to correct right now. Small puppy in the house has everything turned upside down.
Lena Williams
That means two pieces off the whole thing. Insted of lemon to keep the apples from turning brown yuo can buy a container called Fruit Fresh its in the canning aisle at the grocery store. I use it on bananas in my banana pudding it keeps the bananas from turning black. Awesome idea.