Old Fashioned Chicken Salad
Old Fashioned Chicken Salad is my take on a classic style chicken salad made with simple ingredients. Start with a whole fresh chicken and stew it down or make it easy by grabbing a rotisserie chicken.
Servings: 9 cups
Ingredients
- 5 pound stewing hen
- 2 large carrots
- 2 celery ribs
- 2 teaspoons salt
- 3 to 4 garlic cloves
- 1 bay leaf
- 1 teaspoon pepper
- all the shredded stewed hen meat roughly 8 cupfuls
- 1 1/2 cups Duke's mayonnaise
- 1/2 cups sweet pickle relish with the juice
- 2 celery ribs minced
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1/2 teaspoon ground pepper
Instructions
- To stew the hen, place hen, breast down, in a large stockpot. Add remaining ingredients and fill stockpot with water. Use a colander insert if you have one for your stochpot. It makes removal of the hen and vegetables much easier.
- Cover and place on medium heat.
- Bring the pot to boil. Turn the heat down to medium low and simmer for one hour or until the hen is good and tender.
- Remove hen and vegetables. Discard vegetables.
- Set aside hen to cool. As soon as it's cool enough to handle, remove skin and bones.
- Shred the meat.
- To make the salad, place meat in a large mixing bowl.
- In a small mixing bowl, mix remaining ingredients to make the dressing.
- Add to chicken and mix.
- If mixture is too dry, add more mayo.
- Taste and adjust for seasoning.
- Chill before serving.
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