This delicious, homemade creamy Curry Chicken Salad with Grapes is creamy, sweet, and savory.

Juicy chicken, sweet grapes, crunchy green onions, and tangy mango chutney are combined with curry and fresh ginger, orange juice, sour cream, and a dollop of mayonnaise.

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About This Curry Chicken Salad With Grapes

This is such a great homemade chicken salad recipe. Once made you can easily keep it in your fridge for about a week. It's similar to the Amish Macaroni Salad in that it's a great recipe for parties, potlucks, or barbecues.

This salad is perfect for lunches at home or on the go. Look for a glass container like this one that has two compartments - one for the lettuce and one for the chicken salad.

When you are ready to serve simply add the chicken salad with grapes on a bed of lettuce and dig in!

Salad Ingredients

Cooked Chicken - Poached chicken breast works great. But you can also use grilled chicken.
Grapes - You can use both green grapes, red grapes or a combination of both
Green Onions - You may also know green onions as scallions. They add a bit of an onion-like flavor without overpowering this curry chicken salad.
Lettuce - iceberg, baby bib lettuce, or even a spring mix work great.

Salad DRESSING

Sour Cream - If you don't like sour cream use Greek yogurt instead.
Mayonnaise
Curry Powder - I find that good curry powder can make a or break a dish like this. This organic curry powder has been my favorite for many years.
Mango Chutney - This is an excellent mango chutney you'll find in most major grocery stores.
Orange Juice - You can use a storebought one (we love Trader Joe's Unpasteurized Fresh squeezed Orange juice) or simply use the juice of one fresh squeezed orange.
Ginger - You can use powdered ginger but I highly recommend using fresh ginger.

Other Add-Ins

Golden Raisins
Mandarins. If you're choosing to use canned orange mandarins, you can use the mandrin juice instead of the orange juice
Fresh Mango
Cranberries
Nuts - Both walnuts and pecans work nicely.

How To Make This Chicken Salad Recipe

Large salad bowl with curry salad with grapes

Use a large cutting board to chop the green onions and half or quarter the green grapes.
In a large bowl combine sour cream, mayonnaise, curry powder, mango chutney, fresh ginger, and the orange juice. Use a whisk and blend until smooth.
Add the chopped green onions, green grapes, and cooked chicken to the dressing and combine until everything is evenly coated.
Use your favorite lettuce and top with the creamy curried chicken salad.

Recipe Success Tips

Poaching chicken is the healthiest method to cook chicken. But it can also result in tough, dry chicken. And nobody wants that. If poaching chicken scares you, check out this foolproof method for poaching chicken. This always results in tender, juicy chicken!!

We prefer chopping the cooked chicken breasts into small, medium, and large size chunks, but you can also shred the chicken.

If you're looking to cut some calories, simply swap the sour cream for Greek yogurt and omit the mayonnaise.

Don't combine the lettuce with the chicken. If you have leftovers the lettuce will not stay crisp. Therefore it's better to serve the lettuce on the side.

Salad Sandwiches

Another great way of serving this easy chicken salad recipe is to turn it into a curry chicken sandwich or wrap. Use your favorite bread, make a bed of lettuce and top it with some of the chicken salad.

One of the reasons why this simple chicken salad recipe is so high on the list of awesome salad recipes is because it's so versatile.

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James

October 01, 2019 at 7:13 pm

Love a good chicken sandwich, this one looks great. Can’t wait to give it a try.

Curry Chicken Salad

About This Curry Chicken Salad With Grapes