How to Make Low Calorie Chicken Salad

Many people love the taste of chicken salad. It is great for a picnic, an ordinary lunch or anytime you just want a bite to eat. But those of us who are watching our weight may feel like we can’t eat these wonderful and tempting treat. Yet, that isn’t the case, if you use the low calorie recipe version.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• 1 cup of diced cooked chicken
• ¼ cup of chopped of celery
• 4 lettuce leaves (look for the crispy ones)
• Salt
• Pepper
• 8 Tbsp of low calorie mayonnaise

How to Make Low Calorie Chicken Salad

1. Gather your ingredients:
   
   1 cup of diced cooked chicken
   ¼ cup of chopped of celery
   4 lettuce leaves (look for the crispy ones)
   Salt
   Pepper
   8 Tbsp of low calorie mayonnaise
   
   You may also want to add about ¼ cup of green peppers if you can handle them.
   
   You can buy your chicken all ready cooked and diced up for you. You can also use some left over chicken that has been cooked, boiled or baked as long that it doesn’t have a lot of left over spices.

2. Combine the ingredients. You can either chop the lettuce leaves into small portions or add to the salad or you can actually use the leaves in the place of bread and serve the salad on them. (If you do this your serving calorie count will be about 89 calories and will make about 4 servings). Add salt and pepper according to your taste.

3. Chill. Chicken salads always taste better a little on the cool side.

4. If you are serving as a snack, you may which to serve on the lettuce leaves. If you are serving as part of a meal, place the salad on low calorie bread, such as a wheat bread. Whip up a green salad to accompany and now you have a small meal to serve.

[MIHealthCoach]

on 6/19/2008 You can also use less mayo but substituting some sour cream and plain yogurt.