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A hand holding a lettuce leaf filled with the best chicken salad mixture. The salad includes chunks of slow cooker chicken, grapes, cranberries, and herbs.
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Best Slow Cooker Chicken Salad

Best Slow Cooker Chicken Salad recipe with top ingredients, has how long to cook boneless chicken breasts on low, in a crock pot, to make shredded chicken.
Prep Time15 minutes
Total Time15 minutes
Servings: 6
Author: Karin and Ken

Ingredients

For the dressing:

For the salad:

  • 2 ½ cups cooked chicken small diced, approximately 3 chicken breasts or 6 boneless skinless chicken thighs
  • ½ cup celery small diced
  • ¾ cup red grapes halved
  • 1 cup honeycrisp apple small diced
  • 2 tablespoons red onion finely diced
  • ¼ cup dried cranberries
  • ¼ cup pecans toasted finely chopped

Instructions

  • In a large bowl, whisk together the mayonnaise, dijon, parsley, lemon juice, lemon zest, garlic powder, onion powder, salt, paprika, and pepper until combined.
  • Add the diced chicken, celery, grapes, apples, red onion, cranberries, and pecans.
  • Stir everything together until well combined and coated in the dressing. Serve immediately or cover with plastic wrap and chill until ready to serve.
  • If you don’t want raw red onion in your salad, I suggest adding thinly sliced green onion in it’s place.
  • I used a rotisserie chicken, which adds a lot of flavor as is, but use whatever cooked chicken you have on hand.

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Notes

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Our Spring Slow Cooker Recipes will have your family wanting more. 
Super flavorful, crunchy, a little tart, and little sweet, and totally addictive. You keep going back for another bite. It is super fun to eat, because each bite is a little different with all the goodies in there. Yes, there is a lot of “stuff” in this salad, but it truly goes together amazingly well.
Keep leftovers in the fridge for up to 3 days, I do not suggest freezing