Chicken Salad Clubs

Once summer arrives, we thought this sounded like a tasty sandwich on a warm sunny day when you do not want to run the oven. We prepared & tasted two Taste of home recipes this week – Chicken Salad Clubs with Summer Chicken Salad.

Chicken Salad Clubs

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Ingredients

• 8 bacon strips
• 4 lettuce leaves
• 8 slices  rye or pumpernickel bread
• 1 pound prepared chicken salad (see recipe below)
• 4 slices Swiss cheese
• 8 slices tomato
• ½ cup honey mustard salad dressing

 

Directions

• In a large skillet, cook bacon over medium heat until crisp.  Remove to paper towels to drain.  Place lettuce on 4 slices of bread; layer each with chicken salad, 2 bacon strips, one cheese slice and 2 tomato slices.  Spread salad dressing on one side of remaining bread; place over tomatoes.

Summer Chicken Salad

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Ingredients

• 2 cups cooked chicken
• 1 celery rib, thinly sliced
• ½ cup seedless red grapes
• 1/3 cup raisins
• ½ cup mayonnaise
• ½ tsp salt
• 1/8 tsp pepper
• 1/3 cup chopped pecans
• Leaf lettuce
• Tomato slices, optional

 

Directions

• In a large bowl, combine the chicken, celery, grapes and raisins.  In a small bowl, combine the mayonnaise, salt and pepper.  Add the chicken mixture; toss to coat.  Stir in pecans.  Serve with lettuce and garnish with tomato if desired.

 

Tupps Tidbits ~ for the chicken salad, you could leave out the grapes and add chopped apples or craisins instead

We made these both without tomatoes and also exchanged the mayonnaise with miracle whip.  This is basically a regular chicken salad sandwich with some not-so –usual ingredients, like rye bread and honey-mustard dressing.  The results were delicious…..DEFINITELY A KEEPER!