How To Make Chicken Salad In A Food Processor

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Making chicken salad is super-easy when you use a food processor.  Here’s a step-by-step guide on how to make chicken salad with a food processor.

Step 1: Prepare the chicken meat

You need 1 cooked chicken breast.  You can use leftover chicken, or cook a chicken breast just for the chicken salad.
cooked chicken breast

Step 2: Prepare boiled eggs

You need 2 hard-boiled eggs.  You can boil them in advance, or right before making chicken salad.  Peel the boiled eggs.

peeled hard-boiled eggs to go in the chicken salad

Step 3: Put the slicer blade in the food processor

You need to use the slicer blade that goes on top of the food processor.  Don’t use the regular steel blade that’s inside the bowl – it will turn the chicken into a paste instead of shredded pieces.  Here’s the picture of the slicer blade in the food processor:

Step 4: Put chicken in the top compartment of the food processor

The chicken goes in the top feeding chute of the food processor.

chicken in food processor

Step 5: Turn On The Food Processor To Slice The Chicken

Turn on the food processor.  The blade will spin and the chicken will get sliced into small pieces and fall into the main bowl.  Don’t press on the top lid with your hand as the chicken gets sliced – the gravity will do a better job than forcing the chicken down.

shredded chicken inside the food processor bowl

Step 6: Put the eggs in the top compartment of the food processor

eggs in the food processor

Step 7: Turn on the food processor to chop the eggs

Same as with chicken, don’t push on the eggs – let the gravity do the work.

chopped eggs and chicken inside food processor

Step 8: Empty out the food processor into a mixing bowl

Put the chopped chicken and eggs from the food processor into a regular bowl.  Yes, you can use the food processor’s bowl, but I prefer not to, since it’s awkward to mix stuff by hand in the food processor bowl. 

shredded chicken and eggs in a bowl

Step 9: Prepare The Mayo

a can of mayo

Step 10: Add 3 tbsp of mayo to the chicken and eggs

adding a spoon of mayo to the chicken salad

Step 11: Mix the mayo, chicken and eggs

Mix everything with a spoon until combined.

mixing the chicken salad

Step 12: Add salt and pepper to taste

adding salt and pepper to the chicken salad

Your chicken salad is ready!  You can eat chicken salad as a salad, or make a chicken salad sandwich out of it.  Enjoy!

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5 Comments

  1. If you want to make it really great and you aren’t counting calories, add slices of apple into that food processor and finely chopped pecans. Delicious!!

  2. I did not used the boiled eggs, but added chopped dill pickles and chopped onion to the chicken prepared in the food processor… So good, my husband called it “heavenly”.

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