Best Chicken Salad with Pineapple, Cinnamon, and Mint
This delicious take on a chicken salad includes juicy pineapple, fresh mint, cinnamon, and macadamia nuts.
Ingredients
- 2 Cups Chicken Breast, cooked and shredded or cubed
- ⅔ Cup Pineapple Chunks (1/2 - 3/4 Inch Thick)
- ¼ Cup Macadamia Nuts, chopped
- 1 Tbsp Fresh Mint Leaves, chopped
- ¼ Cup Celery, chopped
- ¾ Cup Light Yogurt
- 1 ½ tsp Honey
- 1 ½ tsp Apple Cider Vinegar
- 1 ½ tsp Lemon Juice
- ¾ tsp Cinnamon
- ½ tsp Brown Sugar
- ½ tsp Salt
Ingredients if Making Sandwiches
- 8 Slices of Gluten Free White Bread If not gluten free, butter croissants or Hawaiian sweet bread are great options
- 4 Large Butter Leaves
Ingredients if Making Green Salad
- 1 Head Butter Lettuce, rinsed, dried and chopped
- ***Optional Champagne or Lemony Vinaigrette
Instructions
- Add the light yogurt, honey, apple cider vinegar and lemon juice to a large bowl and mix ingredients together by hand. *** If you are not using light yogurt, use less honey and/or brown sugar so the mixture is not too sweet.
- Stir in the cinnamon, brown sugar, and salt until well combined.
- Remove ¼ cup of the yogurt mixture and set aside.
- Add the cooked chicken, pineapple, nuts, celery and mint to the yogurt mixture.
- Chill the salad and extra yogurt mixture for at least 1 hour.
Directions for Sandwiches
- Lightly toast 8 slices of bread.
- Remove the salad and extra yogurt mixture from the fridge.
- Spread about ½ Tbsp of the extra yogurt mixture on each slice of bread.
- Place a large piece of butter lettuce to one side of each sandwich (4 of the slices).
- Add ¼ of the chicken salad to each of the other 4 slices of bread.
- Stack the bread slices with the lettuce on top of the slices with the chicken salad to make the sandwiches.
- Slice each sandwich in half from corner to corner.
- Serve and enjoy!
Directions for a Green Salad
- Rinse ,dry and chop one head of butter lettuce and place in a large service bowl.
- Toss extra yogurt mixture with the lettuce.
- Top the lettuce with the chicken salad mixture.
- ***Optional - Serve with a champagne or lemony vinaigrette on the side to drizzle lightly on top of the salad.