Wendy's Famous Chicken Salad

Total Time: 1 hr Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 2 1/2 cups diced cooked chicken
• 1 cup celery, chopped
• 1 cup red seedless grapes, sliced
• 1/2 cup sliced almonds, toasted
• 2 tablespoons fresh parsley, chopped
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup mayonnaise
• 1/4 cup heavy whipping cream

Recipe

• 1 boil chicken until fully cooked (i like to use cut up pieces of chicken on the bone. it makes the moistest chicken salad.).
• 2 while chicken is cooking prepare/chop celery, grapes (i find red seedless grapes sweeter), and parsley.
• 3 de-bone chicken and remove skin and cartilage.
• 4 place shredded/diced chicken meat in bowl.
• 5 in a preheated 350 oven, place almonds in a single layer on a cookie sheet.
• 6 toast almonds for approximately 10 minutes (or until slightly golden.) turning almonds at least once in between. **keep a close eye on these while cooking, they can over cook very rapidly!
• 7 in a separate bowl, prepare and whip heavy whipping cream until you achieve soft peaks (or according to package directions.).
• 8 combine chicken, celery, grapes, parsley, salt and mayonnaise.
• 9 gently fold in toasted almonds and whipped/prepared heavy whipping cream.
• 10 chill until ready to serve.
• 11 serve on large bakery sized cresent rolls or on a bed of lettuce or pita bread.