Chicken Waldorf Salad

This healthy chicken Waldorf salad uses grilled chicken and a light dressing that blends mayo with Greek yogurt! Great for sandwiches, wraps and salads.

Wow! It’s been a minute since I shared a salad recipe. While I tend to eat salads all year, I have to say my salad cravings definitely subside a bit in the winter months. Now that spring is here and summer feels like it’s right around the corner, I can’t wait to get back on the salad train.

Protein salads, like this chicken Waldorf salad are perfect for meal prep and work great as a filling for wraps, sandwiches or even as a salad topping.

It’s made with a few simple ingredients (many that you likely already have at home!) and comes together in no time at all.

Here’s What You Need:

Most Waldorf chicken salads include grapes, but I decided to omit them to keep the sugar content a bit lower for this salad. If you’re a grape lover, you can totally add grapes in! Maybe start with 1/4 cup chopped grapes and use a bit less apple chunks.

• grilled chicken
• celery
• red onion
• apple
• walnuts
• mayonnaise
• yogurt
• dijon mustard
• lemon juice
• sea salt and black pepper

How to Grill Chicken for This Salad

The key to making sure this salad has a lot of flavor is seasoning and grilling your chicken. You don’t have to use any special seasoning. Salt and pepper do the trick. That said, if you want to amp up the flavor you can use my recipe for grilled apple cider vinegar chicken!

And for the grilling, you can use an outdoor grill or a grill pan for indoor grilling.

For 2 cups of grilled chicken you’ll want to season 2 chicken breasts liberally with salt and pepper. Prepare grill for high-heat cooking or spray a grill pan with cooking spray (I like avocado oil spray) and heat it over medium-high heat. Cook the chicken on the grill rack directly over heat for 6-10 minutes, turning once after 4-5 minutes. Or cook it in the grill pan for about 7-10 minutes, turning once. Chicken is done cooking when it’s white throughout and has an internal temp of 160°F. Remove chicken breasts from heat. Once cool enough to handle, you can chop it up for the salad.

How to Serve Waldorf Salad

My favorite thing about this salad is how many different ways you can serve it!

• Eat as is – it’s definitely a complete meal on it’s own.
• Over a bed of greens – I am a volume eater so I love starting with a base of greens and topping it with this salad.
• Lettuce cups – scoop into a lettuce leaf for a crunchy and fresh wrap. Romaine, butter or iceberg lettuce works great for this.
• In a wrap – scoop into a whole grain wrap and add some greens for a little extra crunch and you have a satisfying wrap!
• On toast/as a sandwich – I love this as both an open faced sandwich on toasted bread or as more of a traditional chicken salad sandwich.
• With crackers or tortilla chips – if you want to serve this salad as a dip with crackers or chips, I recommend dicing the chicken into smaller chunks.

More Chicken Salad Recipes You Might Enjoy:

• Blueberry Corn Chicken Salad with Maple Dressing
• Thai Curry Chicken Salad
• Pear Salad with Avocado and Grilled Chicken
• Chicken Avocado Club Salad
• Almond Butter Chicken Salad
• Healthy Curry Chicken Salad
• Grilled Chicken and Quinoa Meal Prep Bowls

If you try this chicken Waldorf salad please be sure to leave a comment and star rating below letting me know how it turned out. Your feedback is super helpful for the EBF team and other readers. 

Chicken Waldorf Salad

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★★★★★

4.9 from 8 reviews

• Author: Brittany Mullins
• Prep Time: 15 minutes
• Total Time: 15 minutes
• Yield: 4

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Description

This healthy chicken Waldorf salad uses grilled chicken and a light dressing that blends mayo with Greek yogurt! Great for sandwiches, wraps and salads.

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Ingredients

• 2 cups chopped grilled chicken breast
• 1 medium apple, diced
• 2 stalks celery, diced
• ¼ cup diced red onion
• 2 Tablespoons chopped walnuts (toasted, if you’d like)
• ¼ cup mayonnaise
• ¼ cup plain Greek yogurt 
• 1 Tablespoon lemon juice
• 1 ½ teaspoons dijon mustard
• sea salt and black pepper, to taste
• fresh thyme, for garnish (optional)

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Instructions

1. Grill chicken (see notes in post above) and let cool, if you haven’t already. Chop into chunks and measure.
2. Add chicken, diced apple, celery, onion and walnuts in a large bowl. In a small bowl whisk together the mayonnaise, yogurt, lemon juice and mustard until combined.
3. Add dressing to the bowl with the chicken mixture and toss until everything is well combined. Top with fresh thyme, if using.
4. Serve salad as is, in a wrap, sandwich or as a topping for salad.

• Category: Salad
• Method: Grill
• Cuisine: American

Keywords: chicken waldorf salad