Curry Chicken Salad Recipe with Dried Cherries - Gluten Free

Curry Chicken Salad

I think it was about a week ago that Laurie, from Cookin' Up North, posted the recipe for her Curry Chicken Salad on her blog. I knew that I had most of the ingredients on hand, so I decided to try it. Be sure to visit her blog to get the original recipe. I tweaked this a bit, simply because I didn't have exactly the same ingredients - but close.

Curry Chicken Salad - Recipe:

1 large can chicken breast (Mine is Member's Mark from Sams Club - only chicken and water. No other creepy ingredients.)

Celery - some (I think this may have been about 3 ribs)

Apple - 1 apple, cored and minced. I used dried apples from my McIntosh tree after pulsing them in the food processor for a bit.

Onion - some (about 1/3 small onion, minced)

Dried Door County Cherries, about 3/4 c.

Chopped Pecans, about 1/3 c.

Miracle Whip Salad Dressing (about 1/3 c.)  Kraft will list all forms a gluten on the ingredient listing. If you don't see it there, then it is not there.)

Lime juice from half a lime

1 t. Hot Curry Powder (I used Penzey's) *

1/8 t. salt

Roasted sunflower seeds

A sprinkling of cayenne, if you like it even a little hotter.

Chop celery and onion.

Mix in drained canned chicken breast, cherries, pecans.

Stir in salad dressing, lime juice, hot curry powder, salt.

Put sunflower seeds in a small bowl on the table.

(No one wants soggy sunflower seeds.)

This stuff is SO delicious!

I can eat a small dish of this for lunch and not even miss potato chips...well, not too much. A few might be really nice to accompany this great chicken salad!

I've already made this twice since last week, so you can tell it's a new favorite around here! Thanks to Laurie.  Now I'm going to go try her Spinach Artichoke Dip!

*What I learned about Penzey's Spices by writing to the company:

'Thank you for taking the time to write.   None of our spices or blends contain any sort of gluten in them, the label indicates everything that is in that jar/bag.  The only product that does contain gluten is our Beef Soup Base.  All of our soup bases are produced at a different site, so as a general rule of thumb we recommend to stay away from all of our soup bases as we can not guarantee that there is no cross contamination.

As a company, we can not claim that we are a gluten free facility as we do not specifically test for gluten and we have a test kitchen on site that does contain flour.  The blending and packaging room is completely separate from the kitchen, but legally we can not advertise our blends as being "gluten free".

We hope this information is helpful and please feel free to contact us with any other questions you may have.

Best regards,
 Kimmie
Penzeys Spices
Customer Service 1-800-741-7787'

Thought I'd pass along that info for those of you who are looking for gluten-free spices.

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