Elegant Brunch Chicken Salad

I made this for a baby shower and was bombarded considering requests for the recipe! It is delicious more or less its own, or later than small bread slices or crackers. Dont skimp by not using the homemade mayonnaise, it in fact in point of fact adds a special flavor! Makes a 2-quart serving dish full, so if there will be bonus foods, this will benefits at least six, maybe even taking place in the works to ten!

The ingredient of Elegant Brunch Chicken Salad

1. 1 pound skinless, boneless chicken breast halves
2. 1 egg
3. u00bc teaspoon dry mustard
4. u00bd teaspoon salt
5. 2 teaspoons hot water
6. 1 tablespoon white wine vinegar
7. 1 cup olive oil
8. 2 cups halved seedless red grapes
9. 1 cup scratchily chopped pecans
10. 1 cup harshly roughly crumbled blue cheese

The instruction how to make Elegant Brunch Chicken Salad

1. Bring a large pot of water to a boil. build up the chicken and simmer until cooked through, as regards 10 minutes. Drain, cool and cut into cubes.
2. While boiling chicken, make the mayonnaise: Using a blender or hand-held electric mixer, beat the egg, mustard, salt, water and vinegar until fresh open and frothy. ensue the oil a tablespoon at a time, beating thoroughly after each addition. gone when union begins to thicken, you can amass oil more quickly. Continue until incorporation combination reaches the consistency of creamy mayonnaise. NOTE: The more oil you add, the thicker it gets; you may not habit the full cup of oil.
3. In a large bowl, toss together the chicken, grapes, pecans, blue cheese and 1 cup of the mayonnaise. shake up until evenly coated, adding more mayonnaise if necessary. Refrigerate until serving.

Nutritions of Elegant Brunch Chicken Salad

calories: 657 calories
carbohydrateContent: 12.6 g
cholesterolContent: 91.8 mg
fatContent: 57.7 g
fiberContent: 2.3 g
proteinContent: 25.4 g
saturatedFatContent: 10.9 g
servingSize:
sodiumContent: 570.6 mg
sugarContent: 9.8 g
transFatContent:
unsaturatedFatContent: