Lauralyn's Chicken Salad

Lauralyn’s Chicken Salad


4-5 chicken breasts:
(You can buy a chicken (rotisserie kind) at the deli and cut that up or you can boil chicken breasts until done or you can buy the chicken breasts with skin and bone on (this is my favorite way because the chicken is so tender and moist!!)

If you do the chicken breasts with bone and skin on, this is what you do:
Place the chicken skin side up on a cookie sheet or baking tray. Coat the chicken skin with olive oil (or you can use canola or any oil if you don't have olive oil). Generously salt and pepper the chicken and place in 350 oven and bake for about 35-45 minutes. The chicken is done when the juices run clear when you pierce chicken with a fork. When chicken is cool enough to touch, pull off skin and remove from bone. Cut the chicken (or you can shred if you like) into bite size pieces.

To the cut up chicken add:
1 cup chopped celery
1 cup pecans chopped-not too fine- or slivered almonds
1 large container grapes (red or green or both-it doesn't matter although red have higher nutritional value) I buy the big bags of grapes or the containers at Costco and use the whole thing because I like extra grapes.
1 cup chopped dried apricots (you can buy them at Wallmart and it will take several packages to get a cup or you can buy them at Costco
Mayonaise (about 1 cup or so-- you will have to add enough until it is moist and the chicken and other ingredients are well coated)
Salt and pepper (be generous)
A titch of onion salt and you can also add a little tiny pinch of poultry seasoning (Do this all to taste)
**Sometimes I add chopped granny smith or fuji or gala apples but when I made it for Jessi's wedding shower, I just used the apricots.

Mix altogether and refrigerate.