This super simple Weight Watchers chicken salad recipe is loaded with texture and flavor. It’s really delicious and simple to make.
For Weight Watchers personal points this chicken salad is a perfect protein packed meal to enjoy for lunch or dinner. It’s easy to make and can be a great addition to your WW or Keto meal plans.
If you are looking for chicken salad with nuts and dried berries, this one will be a hit! Of course, you can always substitute or eliminate things that you don’t like. This recipe is flexible as well, add more nuts, avocado, or full fat mayo for a Keto friendly chicken salad recipe.
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Meal Prep Tips
Making chicken salad is great meal prep. If you don’t already prep your meals in advance you are missing out! It’s a wonderful way to keep on track with the Weight Watchers program.
You can use this recipe to serve on salads, in wraps, on sandwiches, and even with fresh veggies for dipping. It’s a tasty and versatile lighter chicken salad recipe that everyone will be sure to enjoy.
Having healthy meals on hand that are already prepared is a way to keep yourself from overeating or eating something convenient but high in points. If you are making this recipe for dinner you might want to throw in some extra points and have a roll, wrap, or sandwich. For lunches, you can serve this over fresh greens for a salad or use it for dipping with celery, sliced peppers, and cucumbers!
This recipe goes great with fresh veggies so if you want to serve it with a side salad at dinner you can definitely do that too. It’s versatile, if you don’t like the walnuts you can swap them out for something else like almonds perhaps? Just be sure to recalculate the recipe to make sure the points stay the same.
Meal prep kitchen essentials
Making healthy meals is a breeze with these kitchen essentials. Keeping things like this on hand makes my life so much easier in the kitchen.
Some things that are great to have on hand when prepping meals like this is a cutting board, sharp knives, and storage containers.
What do I need to make a healthier chicken salad recipe?
You can find the full list of ingredients and amounts in the printable recipe card at the bottom! For your shopping list, you’ll want to add the following items.
You will need boneless skinless chicken breasts, light mayonnaise, walnuts, dried cranberries, eggs (hard boiled eggs), dry minced onion or onion powder, and black pepper!
If you are serving this chicken salad on rolls, wraps, or on the bread you’ll need to add those to your list. You will also need to add them to the points total for your recipe! The points below are only for the ingredients in the chicken salad itself!
How to make Weight Watchers chicken salad:
This recipe could not be easier. If you are like me and you have cooked chicken and hard boiled eggs on hand you’ll just need to chop everything up and throw it all together! Check out how simple this Weight Watchers chicken salad is below.
In a large bowl, stir chicken, eggs, walnuts, and celery together
Add in mayonnaise, dry onion, pepper, and cranberries and stir until well combined
Serve immediately or place in refrigerator until chilled
Looking for more delicious recipes to try?
If you are looking for even more delicious Weight Watchers meals to add to your lineup for this week you won’t want to miss out on these classics. My family doesn’t even KNOW they’re eating healthier thanks to these delicious meals.
If you are looking for another light and easy lunch or dinner, try out my Weight Watchers Apple Walnut Tuna Salad! You should also try out these WW Chicken lime tacos!
Have a whole bunch of hard boiled eggs you need to use now? Try out these Weight Watchers Deviled Eggs.
How do I track this chicken salad for myWW+?
Below is the points breakdown for one serving of this recipe. It’s about 6 servings of 1/2-3/4 cup each depending on how big your items are chopped. I usually divide the whole recipe into six servings. I use about half of mine for meal prep anyway!
You should always create the recipe for yourself in the recipe creator on Weight Watchers if you have questions. We are all human so you should plan accordingly. Always track for yourself using the exact brands and items you have on hand. Items can vary from brand to brand so even small changes can impact the points.
Printable WW Chicken Salad Recipe:
Weight Watchers Chicken Salad
This super simple Weight Watchers chicken salad recipe is loaded with texture and flavor. It's indulgent and simple to make.
Ingredients
- 2 cups cooked chicken breast, shredded
- 4 eggs, boiled and chopped
- ½ cup celery, chopped
- ¼ cup walnuts, chopped
- ¼ cup dried cranberries
- ¾ cup light mayonnaise
- 1 tablespoon dry minced onion
- Pepper to taste
Instructions
- In a large bowl, stir chicken, eggs, walnuts, and celery together
- Add in mayonnaise, dry onion, pepper, and cranberries and stir until well combined
- Serve immediately or place in refrigerator until chilled
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Nutrition Information
Yield
6Serving Size
1Amount Per Serving Calories 258Total Fat 15gSaturated Fat 3gTrans Fat 0gUnsaturated Fat 11gCholesterol 169mgSodium 336mgCarbohydrates 10gFiber 1gSugar 7gProtein 20g
As with any of our recipes, carb counts, calorie counts, WW points and nutritional information varies greatly. As a result, your nutritional content depends on which products you choose to use when cooking this dish. The auto-calculation is just an automated estimate and should NOT be used for specific dietary needs.
This recipe is in no way authorized or associated with the Weight Watchers Program.
Esther
Friday 2nd of September 2022
Tjank you