This low calorie chicken salad with cranberries and almonds is only 107 calories and has no mayo!
We replace the mayonnaise in this cranberry chicken salad sandwich recipe with metabolism boosting greek yogurt and add a bit of mustard so it tastes just like mayo… Without all the calories and fat!
Along with the low calorie recipe chicken salad with cranberries and almonds, we’ve supplied you with 10 healthy ways to serve chicken craisin salad recipes.
Plus a healthy guide to making all your chicken salad recipes low in calories, and so much more.
This healthy chicken salad with cranberries is only 107 calories and has no mayo!
Low Calorie Chicken Salad
This article will supply you with everything you’ll need to make a low calorie chicken salad with cranberries and almonds.
From a shopping list, to a printable recipe card. You’ll even find a low calorie guide and nutrition label for this healthy chicken salad recipe!
Learn how to make chicken salad healthy and low calorie in this easy to follow article. The sections below make this cranberry chicken salad easy to make…
What You’ll Find in this Article:
- Ingredients in Chicken Cranberry Salad Recipes (shopping list!)
- How to Make Chicken Salad Recipes with Cranberries
- Low Calorie Chicken Salad With Cranberries and Almonds (recipe card!)
- Nutrition and Calories in Chicken Salad Recipes with Cranberries
Helpful Tip for Shopping: Take a screenshot of the shopping list to your phone. This way you have it at your fingertips the next time you go grocery shopping.
Recipe Card Uses: You can email yourself this recipe card so you can easily search for it (I have a folder in email just for recipes!) Or print it so you have it handy, and can make notes. You can even pin these recipes for chicken salad with cranberries to Pintrest so it is safely stored for you.
Up next, a shopping list for low calorie cranberry chicken salad recipe…
Ingredients in Chicken Cranberry Salad Recipes
It’s easy to make chicken salad with cranberries and almonds healthy, when you have our low calorie cooking tips below…
Low Calorie Tips to Making a Healthy Chicken Cranberry Salad Recipe:
- Greek Yogurt and Dijon Mustard… This combo tastes just like mayo in a chicken (or tuna) salad, but without all the fat and calories. Bonus, Greek Yogurt is packed full of protein and naturally boosts metabolism!
- Add Veggies… You can have more cranberry chicken salad for less calories when you add healthy veggies to the mix. Plus, the celery gives the recipe for chicken cranberry salad a nice crunch so it’s not so mushy.
- Serve it Healthy… There are 10 low calorie ways to serve this chicken cranberry salad recipe in the next section. So you can save even more calories!
Shopping List for The Best Chicken Salad with Cranberries:
- Shredded chicken (pre cooked and cooled)
- 0% Greek yogurt
- Dijon mustard
- Celery
- Green onions
- Dried cranberries
- Slivered almonds
- Salt and pepper
Special Tip: You can find all the measurements in the recipe card below. There you can choose how many servings of chicken cranberry almond salad you want to make, and it will do all the measurement math for you! All of the ingredients for this chicken salad deli recipe can be doubled or tripled with the click of a button.
Up next, how to make a healthy chicken salad sandwich recipe with cranberries…
How to Make Chicken Salad Recipes with Cranberries
The best chicken salad with cranberries gets even better when you cut the calories and serve it healthy.
Check out these 10 healthy ways to serve chicken salad with cranberries and almonds… then see the “How to Guide” for making low calorie chicken salad recipes below.
Yummy (and Healthy) Ways to Serve Chicken Almond Cranberry Salad:
- Serve chicken salad with cranberries open faced, and eliminate one slice of bread.
- Scoop salad recipes with chicken over mixed greens for a chicken with salad recipe.
- Eat this recipe for chicken salad it as a dip with a mix of sliced cucumbers and crackers.
- Really cut the carbs and serve this recipe for chicken cranberry salad with cucumber slices and carrots.
- Use a spinach tortilla to make a chicken salad lunch wrap.
- Vertically halve and clean a red bell pepper, roast until soft and cool before filling with craisins chicken salad.
- Use large butter lettuce leaves to make a cranberry chicken salad lunch wrap.
- Use the smaller butter lettuce leaves to fill lettuce cups with chicken salad cranberries almonds.
- Dip your favorite veggie chips in the cranberry chicken salad as a snack.
- Slice an apple into rounds (remove seeds) top with almond cranberry chicken salad.
How to Make Deli Chicken Salad with Craisins:
- Add all of the chicken salad recipe ingredients to a large bowl.
- Use the back of a spoon, fork, or a spatula to mix and squish all of the ingredients together.
- Serve as a chicken salad sandwich, chicken wrap, cranberry chicken salad over greens… any way you like.
Special Tip: You can find these directions, along with measurements, nutrition and more in the sharable recipe card in the next section!
Up next, a sharable recipe card for chicken salad with almonds and cranberries…
Low Calorie Chicken Salad With Cranberries
You can enjoy 1/3 cup of almond cranberry chicken salad (which is almost too much for a sandwich) for just 107 calories!
Plus, in the section above, we have supplied you with 10 healthy ways to serve this chicken salad with cranberries and almonds! So be sure to scroll up if you clicked the “jump to recipe” button!
LOW CALORIE Cranberry Chicken Salad
Ingredients
- 2 cups shredded chicken pre cooked and cooled
- ½ cup Greek yogurt
- 1 tablespoon dijon mustard
- 2 stalks celery diced
- 2 green onions sliced
- 2 tablespoons dried cranberries
- 1 tablespoon slivered almonds
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ⅛ teaspoon pepper
Instructions
- Add all of the chicken salad recipe ingredients to a large bowl.
- Use the back of a spoon, fork, or a spatula to mix and squish all of the ingredients together.
- Serve as a chicken salad sandwich, chicken wrap, cranberry chicken salad over greens… any way you like.
Nutrition
Nutrition and Calories in Chicken Salad Recipes with Cranberries
We were able to cut 100’s of calories and lots of fat in this recipe for homemade chicken salad with cranberries… thanks to our low calorie cooking tips (in the ingredients section above).
And then showed you how to serve this cranberry almond chicken salad healthy (in the How to Make section above).
Be sure to see below for more low calorie chicken sandwich recipes and a low calorie shredded chicken recipe that is perfect in this recipe for cranberry chicken salad!
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