Recipe: Tasty Chicken and Apple Salad

Chicken and Apple Salad. This Crunchy Chicken Salad with Apples is a sweet tart take on classic chicken salad with sweet apples and tart dried cranberries. I made this Chicken and Apple Salad on a total whim today and I'm SO glad I did. It is so delicious that I want to eat it every day for the rest of my life.

Remove the chicken from the bone; slice. Thinly slice the apples and add to the dressing along with the walnuts, escarole and endive; season with salt and pepper. This low-calorie Chicken and Apple Salad puts a zesty spin on an old childhood favorite. You can cook Chicken and Apple Salad using 11 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Chicken and Apple Salad

1. Prepare 2 lbs of skin-on, bone-in chicken breasts.
2. It's of salt and pepper.
3. Prepare 1/3 c of and 1 T vegetable oil.
4. It's 2 T of sherry vinegar or red wine vinegar.
5. It's 1 T of and 1 tsp Dijon mustard.
6. Prepare 1 tsp of honey.
7. You need 2 of Gala apples, thinly sliced.
8. Prepare 1/2 c of chopped walnuts.
9. Prepare 1 of small head escarole, torn in pieces.
10. It's 2 heads of Belgian endive, trimmed and sliced.
11. You need 1 c of shredded cheddar cheese.

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Chicken and Apple Salad instructions

1. Preheat oven to 375°F. Season chicken with 1 tsp salt and pepper to taste..
2. In large oven-proof skillet, heat 1 T oil. Add chicken skin-side down and cook until golden. Transfer skillet to oven and bake until thickest part of meat thermometer reads 165°, about 25 min. Transfer to cutting board and let rest 5 min..
3. In large bowl, whisk vinegar, mustard and honey. Gradually add oil..
4. Remove chicken from bone and slice. In large bowl, toss lettuce, apples, walnuts and dressing. Top with chicken and cheese..

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