26 Best Fresh & Flavorful Chicken Salad Recipes
Chicken salad is one of those timeless dishes that fits every occasion—light lunches, meal prep, picnics, potlucks, or quick weeknight meals when you want something delicious without turning on the stove.
🥗 Light, Fresh & Easy: The Best Chicken Salad Recipes
Whether you love it creamy and classic, bright and fruity, crunchy and veggie-packed, or bold with herbs and spices, there’s a chicken salad out there for every craving.
This roundup brings together the best chicken salad recipes to inspire your next meal.
From traditional mayo-based favorites to modern twists with fresh ingredients and big flavors, you’ll find simple, versatile, and totally crave-worthy ideas to mix up your lunch routine.
Healthy California Chicken Salad Recipe With Grapes
Lightened up chicken salad that’s sweet, savory and a bit tangy.
Greek yogurt makes a healthy swap with traditional mayo and grapes keep it juicy and fresh. Go to recipe.
Sonoma Chicken Salad with Creamy Poppy Seed Dressing
This chicken salad brings together tender diced chicken, juicy halved grapes, crisp celery and toasted pecans, all coated in a creamy poppy-seed dressing.
It’s sweet, crunchy and refreshing — a great pick for a light lunch or casual dinner. Go to recipe.
Jalapeno Chicken Salad
This Jalapeño Chicken Salad packs a creamy, flavorful kick with tender chicken, crisp veggies, and just the right amount of spice!
Perfect for sandwiches, wraps, or a quick low-carb lunch! Go to recipe.
Mexican Chicken Salad Recipe
This Mexican Chicken Salad is packed with super flavorful ingredients. a creamy, spicy dressing with charred vegetables and a hint of lime.
A delicious chicken salad to serve on its own or in a wrap, rolls, hoagies, pita bread, or crackers. Go to recipe.
Crispy Chicken Salad with Sriracha Honey BBQ Dressing
Learn how to make a crispy chicken salad that’s drizzled with sriracha honey bbq dressing! The chicken tenders are perfectly juicy and tender on the inside with that crispy panko crust on the outside.
You’ll love this easy crispy chicken salad! Go to recipe.
Creamy Dill Chicken Salad
A creamy dill chicken salad sandwich made with fresh dill, mayo, yogurt, garlic, chicken and red onion. The perfect summer sandwich. Go to recipe.
Asian Chicken Salad
Fresh, flavorful, and light, this Asian Chicken Salad is perfect for lunch!
It’s quick to throw together and will leave you feeling satisfied without being weighed down to keep you going the rest of your day. Go to recipe.
Mexican Chicken Salad
This zesty, flavor-packed chicken salad comes together in just 20 minutes using rotisserie chicken, creamy yogurt-mayo dressing, and bold spices like cumin and chili powder.
It’s perfect for wraps, crackers, or potluck spreads — fresh, fast, and meal-prep friendly. Go to recipe.
Chicken Salad Tortilla Bowl
Chicken salad tortilla bowl is perfect for healthy lunch. Not only fulfilling, it also taste really fresh and delicious. Go to recipe.
Creamy Chicken Salad with Cherries
Next level chicken salad recipe with dried cherries that is the perfect blend of creamy, tangy, sweet, and savory. Go to recipe.
Chicken Salad with Wild Rice
Super delicious and hearty, this chicken salad has wild rice, grapes, celery, and cashews. It can be served as a wrap or as side, as well as a main dish salad on a bed of lettuce. Go to recipe.
Olivier Salad
This Olivier salad or Russian salad is my absolute favorite. Chicken breast, potatoes, carrots, dill pickles are finely chopped and mixed together.
Mayonnaise and mustard bond everything to absolute deliciousness. Go to recipe.
Thai Chicken Salad with Peanut Dressing
I combined the idea of my favorite peanut chicken recipe with the zesty coleslaw dressed with light Thai inspired flavors like lime, ginger, cilantro, and garlic. Go to recipe.
Greek Chicken Salad Recipe
This Greek Chicken Salad combines juicy, herb-marinated chicken breasts, crunchy cucumbers, ripe tomatoes, kalamata olives, creamy avocado, and tangy feta for a healthy, complete, and super satisfying meal.
Easy to make, meal prep friendly, and endlessly customizable! Go to recipe.
Wendy’s Apple Pecan Salad with Chicken Copycat Recipe
Wendy’s Apple Pecan Salad combines sweet, savory, and crunchy all in one bowl. This easy copycat recipe tastes just like the restaurant favorite! Go to recipe.
Easy Rotisserie Chicken Salad Recipe
Classic Chicken Salad Recipe is filled with creamy, savory goodness and comes together fast. Ideal for potlucks, picnics, or easy weekday lunches! Go to recipe.
Chicken Pesto Pasta Salad
This chicken pesto pasta salad recipe is perfect for summer. This healthy, simple salad that is quick to prepare and perfect for a BBQ! Go to recipe.
Sweetgreen Harvest Bowl Recipe
This Sweetgreen Harvest Bowl Recipe is an easy copycat version of one of Sweetgreen’s tastiest fall salad recipes.
It’s made with chicken, goat cheese, sweet potato, kale, apple and almonds. Then topped with Sweetgreen’s balsamic vinaigrette. Go to recipe.
Panera Greek Salad (Panera Bread Copycat)
This Panera Greek Salad is an easy to make, homemade version of Panera Bread’s delicious Greek Chicken Salad.
Topped with Panera’s Greek Dressing, this is a salad recipe you’ll want to make again and again. Go to recipe.
Panera Asian Sesame Salad
This copy cat Panera Asian Sesame Chicken Salad has the best sweet and savory sesame soy dressing. Go to recipe.
Cilantro Lime Chicken Salad
This zesty Cilantro Lime Chicken Salad is so fresh! Perfect on it’s own, on top of mixed greens, or in a sandwich. Go to recipe.
10-Minute Curried Chicken Salad Recipe
Coronation chicken (aka curried chicken salad) pairs tender chicken and a creamy mayonnaise-based dressing with mango chutney, dried apricots, and nutty almonds.
It’s packed with flavor, and whips up in just 10 minutes! Go to recipe.
Cranberry Chicken Salad
Cranberry chicken salad is a delightful combination of sweet cranberries, crunchy pecans, tender chicken, and creamy dressing that come together to make a scrumptious, colorful dish! Go to recipe.
Hawaiian Rice Salad (Cold Brown Rice Salad with Chicken & Pineapple)
This bright, creamy cold rice and chicken salad blends brown rice, juicy pineapple tidbits, tender chicken and crunchy celery for a refreshing spin on classic chicken salad. Go to recipe.
Cranberry Walnut Chicken Salad With Fresh Rosemary
Cranberry walnut chicken salad with fresh rosemary, is a delicious and light lunch or dinner. Chunks of breast meat are tossed with plump, dried cranberries, tart and crunchy Granny Smith apples, walnuts, and fresh rosemary. Go to recipe.
Lemon Basil Chicken Salad
This Lemon Basil Chicken Salad makes a great easy lunch! It’s made with rotisserie chicken, a creamy basil dressing, and is perfect served in a wrap or on a sandwich. Go to recipe.
🥒 Fresh, Easy & Perfect for Any Meal
Chicken salad proves that simple ingredients can create something truly delicious.
Whether you’re packing lunches for the week, prepping for a picnic, or just craving a refreshing meal, these recipes bring texture, flavor, and a whole lot of convenience to the table.
Which version will be your new go-to? Let me know in the comments when you try one! And don’t forget to save this roundup—you’ll want these fresh, flavorful chicken salad ideas on hand all year long.
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