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Avocado Chicken Salad Sandwiches – an easy chicken salad recipe with avocado! There’s no mayo in this recipe – it uses a combination of yogurt and avocado for a perfect protein packed chicken salad! It’s creamy and the perfect lunch!
I don’t like mayonnaise so I’ve never actually had regular chicken salad – I can’t bring myself to try it – but this is an easy chicken salad without mayo and it has avocado and lots of southwestern flavors. I could eat this all day long! Fresh, savory, and packed with protein this will become your favorite avocado chicken salad recipe!
Chicken Salad Ingredients
- Chicken – This should be already cooked and either shredded or cubed. Rotisserie Chicken is great too!
- Avocado – medium-sized and ripe avocado
- Greek yogurt – nonfat, plain yogurt is best
- Salsa – Use your favorite brand
How to Make Chicken Avocado Salad
- You can use leftover or rotisserie chicken breasts – just shred them for the salad.
- I love mashing avocado with a potato masher in a large bowl and then adding the other ingredients.
- I add salsa, salt, and pepper so I don’t need many other spices. You could even add cilantro!
- You can enjoy this on a bed of lettuce or make it into a sandwich with tomato. I also sometimes add bacon! And we love a soft bun (gluten-free if needed).
Storing Leftovers
Store chicken salad in an airtight container in the refrigerator. I don’t recommend freezing it; it’s best eaten within a few days.
Avocado Chicken Salad Sandwiches Recipe
Ingredients
- 2 cups cooked chicken (shredded or cubed, see note)
- 1 medium avocado
- ½ cup plain non-fat Greek yogurt
- ¼ cup salsa
- ½ teaspoon salt (or to taste)
- ¼ teaspoon pepper
- 8 slices Bread (or soft rolls)
- Lettuce, tomato, and/or onion, optional
Instructions
- Shred or cube the chicken as desired.
- Remove the flesh from the avocado and place in a medium bowl. Mash with a potato masher. Stir in yogurt, salsa, salt, and pepper. Stir in chicken.
- Serve chicken salad on a soft roll or toasted sliced bread. Top with lettuce, tomato, and onion if you wish!
So happy I found your page! So many recipes I want to try! Going to start with the Avocado Banana Bread and the Avocado Chicken Salad! Can’t wait to try them out on my husband and mother-in-law!! And that slow-cooker monkey bread! Oh my!!
Enjoy!! And welcome!
I love avocados and chicken sandwiches and eat them a lot. Your recipe sounds awesome and I will be trying it out. I love to cream the avocado and mix with the chicken, spread on warm flour tortilla then add little coleslaw cut cabbage. Add a touch of your favorite dressing to moisten the cabbage if you’d like. (I use raspberry balsamic, just a couple of drops.) Roll and enjoy! Now I’m off to try your recipe. BTW glad you had a great time!
If I were to make this ahead of time and try to eat it for lunch throught out the week, do you think it would hold up in the fridge ok? Or would the avocados brown and make everything nasty? Thanks!
It was on my counter for about 3 days before it finally disappeared and it was totally fine!
I just tried this recipe and served the chicken salad on a bed of baby spinach…it turned out great! 🙂
YUM! That would be so great. I’m trying it! Thanks for telling me!
This sandwich might just make me like avocados! I don’t hate them but rarely eat them. I do like chicken sandwiches 😉
Oh, I can’t get enough Avocados!! 🙂 Thanks Lyuba!
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