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Avocado Chicken Salad is healthy and delicious, made with creamy avocado, lemon juice, and seasonings. It’s like your favorite guacamole meets your favorite picnic sandwich – and it’s incredible.
Are you a fan of chicken salads? Try my classic Chicken Salad recipe next!
Why I Love This Recipe
- Use less or even no mayo – The avocado is so creamy, you only need a little mayo and sour cream to help bind the salad together. Or, use more avocado and even less mayo or sour cream.
- Completely customizable and adjustable – Use as much or as little mayo as you like, add some sliced almonds or pecans or even a crisp, sweet apple.
- Filling and good for you – Avocado is not only a delicious addition to chicken salad, it’s healthier than the alternative!
Recipe Walk Through
How To Make Avocado Chicken Salad
See the recipe card below for full, detailed instructions
Mix together mayo, sour cream, lime juice, diced red onion, cilantro, and garlic powder. Keep the onion dices pretty small. You can use other types of onion that might have a milder flavor if you prefer. In place of mayo and sour cream, you could swap in plain Greek yogurt.
Stir in shredded chicken. You can make some shredded chicken in the instant pot or try my crockpot shredded chicken recipe. A rotisserie chicken or even shredded chicken in a can (Costco’s is great) will work.
Slice the avocado and remove the pit. Scoop the flesh into the bowl and gently mash with a fork, mixing as you go.
Season with salt and pepper to taste, and serve with crackers, on sliced and toasted bread for sandwiches or wrapped in a tortilla.
Avocado Slicer
If you want to be a true avocado aficionado, grab yourself an avocado slicer – this is one of my favorite kitchen gadgets! It will slice the avocado open, remove the pit, and slice the flesh, all in one cute little gadget. It’s totally worth the $10!
How To Serve
You’ve got lots of options for serving your chicken avocado salad. Here are my picks:
- With crackers – Pick your favorite cracker and dig in; I am partial to Nut Thins or multigrain crackers. Tortilla chips work perfectly, too.
- On toasted bread – Whether it’s multigrain bread or plain white bread, a sandwich is an obvious choice.
- Lettuce wraps – Living a low-carb lifestyle? This is a perfect option to keep you on track.
- Inside a tomato – Scoop out the seeds of an heirloom or vine-ripened tomato and stuff the salad inside. Or try red peppers.
- Tortilla wrap – Grab your favorite soft tortilla and wrap the salad up tightly.
- With a fork – You don’t need to use a vessel, this salad is just as delicious on it’s own as it is with any of these other choices.
Storage Tips
How to Store Leftovers
You can make this salad a day ahead of time and keep it in the fridge until you’re ready to serve.
Afterwards, store leftovers in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 3 days. The avocado shouldn’t turn brown but if it does, you can just scrape it off.
How To Pick Ripe Avocados
You want avocados that are nice and ripe but not overripe. In the store, give the avocados a little gentle squeeze in the palm of your hand (using your finger can bruise the flesh). You want the avocado to have some give to it but still be slightly firm and not at all mushy.
If all that is available are hard avocados, take those and place them in a paper bag for several days to speed up the ripening process.
More Avocado Recipes to Try
- Best Guacamole Recipe
- Easy Grilled Avocados
- Tomato Avocado Salad
- Avocado Egg Salad
- Bacon Avocado Chicken Salad
Avocado Chicken Salad
Ingredients
- ¼ cup Mayonnaise more or less as desired
- ¼ cup Sour cream more or less as desired
- 2 teaspoons Lime juice or lemon juice, depending on preference
- ½ cup Sliced red onions
- 1 tablespoon Fresh minced cilantro
- ½ teaspoon Garlic powder
- 2 cups Shredded chicken breasts about 1 large breast
- 1 Avocado
- Salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
- In a large bowl, combine mayonnaise, sour cream, lemon or lime juice, diced onions, cilantro and garlic powder until well mixed.
- Stir in shredded chicken.
- Slice the avocado in half and remove the pit. Scoop out the avocado and add it to the bowl, then gently smash into chunks as you stir it into the chicken salad mixture.
- Season with salt and pepper to taste. Add more fresh lemon or lime juice as desired.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutritional Disclaimer Kristin Maxwell of “Yellow Bliss Road” is not a dietician or nutritionist, and any nutritional information shared is an estimate. For accurate calorie counts and other nutritional values, we recommend running the ingredients through your preferred online nutritional calculator. Calories and other nutritional values can vary depending on which brands were used.
Hmmm yummy. I must try this recipe. Looks and seems to taste delicious. I am certainly going to try this superlicious recipe.