Chicken Salad is one of those recipes that has a thousand variations. In my opinion, they’re almost ALL wonderful.

Many chicken salad recipes, however, contain sugar or ingredients that aren’t Keto-approved. So we came up with a chicken salad recipe that is easy to make, delicious, and low in the carb department.

Rebecca and I like to make a big batch of chicken salad on the weekend because it makes lunches throughout the week extremely easy. Also, it’s one of those dishes that tastes better the day after it’s made. All the flavors have a chance to blend and get all good together in the fridge over night!

This chicken salad goes great on a salad (a chicken salad salad? hehe), works well as a sandwich on some keto bread (with bacon, yum!!!), or as a dip for pork skins or even celery.

The tarragon brings a nice, fresh, aromatic flavor to the party while the almonds provide some texture. If you use full fat mayo, and you absolutely should, then you have your fat macro soundly taken care of as well. It’s a win win all the way around.

Ingredients – Notes

Chicken Thighs

Of course, chicken thighs are the primary ingredient in our chicken salad recipe. You can use other parts of the chicken, but the chicken thigh is the fattiest, most flavorful part of the animal.

It’s important to purchase good quality meat from farmers that actually care for the animals. Pasture raised – Hormone Free – No Antibiotics…. These aren’t just words that are important to people, they’re important to the animal as well. Sure, we eat them because we need food. But that’s no reason not to respect them.

That’s why we like to get our chicken thighs (and the rest of our meats) from Porter Road. Check out their Chicken Thighs Here

Porter Road is a Nashville-based business that sources their meat from local, Middle TN farmers who genuinely care for the animals. And they ship all over the country!

If you’re interested in seeing where Chicken Thighs rank against other meats on Keto, you can check out our post where we compare 50 cuts of meat to find out which ones are best for Keto.

Veggies

We typically just pick up our celery and onions from the local grocery or farmer’s market.

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Tarragon has also been used medicinally to treat digestive problems, poor appetite, water retention as well as regulating menstruation and promoting sleep. I can’t speak to the validity of any of these treatments. It’s just what I discovered when I was researching tarragon.

Mostly, I just like the way it smells and tastes! Especially with chicken.

Mayonnaise

I mentioned full fat mayo already. And sure… you could buy that at the store like a chump 😉

OR….

You could make it yourself using our super easy recipe HERE

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We use Monkfruit in the brine to lend a little balance to the meat. It won’t make your chicken salad sweet, per se. But it will help round out the flavors after the brine.

In the chicken salad recipe, Monkfruit is listed as an optional ingredient. A lot of people like things like grapes or raisins in their chicken salad because that sweet little pop brings a high note to the creaminess of the salad.

If you don’t want that sweetness, please feel free to leave it out. The chicken salad will be just as good without it. This is a preference thing.

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Recipe Instructions – Notes

This recipe is extremely easy. The only part that might seem intimidating is the first step: brining the chicken thighs.

For some reason, people think this is a hard step. Truth be told, you could skip it.

Brining your chicken, though, makes the meat more flavorful and moist. And brining involves so little time and effort, it’s absolutely worth taking that extra step.

If you’ve never brined your chicken, I encourage you to give it a try. I know you’ll be pleasantly surprised.

I want to take a moment to stress the importance of patting the chicken thighs dry before you season them and put them on the baking sheet to cook. People often make the mistake of leaving too much moisture on their meat when they cook it.

It takes a lot of heat energy to evaporate the moisture from the surface of the meat. And the moisture HAS to evaporate before the fats in the skin will begin to render.

It’s better to have that heat energy cooking the meat and making the skin of the chicken thigh crispy. That means the fat is rendering from the skin, basting the meat and making it extra juicy.

If there’s too much moisture, the water will evaporate first before the skin starts to cook. And when the meat is finished cooking, the skin will still be rubbery (or flaccid), which means it’s still holding onto its fat. If the fat is still in the skin, it’s not in the meat. And the meat will be dry.

Everything else in the recipe instructions below is straight forward and needs no further explanation.

Thanks for Reading

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