EQUIPMENT

• chopping board
• chopping knife
• measuring equipment
• large/small mixing bowls
• mixing spoons
• parchment paper
• baking sheet

INGREDIENTS

• 3-4 chicken breasts on the bone
• 1 1/2 cups chopped celery
• 1 1/2 cups chopped green onions
• 2 cups red or green seedless grapes, sliced in quarters lengthwise
• 1/2 cup favorite mayonnaise (I use Hellmann’s)
• 1/4 cup Dijon mustard
• 1/2 lemon, juiced
• 1/8 teaspoon mild curry powder
• 4-5 sprigs, fresh dill, minced
• Salt & pepper
• Olive oil

LET’S GET STARTED

Heat your oven to 375. Cover baking dish with parchment paper. Rinse chicken breasts and pat them dry. Sprinkle salt/pepper on bottom sides, turn and lightly spread olive oil on top with salt/pepper.

Lay them skin-side up on a parchment paper-lined baking sheet.

Bake 60 mins.

While your chicken is cooking, slice grapes and chop celery and onions.

Set them in fridge in separate bowls (grapes in one bowl – celery and onions in another).

Make your mayo mixture in small bowl. Add mayo, mustard, salt/pepper, curry powder, lemon juice and chopped dill. Combine and set in the fridge while the chicken cooks.

Your chicken should be getting close to done now in the oven (60 minutes). Pull them out when they look like this:

Let them cool enough to touch (10-15 mins), then pull the skin and meat off. Discard skin and bones.

Dice warm chicken into dime-size pieces.

Now you are ready to combine ingredients. Add your onions and celery into a large bowl, then pour on the mayo mixture and combine.

Add the diced chicken and mix.

Add the grapes last so you avoid mashing them.

Taste for salt/pepper and adjust, if needed. (I wait until it’s chilled a while so ingredients can meld, then I add more whatever, if I think it needs it. That includes grapes.)

Cover the chicken salad bowl with foil or plastic wrap. Refrigerate about an hour or more until you serve it. Probably serves 6.

I like it in a warm half-pita, although it’s a very good choice for a pretty luncheon plate atop thickly sliced tomatoes/cucumbers with a warm croissant on the side. Save some of your dill sprigs to garnish on top before you serve it like a salad to yourself and your guests.