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Light Chicken Salad Sandwich

By Rachael | Updated on July 25, 2024

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Light Chicken Salad Sandwiches:

A delicious chicken salad, lightened up, and filled with avocado, apple, roasted chicken, and more. This is the perfect summer lunch, and a great chicken salad. And skips the heavy mayo, and other calorie rich ingredients to give you all the flavor, but a fraction of the calories.

Serve on Sandwich Bread or a bun, croissant, for a delightful meal. And pair with Summer Fruit Salad.Light Chicken Salad Sandwiches

Chicken salad is an iconic and delicious summer salad. And there are so many versions of chicken salad: with grapes, without, with nuts, without, thick on the mayo dressing, dressing free. With so many options, how can you ever chose?

  • Tex Mex Chicken Salad
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I love Chicken Salad Sandwiches, and will pretty much eat them in any form. But, after spending hours and hours in a swim suit I choose something lighter! Who is with me? You can still get all the great flavor from chicken salad without all those pesky calories. So today I am sharing a lightened up version, with a lighter dressing, served on a lighter bread, with a great iron rich, nutrient rich spinach! Same great taste, and better for you. #Winning

Light Chicken Salad Sandwiches

The sauce is mustard based instead of mayo, and it is just enough to coat the ingredients and make them cohesive without overwhelming them or making it too “saucy” for my liking. Who wants a soggy sandwich? Not me. You guys are going to love this one, and if you are anything like me it will probably become a summer staple. Especially because it uses rotisserie chicken, which means it is a no-cook recipe. Perfect for beating summer heat.

I love avocado on everything. But in this Light Chicken Salad Sandwich it added just the right amount of creaminess! Yum.  I chopped and diced the apples, celery and cheese with a veggie cutter and it saved a lot of time preparing this already easy sandwich.  Here are a couple of my favorite tools for cutting fruits and vegetables:

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Light Chicken Salad Sandwiches

Tips for Light Chicken Salad Sandwiches:

  • Cut all the ingredients for your light chicken salad sandwiches about the same size so that you get a little bit of everything in each bite.
  • Make ahead for quick grab and go lunches, just don’t assemble until read to eat, even though it is not saucy, you don’t want the bread to get soggy.
  • Serve your light chicken salad sandwich with fresh fruit and veggies for a light and guilt free lunch.
  • Use sandwich thins for a great tasting bun. I know, I will miss the buttery croissant too, but trust me, it is better this way. (weep)
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Light Chicken Salad Sandwiches

Other Favorite Sandwich Recipes:

  • Easy Slow Cooker French Dip Sandwiches
  • Baked Chicken Parm Sandwiches
  • Italian Hero Sandwich
  • Vegetable Hummus Flatbread
  • Homemade Ice Cream Cookie Sandwich
Light Chicken Salad Sandwiches

Light Chicken Salad Sandwich

This light chicken salad is filled with avocado, apples, roasted chicken and more. It is the perfect summer lunch.
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Course: Sandwich
Cuisine: American
Keyword: chicken salad
Prep Time: 10 minutes minutes
Total Time: 10 minutes minutes
Servings: 4
Author: Rachael Yerkes

Ingredients

  • 1 cup diced cooked chicken
  • 1 cup diced apples I used fuji
  • 1/4 cup diced gruyere or whatever cheese you have
  • 1/2 cup celery diced
  • 1 avocado diced

Dressing

  • 1 tbs vinegar
  • 1 tbs mustard
  • 1 tbs sugar

Instructions

  • Mix dressing together.
  • Dice the cooked chicken.
  • Chop the apples.
  • Dice the cheese.
  • dice the celery.
  • Dice the avacodo
  • Mix all ingredients in a bowl.
  • Coat with dressing.
  • Serve with lettuce on bread of choice.

Our recipe card software calculates these nutrition facts based on averages for the above ingredients, different brands, and quality of produce/meats may have different nutritional information, always calculate your own based on the specific products you use in order to achieve accurate macros for this recipe.

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Lightened up chicken salad sandwiches with avocado

 

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  1. Sara says

    July 18, 2018 at 9:30 am

    Chicken Salad has always been one of my favorite lunches, this lighter option is amazing! Thanks for this recipe!

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    • Rachael says

      July 19, 2018 at 7:39 am

      I am so glad you like it! Thanks, it is one of our favorites.

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