Chicken Salad with Apples, Grapes, and Spicy Pecans

This sweet, crunchy salad tastes great on its own. It also makes a good sandwich on toasted multigrain bread or in a whole-wheat pita with watercress. Prep: 25 minutes.

Yield: Makes 4 to 6 servings

Ingredients

• 1  cup  mayonnaise
• 2  tablespoons  Dijon mustard
• 1/4  cup  fruit chutney*
• 5  chicken breast halves, cooked and cut into bite-size pieces (about 6 cups)
• 2  celery ribs, chopped (about 1 cup)
• 1  cup  red seedless grapes, cut in half
• 1  tart apple, such as Granny Smith or Pippin, peeled and chopped (about 1 1/4 cups)
• 1/4  cup  chopped fresh parsley
• Sea salt, to taste
• Freshly ground pepper, to taste
• 1  cup  Spicy Pecans

Preparation

Stir together first 3 ingredients in a medium bowl. Add chicken pieces and next 6 ingredients, and gently toss. Sprinkle with Spicy Pecans, and serve immediately, or cover and chill up to 3 days.

*For testing purposes, we used Crosse & Blackwell's Genuine Major Grey's Chutney.

Sara Foster, Sara Foster's Casual Cooking: More Fresh Simple Recipes from Foster's Market, MyRecipes, APRIL 2007