Curry chicken salad lettuce cups
10 min · 49 g protein · 392 cals / serving
Ready-cooked chicken tossed in a golden curry yogurt dressing with crunchy celery, a few sweet grapes, toasted almonds and cilantro, spooned into soft butter-lettuce cups. Ten minutes from a pack of pulled chicken, and the salad keeps for a second lunch.
Ingredients
Curry dressing
- scant 1/2 cup nonfat Greek yogurt
- 1 tbsp light mayonnaise
- 2 tsp curry powder, mild or medium
- 2 tsp lemon juice
- 1/3 tsp salt
- about 2 1/2 cups rotisserie chicken, ready-pulled or pre-sliced cooked chicken (or from a rotisserie chicken, skin removed)
- 2 stalks celery, diced
- 12 red seedless grapes, halved
- 2 green onions, thinly sliced
- 2 tbsp fresh cilantro, chopped
- 2 tbsp chopped almonds, ready-toasted flaked almonds
- 1 head butterhead lettuce, separated into 8–10 cup-shaped leaves
Steps
- Stir the yogurt, mayonnaise, curry powder, lemon juice and salt together in a large bowl.
- Add the chicken, celery, grapes, green onion and cilantro and fold until everything is coated. Taste and add a squeeze more lemon or a pinch more curry powder if you like.
- Spoon the salad into the lettuce cups, scatter over the almonds and eat with your hands.
Good to know
Can I make it ahead?
Yes: the dressed chicken keeps 2 days in a closed box in the fridge, and the flavour is even better on day two. Keep the lettuce and almonds separate so they stay crisp, and fill the cups when you eat.
Can I use more grapes, or raisins?
Sweetness is part of the classic, so add to taste: a full cup of grapes instead of twelve brings it closer to the deli-counter version, at about 68 instead of 72.
Can I use a whole rotisserie chicken?
Yes, it is the classic start. Pulling 2 1/2 cups of meat off a warm bird and dropping the skin adds about 3 minutes; the rest of the chicken makes tomorrow's lunch.
Alternative
Per
- Calories
- 108
- Protein
- (50%)
- 13 g
- Fat
- (36%)
- 4 g
- Carbohydrates
- (14%)
- 4 g
- of which sugar
- 2 g
- Fiber
- 1 g
- Sodium
- 284 mg
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As written, 784 kcal goes into the pot and 728 g of ingredients comes out as about 728 g of food: 108 kcal per 100 g. Cooking moves water and energy density is the score's biggest lever, so the dish is scored as cooked, not as an average of its parts. Every ingredient links to its food page, with the same data and score. The label's percentages are each macronutrient's share of the calories. The full formula.