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St. Louis-Style Chicken Salad

St. Louis-Style Chicken Salad Recipe

Entered for safe-keeping, adapted from Denise Evans, "Eat Laugh Love". I am fascinated by local food fetishes, and this was based on Straub's Market's version. This is comfort food, no calorie spared. I normally pressure cook bone-in skin-on chicken to get moist, rich chicken; Recipe #369106 is my go-to recipe (be sure to save the chicken stock for another recipe). If you don't want tiny black specks, use white pepper. It may not be authentic Straub's-style, but I would be tempted to replace the sour cream with Calabro All Natural Whole Milk Ricotta (if available) or Galbani Sorrento Original Ricotta Cheese (whole milk) -- these are premium ricottas, a world apart from the standard supermarket ricotta.
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Prep Time 12 mins
Course Appetizer/Salad
Cuisine American
Calories 227.3 kcal

Ingredients
  

  • 3 cups cooked chicken breasts, diced
  • 2 large celery ribs, diced
  • 1/2 red bell pepper, seeded and diced
  • 2 green onions, finely diced
  • 6 tablespoons Hellmann's mayonnaise ("Real" Mayonnaise)
  • 6 tablespoons sour cream or 6 tablespoons premium ricotta cheese
  • 4 ounces feta with sun-dried tomato and basil, crumbled
  • 2 teaspoons dried dill weed
  • 1 pinch salt
  • fresh ground black pepper or white pepper, to taste

Instructions
 

  • In a large bowl, mix together the chicken, celery, bell pepper, and green onions.
  • In a small bowl, stir together the mayonnaise, sour cream, feta cheese, and dill weed.
  • Pour sauce over the chicken and stir to blend. Taste and season with salt and pepper as desired.
  • This is best refrigerated for 4 hours or more before serving, covered with plastic wrap.

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Nutrition

Serving: 133gCalories: 227.3kcalCarbohydrates: 5.6gProtein: 21.6gFat: 12.8gSaturated Fat: 3.6gCholesterol: 68.9mgSodium: 208.6mgFiber: 0.7gSugar: 2.3g
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