Greek yogurt chicken salad is a healthy twist on a classic lunch recipe. Make this chicken salad recipe with Greek yogurt, apple celery, dried cranberries, and shredded chicken!
In my opinion, classic chicken salad isn’t classic chicken salad without the chicken, apples, dried cranberries, and celery! Today, we’re turning a popular mayo-based chicken salad recipe into a healthy, protein-packed lunch recipe that you will love.
Greek Yogurt Chicken Salad
You can’t go wrong with a chicken salad that’s made with fresh ingredients and an amazing healthy sauce that has nothing bad about it! We love making a Greek yogurt-based sauce for our chicken salad because it increases the protein and tastes good! Here’s what you need:
- Greek yogurt – feel free to use nonfat, 1%, 2%, or full-fat! You can even use normal yogurt, just make sure it’s plain.
- Lemon juice – this will give your chicken salad a bit of a zing and help give it that traditional mayo flavor.
- Honey – you can always omit this or swap it out for maple syrup instead!
- Garlic powder – feel free to add more garlic depending on your tastebuds.
- Salt and pepper – salt and pepper to taste, as always!
Once you’ve got your sauce figured out it’s time to assemble the rest of your ingredients. First things first, let’s talk shredded chicken! There are many ways to make shredded chicken and we prefer to do this in the slow cooker or Instant Pot. This recipe calls for 1 lb. of boneless, skinless chicken breast, so just make sure you have things fully cooked and shredded before you get going with the rest of the recipe.
Greek Yogurt Chicken Salad Ingredients
- Shredded chicken
- Green apple
- Red onion
- Celery
- Dried cranberries
Serving Suggestions
Greek yogurt chicken salad is such a great meal prep lunch idea. You can put it in a mason jar and eat just that or you can pack it in a meal prep container with more veggies, chips, etc. Here are some serving suggestions.
- On a piece of toast
- In a tortilla with lettuce
- With chips or crackers
- In a piece of ice burg lettuce (low carb option!)
Storage
We suggest storing your chicken salad in a glass meal prep container in the refrigerator. This should last you anywhere from 3-5 days. Note that you can always double or triple this recipe if you are looking to feed a crowd becuase it’s a great thing to bring to a work funciton, picnic, or party!
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Greek Yogurt Chicken Salad
Ingredients
- 1 lb. cooked, shredded chicken breast
- 1 large green apple finely chopped
- 1/4 cup red onion finely diced
- 2 large celery stalks finely diced
- 1/3 cup dried cranberries or Craisins
- 1/2 cup nonfat Greek yogurt
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 1 tablespoon honey
- 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- pepper to taste
Instructions
- Place shredded chicken, green apple, red onion, celery, and dried cranberries into a large bowl. Mix and set aside.
- Create the sauce by mixing together Greek yogurt, lemon juice, honey, garlic powder, salt, and pepper.
- Add sauce to the shredded chicken mixture and mix until combined.
I highly recommend this recipe to anyone looking for a healthy and delicious meal. The author provided nutritional information and alternatives to make the dish fit a variety of dietary needs. I felt good about feeding it to my family.
This really held up for meal prep this week. Pic doesn’t look the best but it was still crunchy and non-watery by Friday after prepping on Monday! Used a mix of raisins and cranberries as I couldn’t get my hands on craisins.
Delish!
Like another reviewer I used Smoked Chicken Breast. I skipped the raisins as I’m the only one in family that likes them. I loved this recipe but will add the raisins next time for my portion as it would benefit from one more sweet pop of flavor beyond the apples and hint of honey.
Loved this recipe! The perfect healthy recipe. I used apples, celery and grapes it turned out perfect
Yay!
I made this with leftover smoked chicken it was phenomenal! So easy and delicious. I don’t like sweets so I loved this savory way to get some probiotics in.
I made this for lunch yesterday and it was delightful! Loved the Greek yogurt sub for the Mayo. Leftovers were even better. Thanks FFF <3
Just made this yesterday. Subbed the green apple for forelle pear and left out the craisins. It was delicious. Next time i think i’ll add a bit of curry powder and garam masala.
Yum! This is delicious and the calories and protein are great! I added pecans and removed the onion and celery. But I would make this again!
Made this last night for a quick meal prep for the next 2 days. Even my picky boyfriend said it was delicious! The only thing I left out was the apple and I subbed raisins for craisins since that’s all I had. Super quick and easy to put together!
Love that!!!
Delicious, followed recipe exactly. Portion it out for lunch on thin rice crackers. Savory and sweet!
Love the OLIVES . Definitely, the best part of this delicious salad!!
Maybe leave out the garlic powder since it’s basically a sweet salad.