# Cottage Cheese Chicken Salad

The easiest meal prep lunch that's packed with protein and a healthier alternative to traditional chicken salad.

- Cuisine: American
- Category: Salad
- Language: en

## Ingredients

- 1 heaping cup low fat cottage cheese
- 2 Tbsp Dijon mustard
- 0.5 juiced lemon
- 0.25 cup diced chives
- 1 Tbsp honey
- 0.5 tsp salt
- to taste black pepper
- 3 cups finely chopped rotisserie chicken
- 2 ribs celery
- 1 small small honeycrisp apple
- 3 sliced thin green onions
- 0.5 cup chopped pecans

## Instructions

1. To your small blender cup, add cottage cheese.
2. Blend until completely smooth, shaking the blender as needed, about 40-seconds.
3. Transfer blended cottage cheese to a small mixing bowl.
4. Add remaining ingredients for the cottage cheese dressing.
5. Whisk until completely smooth and combined, and set aside.
6. To your large mixing bowl, add rotisserie chicken.
7. Add celery, apple, onion, and pecans.
8. Pour cottage cheese dressing over top.
9. Mix until combined.
10. Taste, and adjust salt and pepper as desired.
11. Enjoy in sandwiches, wraps, or as a dip with crackers and vegetables!

## Equipment

- small blender with blender cup
- small mixing bowl
- large mixing bowl

## Source

- Original video: https://www.facebook.com/share/r/16RTwhZLAu/
- Recipe page: https://www.cliprecipe.com/recipe/a909943e-c310-4b4a-9fb7-c29a9ddb911b
- Extracted: 2025-06-25

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