Chicken Salad Susan

“Am I the only one who sees the irony of this activity in relation to your determination to lose weight?” writes my friend Susan. “Reading this blog has made me go up a dress size! Paul has brought home great bread in at least two entries. How can you resist that?”

Of course, she is right. Having spent most of my post-childbearing years at a weight unspeakably higher than that at which I was married, I spend much of our mutual conversation bemoaning my condition and planning weight loss strategies. And then I go and do a food blog. With bread.

Fortunately Susan, never one to wallow in a situation, has a solution to the issue at hand: “I’d like to introduce you to the Cooking Light website. Make these recipes look as good as the one in your blog and we will surely be svelte in no time.”

So, Susan, I am taking your advice. Tonight I made the chicken salad that we made at your beach house this summer. It is the best chicken salad I have ever had, and it is low fat. Even better, the recipe is adapted from one in Cooking Light Magazine. So there.

I renamed it Chicken Salad Susan in your honor. And before you make another comment, I only put the roll in the picture to make it look pretty. (Actually, that’s a lie. I ate it.)

Chicken Salad Susan (adapted from Cooking Light Magazine)
I never liked non-fat mayo, but I swear in this recipe you cannot tell. I think it is because of the cilantro. And, for those cilantro non-lovers out there, it doesn’t really taste like cilantro in this. I have no idea why, but I promise you’ll like it.

3 cups chopped cooked skinless chicken breast (about 3/4 lb)
1/3 cup chopped scallions
1/4 cup fat free mayo
1/4 cup fat free yogurt
1 tsp chopped cilantro
1/4 tsp salt
¼ tsp pepper

Combine ingredients. Serve.

Category: Food