Shredded Chicken Salad Recipe (Costco Style)
A delicious and versatile shredded chicken salad recipe that tastes so much like Costco's. Great for baby and bridal showers, picnics, meal prep, it's naturally Whole30, paleo, and low carb friendly.
Ingredients
- 3 poundsboneless skinless chicken breasts (or 2 ¼ pounds cooked chicken, see notes)
- 132-ounce carton chicken broth (or chicken stock)
- 1 ¼ cupmayonnaise (plus more to taste)
- 2 cupsfinely diced celery
- ¾ cupfinely minced sweet onion
- 1 teaspoonfreshly ground black pepper (or use 2 teaspoons everything seasoning, see notes)
- 1 ½ teaspoonssalt
Directions
- 1
Cook the chicken: place the chicken breasts in a wide skillet and cover with chicken broth. Bring to a boil then reduce heat to a simmer; cover and cook about 20-25 minutes or until chicken breasts are cooked through and reach 160º F internally. Remove from skillet but reserve broth.Alternately, use 2 ¼ pounds (36 ounces) cooked chicken with the skin removed.
- 2
Shred the chicken using your selected method from Notes.
- 3
Place all ingredients but chicken broth in a large bowl (mayonnaise, celery, sweet onion, salt, and black pepper) and stir together.
- 4
Add chicken broth, 1 tablespoon at a time, to the mixture until the desired texture and creaminess is reached. I use about 4-6 tablespoons of chicken broth. Add more mayo to taste, if desired.