Chicken salad

A chicken salad made with celery, cucumber, apples, fresh dill, and mayonnaise with salt and pepper

Chicken salad is any salad that comprises chicken as a main ingredient. Other common ingredients include mayonnaise, hard-boiled egg, celery, and a variety of mustards.

In the US, it refers to a dish consisting of chopped or shredded chicken meat, mayonnaise, diced celery, and sweet or dill pickle relish (essentially tuna salad with chicken substituted for tuna). Diced yellow onion is a common addition, as is chopped hard-boiled eggs. Like tuna salad, it may be served on top of lettuce, tomato, avocado, or some combination of these. It may also be spread on bread (typically toasted bread), making a chicken salad sandwich. Typically, it is made with leftover or canned chicken.

In Europe and Asia, the salad may be complemented by any number of dressings, or indeed no dressing at all, and the salad constituents can vary from traditional leaves and vegetables, to pastas, couscous, noodles or rice.