High-protein chicken salad is a delicious and easy meal prep lunch recipe you can make ahead! This cottage cheese chicken salad has the perfect creamy texture of classic chicken salad and is bursting with fresh flavors. Almost 40 grams of protein per serving and made in under 10 minutes!
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You'll Love This Cottage Cheese Chicken Salad
- It's a healthy rotisserie chicken recipe that is a healthy take on a traditional chicken salad recipe - just like our chicken salad with cranberries.
- Perfect meal prep lunch recipe for healthy low carb lunches!
- Great way to get lots of protein - almost 40 grams of protein per serving (just like our salmon quinoa salad recipe!)
- Delicious cold lunch idea to take to work or a meal for a hot summer day!
- Easy and quick high protein recipe - just like our high-protein white chicken chili.
- Fast prep time - make it in just 10 minutes.
Ingredients and Substitutions
Here are the ingredients you need to make this recipe. Reference the recipe card at the bottom for exact measurements and the notes below for substitution ideas.
- Rotisserie chicken breast - just like our pesto chicken salad. Any cooked chicken will work (like garlic chicken tenderloins).
- Low-fat cottage cheese.
- Greek yogurt or substitute sour cream if you have that on hand.
- Fresh herbs like chives, fresh parsley, or green onions.
- Everything bagel seasoning or garlic powder, poppy seeds, sesame seeds, and minced onion.
- Celery or carrots.
- Salt and black pepper to taste.
How to Make This Healthy Chicken Salad Recipe
Below are step-by-step instructions for how to cook this recipe with the best results. The recipe card at the bottom shows the exact cooking time and temperatures.
- Add the ingredients to the mixing bowl of a stand mixer or food processor.
- Mix on low or medium speed (depending on your texture preference) until well incorporated. Serve on soft sandwich bread or toast for chicken salad sandwiches, in a wrap or lettuce wrap, or as a salad topping on a bed of lettuce.
Expert Tips
- Store the leftover chicken salad in the refrigerator in an airtight container for 3-4 days.
- For an even more creamy texture, add additional Greek yogurt.
- Add some fruit like chopped apples (similar to our rotisserie chicken salad) or chopped red grapes.
- Add buffalo sauce for a healthy buffalo chicken salad.
- Sprinkle a bit of cayenne pepper for some heat.
Recipe FAQs
This protein chicken salad is an excellent source of protein. As written in the recipe card, it has almost 40 grams of protein per serving.
Shrimp is one of the highest sources of protein you can add to a salad. I like to add argentine red shrimp to salads. Unbreaded chicken tenders, rotisserie chicken, and tuna salad are also great salad topping ideas with protein.
Blended cottage cheese and Greek yogurt work as a substitute for mayonnaise in this protein chicken salad recipe. We still included a little bit of mayo to keep the classic chicken salad's tangy flavor.
Low-fat cottage cheese has almost 20 grams of serving per cup. 1 cup of rotisserie chicken has 35 grams of protein per serving.
Other Healthy Lunch Salad Recipes to Try!
High-Protein Cottage Cheese Chicken Salad with Greek Yogurt
Equipment
- 1 stand mixer or a hand mixer
Ingredients
- 0.75 cups low-fat cottage cheese
- 2 tablespoon mayonnaise
- 0.5 cups non-fat plain Greek yogurt
- 16 oz. rotisserie chicken breast
- 0.25 cups fresh parsley roughly chopped
- 1 tablespoon fresh chives snipped
- 2 tablespoon everything bagel seasoning more or less to taste
- 2 stalks celery or two medium carrots, shredded
- salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
- Wash the fresh herbs and veggies and roughly chop.0.25 cups fresh parsley, 1 tablespoon fresh chives, 2 stalks celery
- Add all the ingredients to a stand mixer and mix on low to medium speed until all of the ingredients are incorporated and the desired texture is achieved.0.75 cups low-fat cottage cheese, 2 tablespoon mayonnaise, 0.5 cups non-fat plain Greek yogurt, 16 oz. rotisserie chicken breast, 2 tablespoon everything bagel seasoning
- Season with salt and pepper to taste. Serve on toasted sourdough, in a wrap, or in a salad.salt and pepper to taste
Notes
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