Classic Creamy Chicken Salad

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated July/August 1997

Roasted chicken breasts and hand-shredding deliver a superb salad.

SERVES 6

TIME 1¼ hours

Classic Creamy Chicken Salad

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

To perfect our chicken salad recipe so that our chicken actually tasted good, not bland or waterlogged, we tried wet cooking methods, including poaching and steaming, roasting in foil (which is similar to steaming), and, in a method new to ...

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