Nina's Chicken Salad

Here's a  recipe when you have roasted a chicken and you want to do something easy and tasty with the leftovers.

• 2 large chicken breasts, cooked (poached or baked)

• 4 stalks celery

• 1 carrot

• 1 cup sugar snap peas and/or green beans

• 1/3 cup red onion

• 1/3 cup sliced red pepper

• 1/3 cup dried plums, apricots, or cranberries

• 1 T taco seasoning (Trader Joes' makes a nice one)

• 2 tsp cumin

• 1 tsp liquid smoke

• 3 T mayonnaise

• 1 T dijon mustard

• 1 T Balsamic, raspberry or blueberry vinegar

• 1 T fish sauce

• 1/2 cup chopped parsley

• 1/2 cup chopped roasted almonds, pecans or walnuts

• 1/4 cup black sesame seeds

Here's How:

1. Chop all ingredients to desired size.

2. Mix everything together, except nuts and parsley.

3. Chill.

4. Just before serving, chop nuts , seeds and parsley and add to the mix.

5. This chicken salad is great wrapped in romaine leaves as a lettuce wrap.