This Strawberry Chicken Salad is a refreshing and flavorful chicken salad featuring fresh juicy strawberries, tender grilled chicken, fresh basil and crunchy almond slivers all tossed in a tangy poppy seed dressing. Perfect for a spring or summer meal or picnic.

With a creamy and a little sweet and tangy dressing made from mayonnaise and homemade poppy seed dressing, this chicken salad is a nice change up from the norm. Mixed in some beautiful, diced ripe strawberries and this salad is appropriately dressed for spring. Some slivered almonds add a nice crunch and a little fresh basil is a prelude to summer.

Grilled Chicken

Made with grilled chicken for extra flavor, this is one of my favorite chicken salad recipes. You can either grill the chicken in a grill pan or on a gas grill. First season it with salt and pepper and drizzle with a little olive oil and lemon juice. Cook it until it reaches an internal temperature of 165 degrees.
Variations and Substitutions

Add some crumbled goat cheese or blue cheese crumbles.

Use pecans or walnuts in place of almonds.

Blueberries, raspberries, or blackberries can be used in place of strawberries.

Storage

Leftovers will keep for 4 days in an airtight container in the refrigerator. If you don’t plan on eating it all right away, don’t sprinkle the almonds on it until just before eating. They will get soggy in the refrigerator.

Whether you serve it on top of a bed of lettuce as a...