Description
This cottage cheese chicken salad with banana peppers is a quick and nutritious weeknight meal. Perfect for family dinners or easy dinners, it combines fresh ingredients for a tasty protein salad that everyone will enjoy.
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 cup rotisserie chicken chopped into small chunks
- ½ cup low-fat (2% milkfat) cottage cheese blended smooth
- ¼ cup jarred banana peppers mild or spicy diced
- ¼ cup red onion diced
- ¼ cup celery diced
- 2 tablespoon green onion thinly sliced
- ½ teaspoon Dijon or spicy mustard
- ½ teaspoon garlic powder
- ¼ teaspoon salt and pepper
Instructions
- Process the cottage cheese with mustard, garlic powder, salt, and pepper in a food processor until the mixture is smooth.
- In a large bowl, mix the blended cottage cheese with the chopped chicken, banana peppers, red onion, celery, and green onion.
- Stir everything together thoroughly, taste the salad, and add more salt or pepper if desired.
- Serve the salad immediately or refrigerate until ready to enjoy.
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 0 minutes
- Category: Dinner, Lunch
- Method: Stovetop
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Calories: 175.9 kcal
- Sugar: 2.8 g
- Sodium: 878 mg
- Fat: 6.3 g
- Saturated Fat: 2.1 g
- Carbohydrates: 6 g
- Fiber: 0.9 g
- Protein: 24.7 g
- Cholesterol: 67.5 mg