Amy's Chicken Salad

I keep the ingredients to this salad on hand in the summer. It's a nice salad to eat on a hot summery day. I love the cucumbers and cashews in it. As you can see, it's not your Grandma's chicken salad!!! It's BETTER! Why it's practically slap your momma good!!! :)

Amy's Chicken Salad

3 chicken breasts
1/2 cup cucumber, peeled and seeded
1/3 cup mayonnaise
1/4 onion powder
1/2 cup chopped red apple
1/2 cup cashew halves
1/2 tsp. sugar
salt and pepper, to taste


Rinse chicken and place in a medium saucepan. Cover with water and sprinkle generously with lemon pepper. Cover and slowly simmer until tender. Remove from pan, cool, cube or shred and set aside.

Place mayonnaise in bowl. Place unpeeled, chopped apple in bowl and toss gently to coat all pieces with mayonnaise. Stir in sugar, onion powder, salt and pepper. Gently toss chicken into bowl. Cover and chill several hours.

JUST BEFORE SERVING: Stir in cucumbers and cashews. If you add them before this, the cucumbers will become mushy and the cashews will not stay crunchy.