One thing I can’t stand about chicken salad is when it is dry, and our Kneaders copycat chicken salad sandwiches recipe is far from. Between the mix of sour cream and mayo, this rotisserie chicken recipe will be plenty moist!
With our Kneaders copycat recipe, you can make it up ahead of time and build your tasty sandwich when you are ready to eat! I actually prefer it slightly chilled so I love preparing this ahead of time and having it on a busy week night.
Even though this is an easy recipe to make up, it is one of my favorites, especially when you pair it with tasty and fresh bread. Sometimes I even pick up bread from Panera Bread before dinner.
You can make our chicken salad recipe with our Olive Garden fresh garden salad copycat recipe, citrus berry salad, or keep it simple and make up some air fryer frozen french fries. Or if you are super hungry, you can do both a salad and fries. Life is all about balance right. 😉
Ingredients You Need to Make Our Kneaders Copycat Chicken Salad Sandwiches Recipe:
- White vinegar
- Salt
- Pepper
- Mayonnaise
- Sour cream
- Celery stalks
- Green onion
- Boneless, skinless, cooked chicken breasts, shredded
Equipment Needed
For this recipe, you only need a few simple kitchen tools. We recommend using the following equipment:
How To Make Kneaders Copycat Chicken Salad Sandwiches:
- Mix vinegar, salt, pepper, mayonnaise and sour cream together.
- Mix the celery, green onion and chicken in separate bowl.
- Mix all ingredients together. Let set overnight or for a few hours for the best flavor.
- Serve on buns or rolls.
PRO TIP: Skip making the chicken and grab yourself a rotisserie chicken and just pull the chicken off and shred it with a fork.
Perfectly Flaky Croissants
You can have a wonderful chicken salad recipe, but what you serve it on can be just the added flavor and texture you need to make this recipe out of this world.
I have always loved serving chicken salad on croissants. Between the tasty buttery, flaky layers, and the creamy chicken salad, it is the perfect combination.
You can make great croissants at home with Sally’s Baking Addiction’s blog on how to make croissants. However, they are pretty time consuming to make. So, if you aren’t looking to do that, I tend to just grab some from my local grocery store’s deli, slice them and load it up with the tasty chicken salad.
I promise you cannot go wrong. Either way you are going to have a wonderfully delicious sandwich.
Notes For The Best Chicken Salad Recipe
- This recipe is so easy to throw together! You can even make it earlier in the day and keep it in the fridge until you are ready to serve.
- If you feel like the salad is a little dry, add equal parts mayonnaise and sour cream until it reaches the desired consistency.
- If you want more crunch, chop up some sliced almonds and add them in!
- Sliced grapes can add a wonderful flavor addition as well.
- A diced apple is also super tasty in chicken salad if you want to change it up a little bit.
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Kneaders Copycat Chicken Salad Sandwiches Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon white vinegar
- salt, to taste
- pepper, to taste
- 1 cup mayonnaise
- 1 cup sour cream
- 4 celery stalks, chopped
- 1 bunch green onions, chopped
- 5 boneless, skinless chicken breasts, cooked and shredded
Equipment
Instructions
- Mix vinegar, salt, pepper, mayonnaise and sour cream together.
- Mix the celery, green onion and chicken in separate bowl.
- Mix all ingredients together. Let set overnight or for a few hours for the best flavor.
- Serve on buns or rolls.
Notes
- This recipe is so easy to throw together! You can even make it earlier in the day and keep it in the fridge until you are ready to serve.
- If you feel like the salad is a little dry, add equal parts mayonnaise and sour cream until it reaches the desired consistency.
Nutrition
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Nice and easy recepie, it sounds good iaith the chicken and celery! i must be better to use the celery, it’s rarely that I remeber their excistence, and that too bad, cause they are quite cute. Have a wonderful Day and thank you for the inspiration
How is the chicken cooked?
This looks delicious!! Chicken salad is one of my favorite things for lunch!
Just a little tip- I used to work at Kneaders, and they also have Water Chestnuts and Dill Weed in the chicken salad. It’ll taste good without it, but the extra crunch is my favorite part!
@clskip, Kneaders just boils the chicken, but you could use the grill or the canned chicken. We would boil it so we could cut big chunks.
Happy cooking! 😀
How did you prepared the chickens? Did you marinate it beforehand?
Hi!
I just boiled my chicken breasts in water without marinating them, but you could cook them anyway you would like. Thanks!
Hi!
I just boiled my chicken breasts. Thanks!
sounds delicious! Just a little typo though. It should be celery “stalks”…..
i always make sandwiches for june picnics so thanks for the recipe
mmmmm…
I made this yesterday, boiled the chicken, and used plain greek yogurt instead of sour cream. VERY GOOD chicken salad – thanks!!
This was delicious! Thank you for sharing. It is excellent with the dill weed in it. I also added a couple handfuls of almonds and threw them in the food processor for about 30 seconds. I added about a cup of finely shredded carrots as well. Be sure to add the carrots last and don’t over stir or else your chicken salad will look a little too orange. 🙂 Amazing!
I like Kneaders but haven’t had their chicken salad. I’ll have to give it a try but I’ve never found a recipe I like better than the one I use which contains soy sauce. You can find it on my blog if you’d like to give it a try! It’s fantastic!
I made this the other day and it was delicious! I usually just toss chicken, mayo, chopped onion, salt and pepper…so your recipe was a little something different and it was yummy 🙂 Thank you.
I would love to see the recipe on your blog but tried to find it and couldn’t.
Try adding walnuts for extra crunch and flavour
Try adding walnuts for extra crunch and flavour
I remember years ago Kneaders put grapes in their chicken salad. When did they stop doing this??
Thanks for the recipe! If I use canned chicken, how many cans would you use?
Maybe 2 or 3 of the 12.5 ounce cans of chunk chicken breast.
The dill made a wonderful difference…thanks 🙂
Is dill weed just a spice?
Yes, you find it on the spice aisle.
For the mayonnaise would you use Hellman’s type mayo not Miracle Whip? Silly question!
Or Best Foods or even store brand works great! Hope this helps!
How much dill weed? Jar or fresh?
We just used the dill weed from the spice aisle at the grocery store.
How much dill weed and water chestnuts?
This recipe tastes great when you add craisins in it or put generous amount if cranberry sauce on the sandwich.
1. How many cups of chicken would you say is in one recipe?
2. What would be the most economical way to prepare this for 130 adults?
Thank you!
Sharon
I would say around 3-4 cups chicken in each recipe. Depending on how big your servings are or the size of your roll/buns will determine how many servings you will get. You should easily be able to get 10 servings. To feed 130 you will need to make multiple batches. You can make it ahead of time. Store in the fridge for a few days, or you can freeze it if you need to make it earlier than that. Here is another one of our chicken salad recipes that serves about the same amount of people. https://www.sixsistersstuff.com/recipe/moms-chicken-salad-sandwiches/
Best of luck feeding the masses. 🙂
We had this for dinner tonight – so good! I cut the recipe in half and it served three adults with leftover for another sandwich. I toasted the bread with some butter and olive oil in a pan first, which was really good. We served it with some garlic green beans. Thank you, this one is a keeper!
Hi Tamie. We are so glad you liked our Six Sisters copycat Kneaders Chicken Salad Sandwich recipe. It’s always a favorite. We often serve it at Baby showers/Bridal showers. Thanks so much for stopping by!
Thank you Cyd!
I don’t have mayo could I use miracle whip instead?