Chicken Salad Balls

May 31

Tarrant FiglioMeat, Poultry, Recipes, Salads, retro food 4 Comments

From Southern Living: Our Best Recipes. Volume 3, 1978.

1 cup cooked chicken

1 tablespoon chopped onion

2 tablespoons chopped pimiento

dash of hot sauce

1/2 cup salad dressing or mayonnaise*

1 cup chopped pecans

*the cookbook actually has a typo here that says manonnaise…maybe because they are balls? I don’t think I would use this much mayo.

Combine all ingredients, mixing well; chill several hours. Shape into 1-inch balls. Yield: about 2 dozen.

For a another interesting chicken balls recipe, though I don’t know if it qualifies as retro at all, and it isn’t chicken salad balled up see the Hot Chicken Balls Salad recipe.

4 Comments (+add yours?)

  1. Lee
    May 31, 2006 @ 07:23:44

    hot chicken balls salad? I’d never eat, but I sure like the way it sounds ;)

  2. retrofood
    Jun 01, 2006 @ 06:34:57

    I don’t know, it sounded pretty good.

  3. emsxiety
    Jun 04, 2006 @ 00:57:59

    Sounds good up until the hot sauce.

  4. retrofood
    Jun 04, 2006 @ 17:49:10

    With just dash, I am thinking that it truly doesn’t add anything to the recipe that would be on the spicy side, but rather just the dash of hot pepper sauce to make it a southern recipe.