A couple tips to make this salad a success: A.drain the fruits very well resort to draining on paper towels if necessary B.Lightly stir in the mango just before serving C. Do not store uneaten salad (unless the mango has been left out) D. Add a little garlic powder and half the coconut extract to the dressing and last by not least try adding some finely minced red onion. Great salad when above steps are followed. Thanks Robyn
A couple tips to make this salad a success: A.drain the fruits very well resort to draining on paper towels if necessary B.Lightly stir in the mango just before serving C. Do not store uneaten salad (unless the mango has been left out) D. Add a little garlic powder and half the coconut extract to the dressing and last by not least try adding some finely minced red onion. Great salad when above steps are followed. Thanks Robyn
This sounded like a good idea but it turned out pretty gross. After the salad sits for a little while the enzymes in the mangoes turn the chicken to mush and make the mayo all watery. The coconut extract was pretty overpowering as well. If you make it try cutting back on the coconut season it with salt and pepper (it NEEDS some more flavor) and don't add the mayo and mangoes to the rest of it until you're ready to serve it.
it was a little too sweet for my taste and while it cookeed it dried out a little bit. But when i was put with rice it was pretty good.
It was either the water chestnuts or the sour cream that made this not so wonderful. I think I'll make it again and omit both of those just use a light mayo.
I thought that this salad was pretty bland. It's definitely missing "something". Also I followed the suggestions of previous reviewers and made sure to drain the fruit well but it didn't help. This salad still started to get watery. Disappointing.
I found this recipe with an ingredient search for chicken water chestnuts and mayo. I had a rotisserie chicken to use up and I wanted to make chicken salad. I didn't have celery but I did have a can of water chestnuts. This recipe still calls for celery. I dehydrate a lot of foods for the pantry so I added a tsp of my celery powder and a tsp of crushed dried celery leaves for flavor. Another review said this salad needed onion so I minced up some leftover onions from last night's BBQ and added about 2 Tbs for some crunch and flavor. I didn't have mango and other reviewers said it caused problems in storage so I skipped it. I used crushed canned pineapple pressed dry; it yielded just shy of a cup. No canned mandarin oranges but I have dehydrated mandarines (they taste like orange licorice) so I chopped up a couple Tbs and added them. I used the recommended sour cream and mayo and a generous twist from the salt grinder to bring out the flavors. After sitting in the refrigerator about 7 hours I tested it with some crackers. Good. Not good enough to make again but a great save of a rotisserie chicken and using what I had on hand.
