Deb’s Chicken Salad

Ingredients

• 2 cups diced cooked chicken
• 4 cooked bacon strips, crumbled
• 1/2 cucumber, peeled and diced
• 1/2 cup thinly sliced celery
• 1/4 cup chopped Granny Smith apple
• 3/4 cup olive oil mayonnaise
• 1/4 cup reduced-fat crumbled blue cheese
• 2 tablespoons finely chopped sweet onion (such as Vidalia)
• 1 tablespoon dried basil
• 1 teaspoon lemon juice
• 1/2 teaspoon minced fresh ginger root
• 1 dash Worcestershire sauce
• Salt and ground black pepper to taste

Directions

Mix chicken, bacon, cucumber, celery, and apple in a large bowl.

Whisk mayonnaise, blue cheese, sweet onion, basil, lemon juice, ginger, Worcestershire sauce, salt, and pepper together in a bowl; pour over the chicken mixture and toss to coat.

Cover bowl with plastic wrap and refrigerate until chilled, at least 20 minutes.