Chicken Salad With Apple & Pistachio (Almond Or Cashew) Sandwiches

This is a flavorful chicken salad
with a bit of crunch❣️

Ingredients: 

1 1/2 cups (6 ounces) chopped cooked chicken

1/8 cup chopped pistachios, almonds or cashews

1/8 cup diced tart red apples

1 tablespoon dill pickle relish

1/8 cup chopped green onion

2 teaspoons Dijon mustard

1/4 cup avocado mayonnaise

1/2 teaspoon black pepper

1/4 teaspoon smoked paprika

4 slices of sour dough bread

butter

Method:

Place all of the ingredients a medium bowl and stir to mix. Lightly butter one side of each bread slice. (If preferred, the bread may be toasted.) Spread half of the chicken salad onto 2 of the buttered slices of bread. Top with the remaining slices of bread. Cut each sandwich in half. Makes 2 servings.

Nutritional info per sandwich, approximately: 744.4 calories ~ 36 grams fat ~ 69.76 grams carbs ~ 69.76 grams net carbs ~ 65.4 grams net carbs ~ 42.4 grams proteinAlternate Methods:

Instead of sandwiches, the chicken salad may be served on top of avocado halves. Cut the 3 avocados in half. If desired, remove the skin from the avocados. Scoop 1/4 cup of the chicken salad on top of each avocado half. Makes about 1  5/8 cups chicken salad ~ 3 to 6 stuffed avocado servings.

You can also scoop out the inside of half of a tomato and fill with the chicken salad. Or, it can be eaten as a dip with celery sticks.

Nutritional info per serving (1 avocado half), approximately: 294.57 calories ~ 25.5 grams fat ~ 10 grams carbs ~ 4 grams net carbs ~ 11.5 grams protein

Nutritional info for about a 1/2 cup portion of chicken salad, approximately: 267 calories ~ 22 grams fat ~ 3.22 grams carbs ~ 2 grams net carbs ~ 19 grams protein