Chicken Salad Chick is a traditional Southern restaurant with many homemade offerings, such as grape salad. One of their most beloved menu items is this dessert-like side dish!
This copycat recipe is simple to prepare with classic ingredients or can be lightened up using mayonnaise and Greek yogurt instead of mayo alone. When finished off with brown sugar and pecans for garnishing, this dish makes an ideal way to end a meal or provide as an afternoon snack!
Cream Cheese
Cream cheese gives this dessert salad its rich, sweet taste. It pairs beautifully with succulent red and green seedless grapes as well as crunchy pecans to provide added crunch and sweetness.
Sour cream and sugar add just enough acidity to balance out the rich sweetness of fruit and cream without becoming overly sweet. For an authentic flavor, full-fat sour cream works best, but plain Greek yogurt offers healthier alternatives with lower caloric intake.
Beat together sour cream, sugar and vanilla until smooth and creamy with an electric mixer. Fold grapes gently into the mixture before refrigerating until serving time.
Sour Cream
This copycat Chicken Salad Chick’s Grape Salad recipe makes an ideal sweet side dish or dessert for picnics, potlucks and summer barbecues. Made with seedless grapes for extra sweetness and garnished with crunchy pecans for texture – perfect for your next gathering or outdoor BBQ!
This grape salad recipe is easy and can be prepared ahead of time – simply cover and refrigerate! For those wanting a dairy-free option, tart plain Greek yogurt makes an excellent dairy-free replacement for sour cream; adding moisture without altering flavor! Alternatively, switch out for richer tasting mascarpone cheese for even richer results!
Sugar
Fresh seedless grapes drenched in a creamy dressing made with cream cheese and sugar are combined with crunching pecans for the ideal side dish at potlucks and holiday celebrations such as Easter.
This recipe is both quick and easy, guaranteed to please even the pickiest eaters! Just ensure to thoroughly rinse the grapes and remove their stems before incorporating into the dish to prevent your salad from becoming watery.
Refrigerate your salad until ready to serve; it makes an ideal side dish for lunching with your partner, light dinners or refreshing snacks. Reserve adding brown sugar and pecans until just before eating!
Vanilla Extract
Ingredients for this creamy grape salad are readily available and can be purchased from most grocery stores. Perfect as either a side dish with various main courses or even dessert, the pecans add a delicious crunch that keeps this salad from becoming bland!
Before creating this delectable salad, it is necessary to thoroughly wash and devein grapes before cutting or quartering them for use in a large mixing bowl. In another mixing bowl, beat cream cheese, sour cream and vanilla extract together until well-blended before mixing with grapes in another large mixing bowl.
Fold halved grapes into the cream cheese mixture and stir thoroughly. Cover and refrigerate before serving; garnish as desired with brown sugar or pecan pieces for decoration.
Grapes
Creamy dessert salad made of juicy seedless grapes, sour cream and sugar is easy to create; perfect for family meal or as light summer side dish.
Travels well too, making it perfect for picnics or potlucks with friends. Also makes an ideal complement to ham or chicken dishes!
Beat together cream cheese, sour cream, sugar and vanilla until smooth with an electric mixer. When ready to serve, gently fold in grape halves so they’re covered with the dressing. Refrigerate before topping with brown sugar and pecans just before.
Pecans
Pecans make an irresistibly delicious addition to this easy restaurant copycat recipe, adding both crunchy texture and sweet notes that bring this dish to a new level.
Combine chopped pecans into the cream cheese mixture prior to folding in the seedless grape halves for even distribution of pecans throughout the dish. This will ensure they will be evenly dispersed.
Serve this delightful and effortless restaurant copycat recipe at any family meal, backyard barbecue, church potluck, Easter celebration or Easter Sunday service. It travels well, making an elegant accompaniment for baked ham as well as being ideal as a light dessert option.