Delicious creamy chicken salad combined with sweet grapes and crunchy pecans! This easy recipe makes an impressive presentation quickly.
Chicken Salad Chick restaurants make this easy copycat recipe an incredibly popular side dish, perfect for picnics or special lunches.
Cream Cheese
This copycat grape salad recipe uses ingredients readily available at your local grocery store or refrigerator, making this quick and simple dish perfect for lunch with a friend or dessert at any outdoor barbecue event. Finished off by topping it off with brown sugar and pecans for optimal presentation!
Mix softened cream cheese, sour cream, sugar, vanilla extract, and grapes together until well mixed in a mixer until completely combined. Fold grapes gently into mixture using rubber spatula until evenly covered by creamy mixture; chill until ready to serve chilled and top with brown sugar or nuts of your choice for presentation.
Sour Cream
Chicken Salad Chick restaurants feature this tasty grape salad as one of their signature side dishes, but it makes an equally great light dessert option! Juicy red and green seedless grapes are mixed together in a sweet cream cheese dressing made with brown sugar and pecans – and now you can easily recreate this copycat recipe at home!
To create this delectable dessert, mix cream cheese and sour cream until smooth in a bowl, adding in the granulated sugar and vanilla extract before mixing again until everything is evenly combined.
Fold the grapes into the mixture, transfer to a serving bowl, cover and refrigerate until ready to serve, then sprinkle with brown sugar and pecans right before you do!
Sugar
If there’s no Chicken Salad Chick restaurant nearby, this tempting copycat recipe allows you to enjoy their flavorful and refreshing side dish without making the trip all the way there. For an added sweet touch, add brown sugar and/or pecans for an irresistibly decadent dessert-like treat!
Mix Neufchatel (or cream cheese), sour cream, sugar and vanilla until well mixed together in a large bowl. Gently fold in vanilla extract until fully incorporated. Refrigerate before refrigerating to serve. This delicious grape salad recipe makes an ideal appetizer or side dish for lunches, light suppers, potlucks, baby showers picnics or cookouts and will keep in an airtight container in the fridge for three days!
Vanilla
Vanilla adds subtle sweetness to this creamy grape salad, making it perfect as either a dessert or light snack. Add even more sweetness by including mini marshmallows!
Use either granulated sugar or brown sugar for this recipe. For optimal flavor, use only high quality vanilla extract.
This copycat recipe of Chicken Salad Chick’s popular side grape salad should not be missed! The original contains red and green seedless grapes tossed with creamy dressing topped with pecans; so, this must-try version must also!
Grapes
This dish, featuring creamy cream cheese, sour cream, and sugar, also boasts seedless grapes and crunchy pecans – ideal as either a side dish or dessert!
Clean and dry the grapes before tossing them in a sweet cream cheese dressing to ensure that the ingredients cling to them instead of sinking to the bottom of your bowl. This step will ensure optimal results!
Be creative in adding extra ingredients, like chopped celery for extra crunch or mini marshmallows to add an unexpected element. Or you could double the cream cheese dressing and use it as a fruit dip with apple slices, pretzels, graham crackers, animal crackers or vanilla wafers!
Pecans
Pecans elevate this salad beyond mere side salad status to become an irresistibly delightful treat or light dessert or snack, perfect for summer picnics, potlucks or lunching on the patio.
Beat together cream cheese, sour cream and sugar until smooth. Fold in chopped roasted pecans and brown sugar before refrigerating until ready to serve.
Pecans may be left out if desired or serving to someone with an allergy, making this recipe ideal for brunch buffets and served alongside baked ham. Plus it keeps for several days in the refrigerator – perfect if planning ahead!