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Potluck Favorite: Sweet and crunchy grape salad

Updated on October 11, 2015

Seedless grape salad with pecans and celery

This recipe replaces sugar with stevia, sour cream with Greek yogurt and you won't know the difference.
This recipe replaces sugar with stevia, sour cream with Greek yogurt and you won't know the difference. | Source

Blend cream cheese and yogurt

Use a food processor or, blender. Or combine ingredients by hand when cream cheese is room temperature.
Use a food processor or, blender. Or combine ingredients by hand when cream cheese is room temperature. | Source

Make it your own

Make this recipe your own and never share the "secret ingredient." Be prepared to bring this dish every time you are invited to a covered dish supper or summer picnic.

  • For example, convert this recipe to Grape salad with lime and peanuts.
  • Replace the vanilla with a tablespoon of lime juice, use lime zest as garnish.
  • Switch toasted pecans with dry roasted peanuts.
  • Grate rainbow carrots into the salad for color and texture.
  • Skip the pecans and add a 1/2 cup each of raisins and sunflower seeds.
  • Replace yogurt with sour cream.

When you combine fruit and nuts, sprinkle in 1 tablespoon of chopped chervil and or parsley into the salad. Top salad with 1 tablespoon coarsely chopped chervil as garnish.

Your neighbors will gladly volunteer to serve as taste testers while you perfect you own "secret recipe" version.

Grape salad fast becoming a summer favorite

5 stars from 5 ratings of Grape Picnic Salad

Cook Time

Prep time: 10 min
Ready in: 10 min
Yields: 12 servings

Gently fold in cream cheese

Choose any combination of red and green seedless grapes.
Choose any combination of red and green seedless grapes. | Source

Ingredients

  • 3 pounds seedless grapes, washed and dried
  • 1 cup celery, chopped
  • 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese
  • 1 (8 ounce) plain Greek yogurt
  • 1 1/4 teaspoon Truvia®, (or 1 TBS sugar)
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 4 ounces pecans, toasted and chopped
  • 1 Tablespoon fresh celery leaves, chopped (garnish)

Chopped celery

Celery adds the crunch. Add even more celery if you like.
Celery adds the crunch. Add even more celery if you like. | Source

Quick fix

  1. Wash and dry grapes, Add grapes, celery, nuts gently mix until evenly blended. Set aside.
  2. Process the cream cheese and Greek yogurt. Blend in Truvia and vanilla.
  3. When cream cheese mixture is blended, spoon over grape mixture. Gently combine.
  4. Cover and refrigerate. Even better the next day.
  5. garnish with a Tablespoon of chopped celery leaves or mint sprigs.

Chicken salad sandwich

Quickly convert grape salad to chicken salad with white meat chopped chicken.
Quickly convert grape salad to chicken salad with white meat chopped chicken. | Source

The best chicken salad ever

Yes, really. The best chicken salad ever.

This is your summer go - to recipe. Count on this versatile recipe to expand garden party and picnic lunch options. For a wrap or a sandwich, the recipe needs a little more moisture or dressing to hold together.

To two cups of grape salad, add two or three Tablespoons of mayonnaise/salad dressing (your favorite) and two or three teaspoons of mustard. Your mustard choice.

Combine one cup of cooked and chopped chicken breast with two cups of the grape salad above.

Serve as:

  • Salad - Serve on lettuce leaves as a chicken salad entrée.
  • Sandwich - Split a croissant or use hearty whole grain bread as a sandwich.
  • Wrap - Roll into a large lettuce lined tortilla and serve as a wrap.

Chicken salad wrap

Line a tortilla with a lettuce leaf, spoon on the chicken salad and you are ready to roll.
Line a tortilla with a lettuce leaf, spoon on the chicken salad and you are ready to roll. | Source
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