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Chicken salad with a curry kick | The Honolulu Advertiser | Hawaii's Newspaper
Posted on: Wednesday, August 23, 2006

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 Chicken salad with a curry kick

 •  Cool creams for those hot summer days

By Elaine Magee

I'm a chicken-salad sandwich fan from way back, and there are lots of ways to make them. I love this rendition because it uses light cream cheese instead of mayonnaise, has a pinch of curry powder, and the cashews add flavor and crunch. This chicken salad mixture is well suited for whole-grain bread, too.

This combination of ingredients makes a high-fiber and high-protein sandwich with 47 grams of protein and 6 grams of fiber, per sandwich. Although the sandwich may seem a bit high in fat (15 grams per sandwich), most of the fat grams are monounsaturated ("smart" fat); only 4.5 grams are saturated. This sandwich mixture works well on wheat crackers, too.

CHICKEN CASHEW CURRY SALAD SANDWICH

  • 3 cups skinless, boneless roasted or poached chicken breast, cut or shredded into pieces

  • 1/2 cup light cream cheese

  • 1/4 cup nonfat sour cream

  • 1/4 teaspoon curry powder (or more to taste)

  • 1/4 teaspoon salt

  • Black pepper to taste

  • 3 green onions, white and part of green, chopped

  • 1/2 cup roasted cashew pieces

  • 8 thick slices 100 percent whole-grain bread

  • 3/4 cup alfalfa sprouts

  • About 6 leaves of lettuce

    Place chicken, cheese, sour cream, curry powder, salt, pepper green onions and cashew pieces in a food- processor bowl and pulse for about 5 seconds to blend. Scrape down sides of bowl and pulse for a few seconds more. Don't overprocess.

    Assemble sandwiches by layering the chicken salad, alfalfa sprouts and lettuce leaves on the sliced bread.

    Makes 4 sandwiches.

  • Per sandwich: 490 calories, 47 g protein, 42 g carbohydrate, 15 g fat, 4.5 g saturated fat, 7.2 g monounsaturated fat, 3 g polyunsaturated fat, 100 mg cholesterol, 6 g fiber, 566 mg sodium. Calories from fat: 28 percent. Omega-3 fatty acids, .3 g; omega-6 fatty acids, 2.7 g; Weight Watchers points, 10

    Elaine Magee is a registered dietitian. Find out more at www.recipedoctor.com.
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