***Sugar Free Pecan Recipe

Delicious sugar free pecan recipe chicken salad with grapes and celery sticks.Dieting can be difficult enough with eating boring food day after day. To successful diet you need to find some great recipes that will shake up those taste buds and make eating a pleasure.

Here is a great chicken, grape, and pecan recipe that will make lunchtime a real pleasure. Best of all it is low in saturated fats, high in protein and antioxidants, sugar free and easy and simple to make.

Sugar Free Pecan Recipe:

Chicken, Grape And Pecan Salad

Ingredients

ã» Four skinless boneless chicken breasts

ã» salt and pepper to take

ã» ½ cup of grapes cut in half (red or green)

ã» ½ cup of chopped pecans

ã» ½ cup of light mayonnaise

Sugar Free Pecan Recipe:

Directions:

Boil or roast chicken breasts seasoning with desired amount of salt and pepper. Allow to cool and cut into small chunks or shred. Place in mixing bowl and add grapes and chopped pecans. Mix with mayonnaise and refrigerate.

How To Serve

This chicken salad with grape and pecans recipe can be served in a couple of different ways. You can place a lettuce leaf on a plate and put a scoop of chicken salad in the middle and serve with reduced calorie crackers. You can serve it as a sandwich in pita bread or wrap with shredded lettuce, or you can use it to make a stuffed tomato.

This salad also makes a great lunch when served with carrot and celery sticks or simply eaten as is for a light high protein snack. The addition of grapes and pecans to the traditional chicken salad recipe adds different textures and flavors to this simple salad and also gives you added antioxidants from both the grapes and the pecans.

This salad is great for those bridge luncheons or simply when you have friends over. While this salad is great for dieters it can be served to anyone who loves the flavor of chicken salad and it seems to be a big hit with kids as well as adults.

For those of you who don't like chicken you can make this same salad with either tuna or shrimp and both are equally delicious.

Pecans are a very versatile and healthy addition to a number of foods and this chicken, grape, pecan recipe is just one of the many salad recipes using pecans that can be found. For more recipes try exploring the web or get a Southern cookbook as pecans are the nuts of choice in this region of the United States.

Keep in mind that losing weight doesn't have to mean eating tasteless meals. It simply means finding those tempting recipes that are low in calories and high in flavor.