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Jacque's Chicken Salad
by:    Erna Peterson  
 
Jacque's Chicken Salad Recipe is a chilled salad using green beans, Italian salad dressing, cooked chicken, mayonnaise, whipping cream, celery, lettuce, capers, tomato slices, ripe olives and hard-cooked eggs.


INGREDIENTS
1 10-ounce package frozen French-style green beans, cooked and drained, or 1 16- ounce can
1/4 cup Italian salad dressing
3 large chicken breasts, cooked and chilled
1/2 cup mayonnaise
1/4 cup whipping cream; whipped
1 cup diced celery
3 lettuce cups
2 teaspoons drained capers
6 tomato slices
Mayonnaise or salad dressing
6 ripe olives
2 hard-cooked eggs, quartered


DIRECTIONS
1: In small bowl, combine green beans and Italian salad dressing. Chill several hours, stirring occasionally.
 
2: Cut 3 thin slices of meat from chicken breasts and reserve for garnish. Cube remaining chicken. Gently fold the 1/2 cup mayonnaise into whipped cream. Fold cubed chicken, celery, 1/2 teaspoon salt, and dash pepper into mayonnaise-whipped cream mixture. Chill thoroughly.
 
3: Place lettuce cups on serving platter.
 
4: To assemble salads, spoon chilled chicken mixture into lettuce cups. Arrange reserved chicken slices and a dollop of mayonnaise atop salad mixture; sprinkle with drained capers. Drain green beans; arrange on platter between filled lettuce cups. Garnish with tomato slices, ripe olives, and hard-cooked egg wedges.
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