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Warm Chicken and Swiss Chard Salad

By Christian Reynoso
Warm Chicken and Swiss Chard Salad recipe
Photograph by Emma Fishman, food styling by D’mytrek Brown

Recipe developer Christian Reynoso describes this elegant warm chicken salad as the “grown-up version of a deli-case chicken salad I used to serve up as a teen.” But where the chicken salad of his youth had grapes and too-sweet mayo, this one is filled with bursts of chewy dates, briny olives, toasted almonds, blanched Swiss chard, and a bright citrus vinaigrette to tie everything together. Feel free to get creative by swapping in different nuts and dried fruits for the almonds and dates. Reynoso likes this salad with a side of torn baguette or sourdough rolls for making little open-face sandwiches.

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