Gourmet Betty's Chicken Salad

 This Chicken Salad is simple to make and delicious to eat.  Enough Wasabi to create the punch chicken salad without it being too spicy or overpowering.  If you want to take it up a notch add some real wasabi powder.  ** In a local taste test this dish rated 82% Excellent and 18% Good -- that means that 100% of the taste testers really liked this Chicken Salad. (No one selected didn't like)

2 large chicken breasts, no skin, no bone, R-T-C
3 tablespoons Roasted Garlic Olive Oil
about 2- 3 tablespoons of kosher salt
1 cup red grapes, cut into quarters
2/3 cup pecans, toasted and then chopped
1/4 cup red onions, chopped fine
1 cup mayonnaise
5 tablespoons Wasabi mustard
 

1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Place chicken breasts on Silpat and drizzle with roasted garlic olive oil and sprinkle with kosher salt on both sides. Roast for about 30 minutes or until done. Remove from oven and let cool completely. Once cool, chop into small pieces.

2. In a medium size bowl combine chopped chicken, grapes, pecans, red onion, mayonnaise and wasabi mustard until well blended. Season with salt and pepper to taste.

3. Store in refrigerator until ready to serve.