🏅▷ Lemon Aioli Chicken Salad with Pistachios

Lemon chicken salad for two with pistachios and dates. Copycat Whole Foods lemon aioli chicken salad.

I really want to be one of those ladies who lunch.  I’m pretty sure that there are only two requirements to join the club: be a lady and have time for lunch.  I think my eyebrows are too big to be considered ‘ladylike’, but with a great hat or side-swept hairdo, I might eke by.  

I just wish I had time for lunch.  I usually eat lunch standing up in the kitchen.  Sometimes it’s my kitchen, sometimes it’s not.  Sometimes the lunch is a sad rice cake topped with peanut butter or a handful of dried figs plus a few almonds. Not so ladylike.

A lady’s lunch is balanced, pretty, and always has a touch of sweet–just like this lemon chicken salad for two:

Copycat Whole Food Lemon Chicken Salad for two:

I spy this chicken salad flavor combo at my Whole Foods frequently. I really want to stand in line and wait for a scoop or twelve, but the line is usually too long.  So, I grab a pack of figs and almonds and call it lunch.  But I just couldn’t shake the flavor combo of lemons, pistachios, and creamy chicken.  I whipped up my own version, and stirred in Medjool dates and crisp radishes because, well, because I like them.  You too?

If eating raw eggs makes you squeamish, you can easily substitute 1/4 cup of store-bought mayo and stir in the zest of half of a lemon.  In this recipe, we’re cutting the mayo with Greek yogurt (because I can’t remember the last time I didn’t stir Greek yogurt into a recipe).  Seriously, nothing is safe from my Greek yogurt obsession.  I’ve made
truffles
, a quick
pasta
dinner, and even breakfast
popsicles
with it.  Oh, and
pie
(of course). I buy the 4 pound tub o’ Greek yogurt at Costco, and tuck into it like it’s The Hunger Games up in this place.