Chicken Salad with Pineapple Celery Seed Dressing

For Salad:

• 2 Chicken Breasts – shredded (can use rotisserie chicken)
• 3 celery stalks – finely chopped
• 1 cup carrot – shredded and chopped
• ¼ cup red onion – finely minced
• ¼ cup cilantro – chopped
• 1 cup seedless red grapes – quartered
• 1 cup mandarin oranges
• ½ cup sliced toasted almonds
• 1 cantaloupe
• Baby greens

Peel and seed cantaloupe and cut into wedges. Set aside.

Mix all ingredients together in large bowl except mandarin oranges and almonds. Add oranges and almonds just before serving.

Pineapple Celery Seed Dressing

• 1 cup mayonnaise
• 1 tsp celery seed
• ½ tsp garlic powder
• ½ tsp kosher salt
• ½ tsp fresh black pepper
• 3 Tbsp pineapple juice
• 1 ½ tsp Splenda Baking Sugar Blend (can substitute honey)
• 1 Tbsp orange juice
• 2 tsp finely minced shallot

Mix all ingredients together and chill until ready to serve. Dress salad just before serving. Gently stir in mandarin oranges and almonds. Place cantaloupe on bed of greens and fill wedge with chicken salad. Garnish with grape tomatoes.

Zucchini Lemon Walnut Muffins

• ½ cup unsalted butter – softened
• 1 cup Splenda Baking Sugar
• Zest of 1 lemon
• 1 cup All Purpose Flour
• ½ cup white wheat flour
• 1 tsp baking powder
• ½ tsp baking soda
• 1 tsp kosher salt
• 3 eggs
• 2/3 cup buttermilk
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1 ½ cup shredded zucchini – squeezed dry
• 2/3 cup toasted walnuts – chopped
• Nonstick baking spray

Preheat oven to 350

Line muffin tin with paper cups and lightly spray cups

In bowl combine all dry ingredients and set aside

In bowl of mixer cream together butter, lemon zest and sugar until light and fluffy

Add eggs, 1 at a time until just combined

Alternately add flour and buttermilk, starting and ending with flour mixture

Add vanilla

Stir in zucchini and walnuts.

Fill muffin tins 2/3 – ¾ full.

Bake until set about 18-20 minutes

Remove from tin and let cool on wire rack

Can be store in refrigerator when completely cooled. Reheat 10-15 seconds in microwave

Makes approx 18-20 muffins