Perfected Chicken Salad

Ingredients

• 2 1/2 cups cooked chicken, diced
• 1 cup chopped celery
• 1 cup seedless grapes, halved
• 1 cup chopped pecans
• 2 teaspoons finely minced or grated onion, or more
• 1 teaspoon salt
• White pepper to taste
• Other seasonings to taste
• 3/4 to 1 cup mayonnaise
• 1/2 cup heavy cream, whipped with 2 teaspoons sugar
• Crisp lettuce or other greens

Instructions

1. In a large bowl, combine all ingredients, and mix thoroughly. Chill.
   
2. Serve on crisp lettuce or other greens.
   
3. I like to season a whole chicken (or chicken breasts) with poultry seasoning, salt, white pepper and onion powder, cover it with water, add a whole bay leaf, and simmer it until tender. I let it cool in its own broth then debone it and dice it. This tastes far better than canned chicken.
   
4. You may add extra minced or grated onion to suit your taste. The heavy cream may be whipped with or without the sugar. I think the sugar added to the whipped cream makes this salad taste great, but again the choice is yours.
   
5. Using a mixture of red and green seedless grapes gives this salad a pretty color.