Chicken Salad with Dill and Yogurt - How Many Calories?

Calories in chicken salad with dill and yogurt

The reference combines cooked skinless chicken, yogurt, dill, lettuce, pickled cucumber and a small amount of mayonnaise. It supplies about 81 kcal per 100 g. The source's 130 g serving contains 105 kcal and 16.67 g protein. A yogurt-based dressing is not necessarily mayonnaise-free.

The chicken and dressing are counted together

Yogurt, garlic and mayonnaise are already included in the salad's energy value. Extra mayonnaise or oil added afterwards counts separately. Making the recipe with yogurt alone changes the mixture; the original calorie figure cannot automatically be retained after removing mayonnaise.

When making it with boiled breast at home, use the cooked-weight calculation for edible meat without skin or bones. A raw whole chicken does not weigh the same as the meat eaten in the salad. If you have counted the chicken, yogurt and other ingredients separately, do not add the finished salad again.

The walnut, milk and bread sauce in Circassian chicken is a different mixture. When comparing the two chilled chicken dishes, check the dressing as well as equal serving weights.

When changing the yogurt, distinguish lactose-free from dairy-free products. Lactose-free yogurt still contains milk protein and should not be assumed suitable for milk allergy.

A bowl and a sandwich are different servings

A weighed 150 g amount gives about 121 kcal and 19.24 g protein. A larger 250 g bowl contains approximately 202 kcal, excluding the bowl itself from the weight. When used as a sandwich filling, bread and any additional cheese must be counted separately.

Changing the proportions of pickles and dressing can change the salt content of a similar-sized bowl. A pickle brand's nutrition panel cannot be applied directly to the entire salad; distinguish the amount added to the recipe from the amount eaten in a portion.

Putting 100 g salad between two slices of white sandwich bread weighing 50 g together gives about 214 kcal and 17.18 g protein. Extra butter or cheese is outside this example.

Preparing a chilled salad safely

Use a food thermometer to check that the thickest part of the chicken reaches 74 °C / 165 °F. Clean tools that touched raw chicken before using them for lettuce and dill. Refrigerate the finished salad within two hours, or within one hour when the surrounding temperature exceeds 32 °C / 90 °F.

Recipe nutrition reference

Diyetkolik reports 104.93 kcal per 130 g. Its ingredient list names grilled skinless breast, while the method describes boiling and stripping a whole chicken. No exact cooking yield or raw-to-cooked conversion was inferred. One tablespoon of mayonnaise belongs to the whole recipe, not to each individual serving. Unreported sugars and saturated fat remain unknown, and vitamin A in IU was not converted to RAE.

• Diyetkolik: chicken salad nutrition data
• Diyetkolik: yogurt and mayonnaise recipe
• FDA: cooking chicken and chilling prepared food