Chicken Salad Pepper Boats: An Easy Way to Serve Your Chicken Salad
Already made my Creamy Dill & Cucumber Chicken Salad? Here’s your next snack. Spoon it into crisp mini sweet peppers for colorful, creamy chicken salad pepper boats—an easy assembly recipe that puts that chicken salad to delicious use.
The filling is already doing the heavy lifting. All you’re doing here is prepping the peppers, adding a generous spoonful, and serving something that looks a little special with very little fuss.
Print and scale the filling recipe, here: Creamy Dill & Cucumber Chicken Salad.
Your chicken salad deserves a little crunch. And these colorful little pepper boats are happy to provide it.
Sweet mini peppers hold a generous spoonful of creamy dill-and-cucumber chicken salad, bringing together tender chicken, fresh herbs, and that crisp bite that makes you reach for another.
They’re pretty enough to put out for company and simple enough to make just for yourself. Both are perfectly good reasons.
A Fresh Way to Serve a Favorite
The filling starts with our Creamy Dill & Cucumber Chicken Salad: rotisserie chicken, crisp cucumber, fresh dill, and a Greek yogurt dressing finished with a little mayonnaise for richness.
Here, we’re giving it a different presentation. Halve a few sweet mini peppers, remove the seeds, and fill them with the prepared salad. The peppers stay raw, so there’s no oven involved—just a little assembly and a very good excuse to use a pretty plate.
Red, orange, and yellow peppers all work beautifully. Choose a mix for visual appeal, or use whichever ones are waiting in your refrigerator.
Keep the Filling Creamy and the Peppers Crisp
A few small details make these easier to fill and more pleasant to eat:
Dry the peppers after washing. Pat the cavities dry so water doesn’t collect underneath the filling.
Fill generously, without building a tower. You want creamy chicken salad in every bite, with enough pepper underneath to hold it comfortably.
Make a Snack—or Build a Plate
A few pepper boats make an easy savory snack. For a light lunch, serve them alongside a leafy salad or a few of our turkey–cucumber pinwheels. They also fit beautifully on a snack platter with cucumber rounds, olives, and Parmesan crisps.
Add a bowl of Keto Charcuterie Dip, and suddenly the refrigerator odds and ends have excellent presentation.
If you’re preparing ahead, keep the chicken salad and washed, dried pepper halves in separate covered containers in the refrigerator. Fill the peppers close to serving for the freshest texture.
Get the Printable Recipe
The recipe card below includes the ingredient amounts, assembly instructions, and serving information so you can make a batch of your own.
Looking for more ways to make simple ingredients feel a little special? Browse our Recipe Index for more low-carb snacks and easy meals.
Use what you have. Make it beautiful.
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