Italian Chicken Salad - cooking recipe

Ingredients
    2 -3 cups cooked chicken (I use food processor, but you can also use 2 forks & shred to a consistency similar to tuna or pulle)
    1/3 cup Hellmann's mayonnaise
    4 ounces Philadelphia Cream Cheese, softened
    1/2 cup chopped celery
    1/3 cup chopped onion
    1/2 cup pitted black olives, drained & chopped
    1 (6 ounce) jar marinated artichoke hearts, drained & chopped
    1/4 cup pinoli nuts, chopped (pine nuts)
    to taste salt
    to taste pepper
    to taste garlic powder
    1 dash oregano
Preparation
    I use my mini-food processor to chop all of the ingredients except the chicken -- I just give them a few \"pulses\" per ingredient so they are not pureed in the food processor.
    Mix mayonnaise, and cream cheese together in bowl until creamy. Stir in chicken & remaining ingredients. Chill until ready to serve.
    *Can add more or less of the mayonnaise & cream cheese mixture according to taste/texture desired.
    Note: you can buy the chicken pre-cooked or make it ahead of time. I recommend using all white meat.
    Also, you can substitute the pinoli nuts with chopped almond slivers if budget-conscious.

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