Pulled Chicken Snack
Shredded chicken, chopped dried apricots, raisins, a spoonful of chili sauce, and a drizzle of olive oil. Toss it all together and you have a snack that tastes like it took effort.
The dried fruit does the heavy lifting on energy. 69 grams of carbohydrates from apricots and raisins, sticky-sweet against the chili heat. The chicken brings 28 grams of protein and enough texture to keep every bite interesting. No pan, no oven, no blender. Three minutes from fridge to fork.
Shredded chicken, chopped dried apricots, raisins, a spoonful of chili sauce, and a drizzle of olive oil. Toss it all together and you have a snack that tastes like it took effort.
The dried fruit does the heavy lifting on energy. 69 grams of carbohydrates from apricots and raisins, sticky-sweet against the chili heat. The chicken brings 28 grams of protein and enough texture to keep every bite interesting. No pan, no oven, no blender. Three minutes from fridge to fork.
Ingredients
- grilled chicken strips 3 oz
- dried apricots 4
- chili sauce 1 tbsp
- olive oil 0.5 tbsp
- raisins 1 oz
Method
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Shred the chicken into small pieces. Cut the apricots into small pieces.
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Mix the chili sauce, oil, apricots, and raisins with the shredded chicken. Season with salt and pepper.
Use kitchen scissors to cut the dried apricots directly into the bowl. They stick to knife blades but snip cleanly, and you skip the cutting board entirely.
Why This Works
Behind this recipe
Can I use fresh apricots instead of dried?
Fresh apricots have a completely different texture and sugar concentration. Dried apricots are chewy and intensely sweet, which creates the sticky coating when mixed with chili sauce. Fresh ones would add moisture and tartness instead. If you swap, expect a lighter snack with significantly fewer carbohydrates. drying concentrates the sugars roughly four to five times compared to fresh.
Is this enough protein for a post-workout snack?
This snack delivers 28 grams of protein from chicken. a complete source with all essential amino acids. The 69 grams of carbohydrates from dried fruit provide fast-absorbing energy. Whether that fits your recovery needs depends on your body weight, training intensity, and total daily targets.
Are the raisins in this snack a good source of iron?
Raisins show 1.88 milligrams of iron per 100 grams on the label. But raisin tannins, concentrated during drying, chelate most of that iron into a form your gut struggles to absorb. A Cornell study using a cell absorption model found that iron bioavailability from all three common raisin types was low, and the inhibitors may reduce uptake from other foods in the same meal. The chicken in this snack provides heme iron, a different molecular form that travels through the gut wall on its own pathway, unaffected by raisin tannins.
