Mini Croissant Chicken Salad Bento Box
Buttery mini croissants stuffed with creamy chicken salad and crunchy cucumber, packed into a bento box with grapes and pretzels. A protein-packed, no-cook adult bento box lunch that's ready in 15 minutes and disappears every time.
Prep
15 min
Cook
0 min
Total
15 min
Serves
1
Ingredients
Chicken salad
- 1 cup cooked chicken, shredded
- 3 tbsp mayonnaise
- 2 tbsp finely diced cucumber (or celery)
- 1 tbsp diced green onion
- Salt and pepper, to taste
To pack
- 4 mini croissants
- Green grapes
- Mini pretzels
Method
- 1
Mix the shredded chicken, mayo, cucumber, green onion, salt and pepper into a creamy chicken salad.
- 2
Slice the mini croissants and fill each generously with the chicken salad.
- 3
Pack the croissant bites in the bento box with green grapes and pretzels in the other sections.
- 4
Keep chilled with an ice pack until lunchtime.
Tips
- Use rotisserie chicken to make this bento box a 10-minute lunch.
- Keep grapes whole so they don't leak into the other compartments.
- Assemble the morning of and keep cold — mayo-based bento fillings need to stay under 40°F.
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