Chicken Soup Salad Is the Viral Recipe Taking Over Social Media in 2025

A new chicken salad recipe, Chicken Soup Salad, has taken social media by storm in 2025. It blends savoury flavours with a soup-like taste, thanks to aromatic vegetables and nutritional yeast. The dish has already racked up over 440,000 views on TikTok and more than 36,000 likes on Instagram.

The trend follows a year of popular chicken salad recipes, including Bethenny Frankel's version and the Marry Me Chicken Salad. This latest creation draws inspiration from a viral chicken soup recipe by Jenny Osipova (@jennys_table), though no single creator has been credited with the original idea.

To prepare the salad, chicken breasts are seared, shredded, and mixed with mayonnaise. Vegetables are seared, steamed, puréed, and combined with nutritional yeast, lemon juice, salt, and pepper. The mixture is then chilled for at least 30 minutes or kept for up to four days.

The recipe suggests serving the salad with crackers, raw vegetables, or in lettuce cups. It can also be spread on toast or made into a sandwich, as shown in Osipova's Chicken Soup Salad Sandwich version. Variations include swapping mayo for Greek yogurt, using rotisserie chicken, or adding herbs like thyme and rosemary.

Freezing the full salad isn't recommended due to the mayo, but the cooked chicken and vegetable blend can be frozen separately.

Chicken Soup Salad joins a long list of viral chicken dishes this year. Its unique flavour and versatility have made it a quick favourite online. The recipe's flexibility allows for easy adaptations based on taste and ingredients.