Hot Chicken Salad is a type of casserole-salad dish prepared using chicken, almonds, mayonnaise, celery, pepper, cheese and onions. In order to prepare Hot Chicken Salad recipes, the chicken is cooked and divided into cubes, which is mixed with all the other ingredients and then baked in an oven. Often, crushed potato chips are spread on top of the Hot Chicken Salad casserole prior to baking.