Chinese Chicken Salad – Eat Yourself Skinny

This Chinese Chicken Salad is loaded with contemporary lettuce, cabbage, carrots, candy mandarin oranges, crunchy almonds and cilantro all tossed along with a scrumptious ginger-sesame French dressing!

Let’s discuss my all-time FAVORITE salad, we could?  This crunchy and scrumptious Chinese hen salad was impressed by ALL the salads I like to order anytime we exit to eating places.  If you’ve ever had Cheesecake Factory’s Chinese hen salad then you realize precisely what I imply…DELISH.  This salad is loaded with your whole favorites and the dressing makes the whole lot style that a lot better!

Everyone ought to have a favourite salad and this one is tremendous simple to throw collectively.  It has all of your favorites like contemporary romaine lettuce, inexperienced and pink cabbage, crunchy carrots, candy mandarin oranges, inexperienced onions and cilantro all tossed in essentially the most scrumptious ginger sesame dressing!  Then I wish to garnish with almonds and sesame seeds!

Ingredients You’ll Need

• hen – I really like making this with rotisserie hen as a result of it’s fast, simple and SO flavorful!  You might additionally use cubed hen breasts, leftover shredded hen and even canned hen would work.  Pro tip: use your crock pot or Instant Pot to take advantage of flavorful, fall-aside shredded hen!  Simply throw your hen into the pot, add 1/2 cup hen broth and switch it on!
• romaine lettuce – crunchy romaine lettuce is my absolute fav, however you could possibly additionally use iceberg lettuce or simply further cabbage.
• cabbage – I like to make use of a mixture of napa cabbage and pink cabbage, however you could possibly use common cabbage or simply persist with all lettuce.
• carrots – I at all times julienne my carrots for salads, however you could possibly additionally grate them and even buy retailer-purchased matchstick carrots which at all times makes issues simpler!
• mandarin oranges – I often simply use canned mandarin oranges (be certain they’re in 100% juice), however you could possibly additionally simply reduce up some contemporary oranges
• cilantro and inexperienced onions
• almonds – I used sliced almonds on this recipe, however you could possibly use cashews or peanuts as an alternative of the almonds should you desire!

Why You’ll Love It!

I can’t start to inform you how simple this salad is to throw collectively!  I at all times purchase a rotisserie hen to shred for all my salads every week which makes issues very easy, however generally I’ll even batch cook dinner shredded hen in my crock pot or Instant Pot.  You might additionally swap out the hen and make a shrimp salad!

How to Make Ginger-Sesame Dressing

You’ve in all probability seen this recipe a number of occasions on my weblog and that’s as a result of this dressing is an absolute staple in our house!  It’s a scrumptious mix of soy sauce, garlic, contemporary ginger, honey, rice wine vinegar, sesame oil and olive oil.  I like to stay to decrease sodium soy sauce as I personally suppose the common one is just too salty, however be at liberty to make use of no matter you will have readily available.  You might additionally swap the soy sauce with coconut aminos or tamari if holding this gluten-free or paleo.

This ginger-sesame dressing will final a few week in your fridge so be at liberty to make this forward of time!  I at all times make a giant batch of the dressing and simply retailer it in my fridge to make use of anytime I’m within the temper for this salad.  Just be certain to decorate the salad proper earlier than eating so your veggies keep crisp and contemporary.  Pro tip: Use further dressing to marinate your hen with for much more taste!

How to Adjust this Salad for Your Diet

• Gluten-Free – simply swap the soy sauce for tamari or coconut aminos
• Paleo – swap the soy sauce for coconut aminos
• Keto/Low Carb – swap the honey with Swerve sweetener (or another keto sweetener you favor) and omit the mandarin oranges
• Whole 30 – swap the soy sauce for coconut aminos and as an alternative of honey, strive including somewhat juice from the mandarin oranges to sweeten!

Not solely does this Chinese Chicken Salad style manner higher (and cheaper) than ordering take-out, but it surely’s a a lot more healthy choice too.  Perfect for lunches and even dinner as this salad is tremendous filling, but it surely works nice as a aspect dish too!

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Hope you all take pleasure in this contemporary and crunchy Chinese Chicken Salad and should you love this recipe as a lot as we do, please go away me a 5-star ranking under and don’t neglect to tag me on Instagram utilizing the hashtag #eatyourselfskinny! I really like seeing all of your scrumptious recreations!