Wild Rice Chicken Salad – Eat Yourself Skinny

Hearty and scrumptious Wild Rice Chicken Salad made with leafy arugula, heat wild rice, shredded hen, sliced almonds, and inexperienced onions all tossed with a vibrant lemon tarragon French dressing!

You are going to like this wild rice hen salad! We are swapping out mayonnaise that’s usually utilized in conventional hen salad recipes and utilizing this recent lemon tarragon dressing that brightens up the entire dish. So hearty, flavorful and comes collectively tremendous rapidly for the proper lunch, aspect dish and even as a essential dish!

Why You’ll Love this Salad

• Quick, healthy and simple to make!
• We are swapping out mayo for a scrumptious lemon dijon tarragon dressing.
• Wild rice has an earthy, nutty taste with a barely chewy texture that’s loaded with nutritional vitamins, minerals and an amazing supply of fiber.
• This wild rice salad could be enjoyed heat or chilly and makes an amazing lunch or aspect dish for dinner.

Ingredients You’ll Need

• arugula – I really like the peppery style of arugula on this salad, however any leafy greens or lettuce will work nice.
• hen – any sort of cooked hen will work on this recipe, however I particularly love to make use of rotisserie hen due to how flavorful it’s and easy to throw collectively! Feel free to chop it into cubes or shred it with a fork.
• wild rice – do you know wild rice is definitely an aquatic grain, not rice, with a scrumptious nutty taste.  You can simply make wild rice in your on the spot pot (see directions under), rice cooker or on the range, or in case you are brief on time you should buy pre-cooked wild rice in a can. A wild rice mix would work on this recipe as effectively. 
• inexperienced onions – also called scallions, these add only a contact of taste (and coloration!) with out being too overpowering.  You might additionally use purple onion on this should you like a stronger onion style.
• celery – provides this salad a pleasant crunch!
• almonds – identical to with the celery, these almond slivers provides this salad texture and a pleasant crunch!  Feel free to make use of any sort of nuts you’d like similar to cashews, walnuts, pecans, and so on.
• dressing – this lemon dijon tarragon dressing brightens up this salad and is de facto easy to make.
• salt + pepper – for added taste.

How to Make Wild Rice Chicken Salad

1. Cook the wild rice. Make the wild rice both in a medium saucepan on the range (or you could possibly use your Instant Pot) and observe the package deal instructions. Wild rice does take some time to cook dinner so put aside about 40 to 50 minutes for this.
2. Make the dressing. While the wild rice is cooking, whisk collectively the lemon tarragon dressing. I wish to retailer this in a mason jar with a tightly sealed lid with the intention to give the jar a very good shake when prepared to make use of!
3. Assemble salad. In a big bowl, mix all of the substances for the salad, together with the cooked rice, drizzle with the dressing and toss every thing to mix. You can both serve the salad heat or let it chill within the fridge for a bit earlier than serving.

You’ll Love this Lemon Tarragon Dressing!

This vibrant, flavorful dressing will actually style nice on something! Made with recent tarragon and lemon juice together with olive oil, white wine vinegar, dijon mustard, honey and salt/pepper, this dressing simply pairs so effectively with the earthy flavors of the wild rice and juicy hen. Most wild rice hen salads are made with mayo, however the tarragon dressing on this salad is lighter and extra flavorful!

How to Make Wild Rice within the Instant Pot

The factor about making wild rice that may be irritating is that it may well take over an hour to cook dinner, until you’ve got an Instant Pot! Making wild rice in your Instant Pot takes actually half the time and is tremendous simple! Here’s tips on how to make it:

1. Combine wild rice, water and a 1/4 teaspoon of salt within the bowl of your Instant Pot.
2. Close the lid and lock (ensuring the valve is on sealing and never venting), choose the Manual setting and set the timer for 28 minutes. Now let wild rice cook dinner.
3. When accomplished let the pressure launch naturally for about about 9 minutes. Fluff wild rice with a fork and it’s prepared!

Prepping and Storage

To Prep – Make the wild rice forward of time and retailer in a sealed, hermetic container and whisk collectively the lemon tarragon dressing and retailer in a mason jar till able to toss with the salad.

To Store – This wild rice hen salad will last as long as 2 days saved within the fridge in a sealed, hermetic container.

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