Crunchy Chicken Salad with Peanut Dressing
This Crunchy Chicken Salad with Peanut Dressing is full of delicious vegetables and mouthwatering juicy chicken. It's the perfect healthy dinner or lunch!
Ingredients
Ingredients for salad
- 2 chicken breasts pounded slightly thin
- salt for seasoning
- pepper for seasoning
- 4 cups baby spinach
- 1 romaine heart chopped
- 1 red pepper seeded and chopped
- 1 small cucumber cut into thin rounds
- ¾ cup sugar snap peas
- 1 large carrot peeled and then peeled into strips
- ½ small red onion thinly sliced
- ¼ cup peanuts chopped
- 1 TBS sesame seeds
Ingredients for dressing
- ¼ cup rice vinegar
- 1 teaspoon ginger chopped
- 2 TBS reduced sodium soy sauce
- 1 TBS honey
- 3 TBS sesame oil
- ¼ cup vegetable or canola oil
- 3 TBS creamy peanut butter
Instructions
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Season both sides of the chicken with salt and pepper. On a preheated grill, add your chicken and grill until cooked through, about 10 minutes**
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In a salad dressing shaker or bowl, add rice vinegar, ginger, soy sauce, honey, sesame oil, vegetable oil, and peanut butter; Shake or whisk to thoroughly combine. Refrigerate until needed.
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Heat 2 cups of water in a small sauce pot, bring to a boil. Add the sugar snap peas and flash boil for 2 minutes. Drain immediately and run cold water over the top to stop the cooking process. Set aside.
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Assemble salad: Add spinach and romaine to a large salad bowl. Top with peppers, onions, cucumbers, and carrots. Slice the grilled chicken and add. Sprinkle sesame seeds and peanuts, add dressing and serve.
Recipe Notes
*The chicken is even more flavorful if you marinate in a teriyaki sauce before grilling, but that is optional.
Originally published in 2016. Recipe updated in 2022.