Sesame Chicken Salad

Sesame Chicken Salad has amazing Asian flavor and texture and has a delicious ginger sesame dressing. This salad is a great side dish salad and also a delicious main dish when you add chicken.

Main Dish Salad

I have piles of recipes that I have ripped out of magazines over the years, but only a small percentage of them ever actually get made. Today I am sharing one of those recipes that I found in a magazine and actually made. My favorite type of salad is one that can also be used as a main dish when you add in some protein.

Ginger Sesame Dressing

We are using the dressing as both a marinade for the chicken and a dressing for the salad. It has lots of yummy flavors including ginger, sriracha sauce, cilantro and hoisin sauce. You can find both Sriracha sauce and hoisin sauce in the Asian aisle of the grocery store.

Mix together the dressing/marinade ingredients.

Reserve 4 Tbsp of the dressing for the chicken marinade. Use the remaining remaining dressing/marinade to dress the salad  Just be sure that the half for the dressing NEVER touches your raw chicken.

How to Make Sesame Chicken Salad

• Mix together marinade/dressing ingredients.
• Pound chicken into a thin, even layer, about 1/2-3/4 inch thick.
• Marinate chicken for 30 minutes in 4 Tbsp of the mixture. You can marinate for up to four hours.
• Grill chicken and slice.
• Assemble salad and dress with remaining marinade/dressing.

Check out more of my yummy Asian inspired salads:

• CopyCat Panera Asian Sesame Salad
• Crunchy Asian Chicken Salad
• Asian Spinach Salad

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Sesame Ginger Salad with Chicken

Recipe From: Leigh Anne Wilkes

This delicious salad becomes a healthy and filling meal with the addition of sliced sesame ginger chicken breast.

serves: 2 servings

Prep:10 minutes minutes

Cook:15 minutes minutes

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Ingredients

Marinade and Dressing

• ▢ 1/4 cup soy sauce
• ▢ 2 Tbsp minced ginger
• ▢ 1/4 cup canola or vegetable oil
• ▢ 2 Tbsp hoisin sauce
• ▢ 1 Tbsp sesame oil
• ▢ 1 tsp sriracha sauce
• ▢ 1 tsp salt
• ▢ 2 chicken breasts boneless, skinless
• ▢ 1/4 cup red wine vinegar
• ▢ 2 tsp sugar
• ▢ 1/4 cup finely chopped green onions

Salad

• ▢ 1 lb. Napa cabbage thinly sliced
• ▢ 2-3 cups of baby spinach
• ▢ 2 carrots peeled and grated
• ▢ 3 green onions thinly sliced (green and white part)
• ▢ 1/2 cup cilantro leaves coarsely chopped
• ▢ 1/2 cup sliced toasted almonds
• ▢ 1 tsp toasted sesame seeds

Instructions

Marinade

• Mix together soy sauce, ginger, oil, hoisin sauce, sesame oil, sriracha and salt.
• Using a meat pounder or a heavy pan pound the chicken breasts to an even thickness (about 1/2 – 3/4 inch thick)
• Put chicken in zip to bag and add in 4 Tbsp marinade.
• Reserve rest of the marinade for dressing. PLEASE be sure it does not come in contact with the raw chicken.

Dressing

• To reserved marinade add 1/4 C red wine vinegar, sugar and green onions.

Chicken

• Grill marinated chicken breasts in a grill pan or on outdoor grill. Grill until cooked through.
• Allow chicken to rest for about 10-15 minutes.
• Cut into 1/4 inch thick slices

Salad

• In a large bowl combine cabbage, carrots, green onions, cilantro, half of sesame seeds and almonds.
• Add desired amount of dressing and chicken and mix together.
• Garnish with remaining sesame seeds and almonds.

Tips & Notes:

1. If you can’t find Napa Cabbage you can use Bok Choy, romaine or baby spinach.
2. Be sure that the reserved part of the marinade doesn’t touch the raw chicken.
3. You can substitute sriracha sauce with red chili paste.
4. Hoisin sauce is harder to substitute but you could use BBQ sauce  or black bean paste but the flavor will be different

 

Nutrition Facts:

Calories: 520kcal (26%) Carbohydrates: 27g (9%) Protein: 59g (118%) Fat: 21g (32%) Saturated Fat: 3g (19%) Cholesterol: 145mg (48%) Sodium: 1584mg (69%) Potassium: 2034mg (58%) Fiber: 9g (38%) Sugar: 12g (13%) Vitamin A: 14367IU (287%) Vitamin C: 85mg (103%) Calcium: 339mg (34%) Iron: 4mg (22%)

* Disclaimer: All nutrition information are estimates only. Read full disclosure here.

Course:Main Course, Main Dish, Salad

Cuisine:Asian

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