Houston’s Chicken Salad

Just a few notes on this recipe…………discovered this
salad at Houston’s Restaurant in Georgetown when I was
living in D.C. Found this recipe online and tastes as
I remembered it but made a few minor tweaks after
making it a few times. So delish and a nice diversion
from the usual garden salad.

Versatile as you will see in my notes below.  The dressings 
would well for on noodle salad if you have leftover so 
you don’t have to make the dressing that is called 
for in the recipe.  As seen in this photo, instead of 
lime-marinated chicken, I used oven-fried chicken 
that I had my freezer.

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Houston’s Chicken Salad

nice diversion from the usual garden salad and dressings that are so versatile, you can use to marinate meats or toss into noodle salads, WORTH THE EFFORT!

Course: Main Course, Salad

Cuisine: asian

Keyword: asian, chicken, lime, peanut, salad

Ingredients

Lime Dressing:

• 1/2 cup lime juice (fresh-squeezed tastes best)
• 4 tsp honey mustard optional
• 7 1/2 TBSP honey
• 4 TBSP vegetable oil
• 2 garlic cloves, minced
• 1 tsp coarse black pepper
• 1/2 tsp kosher salt

Peanut Sauce:

• 4 TBSP creamy peanut butter could sub crunchy, honey PB, or any nut butter alternative
• 4 TBSP soy sauce * (3 TBSP) (could sub Tamari for gluten free)
• 4 TBSP hot water * (2 TBSP) add more for thinner sauce
• 2 tsp sesame oil
• 1 TBSP ground ginger may use fresh ~ 3 TBSP or to taste (usually 1:3 ratio from ground to fresh)
• 1 1/2 TBSP honey * added but not part of orig recipe

Salad Mix-Ins:

• mixed greens
• julienned carrots
• thin tortilla strips (I used wonton strips)
• grilled chicken, sliced thin (I used my oven-fried breaded)

Instructions

1. Mix ingredients for lime dressing, then mix ingredients for peanut sauce.  Reserve in separate jars.

2. In salad bowl, mix greens, carrots and tortilla strips with lime dressing.  A little goes a long way so start light, you can always add more.  You cannot take away……..

3. Mix the salad ingredients with the lime dressing. Drizzle peanut 
sauce on top.

Recipe Notes

• items with * and/or ( ) are my modifications to the recipe that I found online.  
• lime dressing is PERFECT for marinating chicken or shrimp, lovely flavor and grills beautifully
• use the peanut dressing to dip the lime marinated chicken or shrimp, heavenly, great for an appetizer for entertaining.
• lime and peanut dressing work well for  noodle salad
• lots of room for creativity, adding chopped cashews, sweet/salty nuts, various greens including cilantro, basil, Swiss chard, red leaf, spinach, kale, beet greens, etc.  – use any variation you have on hand.
• you can omit the chicken altogether for vegetarian version
• add shrimp  for pescatarian (and marinated in the lime dressing would be amazing)