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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)