Welcome to November’s Secret Recipe Club Reveal! I am super excited for who I had this month! I was assigned the fabulous Julie & her wonderful blog – Confessions of a Cooking Diva! Julie is one of my favorite people. I’ve known her for awhile, not just through the SRC but through many other blogger things. If you’ve never checked out Confessions of a Cooking Diva, I seriously recommend carving out some time! Julie has an amazing selection of recipes!
When I found Julie’s Chinese Chicken Salad recipe, I knew I had found my SRC pick for this month. First, we love anything with Asian flavors. Second, thanks to the wonderful thing that is rotisserie chicken, there was no actual cooking involved. Third, I knew it would make enough that it would feed me for lunch pretty much my whole week at work. There was no downside to this recipe!
The only difference I made to my recipe from Julie’s original was I used broccoli slaw in the salad instead of just shredded cabbage. I’m a big fan of broccoli slaw so I’ll take any excuse to use it in a recipe. Julie served hers in slider buns – I ate mine wrapped up in a tortillas simply because I already had some here at the house 🙂
Chinese Chicken Salad
Ingredients
- 2 cups cooked shredded chicken
- 1 can 10.5 ounces mandarin oranges, drained
- 1 cup broccoli slaw
- 1/8 cup peanuts
- 1 green onion thinly sliced
for the Sesame-Ginger Dressing:
- 1/3 cup rice vinegar
- 1/4 cup soy sauce
- 4 tablespoons honey
- 1/4 cup sesame oil
- 1/3 cup peanut oil
- 2 cloves minced garlic
- 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
Instructions
for the Sesame-Ginger Dressing:
- Combine all ingredients in a small bowl. Mix well
for the chicken salad:
- In a medium-sized bowl, combine the shredded chicken, mandarin oranges, broccoli slaw, peanuts & green onion. Toss to mix well.
- Drizzle 2 - 3 tablespoons of the sesame dressing over the mixture and toss to coat.
- Serve on rolls or wrapped in tortillas. Drizzle more dressing over the chicken salad sandwich before serving if desired.
recipe inspired by: Confessions of a Cooking Diva
What a DELICIOUS recipe! I have some broccoli slaw at home that is now calling for this recipe. 🙂
This looks awesome!! Wish I was having it for lunch right now!! A little crunch, a little sweet… perfect!
This sounds delicious especially with the broccoli slaw. It would be great to make for a party. I had your lovely blog this month and everyone loved your caramel apple shortbread bars. Happy SRC reveal day!
I adore broc slaw too! Great substitution idea!
I also enjoy broccoli slaw, so I think that was a great substitute. This chicken salad sounds delicious! Great pick this month 🙂
Yum! This salad looks amazing! It’s good to know that I’m not the only one who judges recipes by how many leftovers they make. 🙂
What a wonderful, fresh and healthy salad! And gorgeous to boot!! Great pick!
Yummy Jaime, and such gorgeous photos! I love broccoli slaw too!
This is a delicious twist on chicken salad. I see this as a wonderful lunch all week long. Great pick!
I love lunches that I can just have in the fridge, this recipe is great!
Well, this sounds absolutely delicious!!
Hi Jaime, great dish! How about adding it to the Food on Friday: Chicken collection over at Carole’s Chatter? Cheers
Yummy! Pinned and tweeted. Lou Lou Girls
Definitely giving this a try – this would be perfect for my take to work lunches.
Love this recipe!! Great job I can’t wait to try it!