Spiced Chicken Salad
photo by Ingy1171
- Ready In:
- 25mins
- Ingredients:
- 15
- Serves:
-
4
ingredients
- 1 head lettuce, chopped into bite-sized pieces
- 1 cucumber, diced
- 4 small green bell peppers, diced
- 2 large garlic cloves, diced
- 1 medium yellow onion, sliced into thin rings
- 1 chicken breast
- 44.37 ml mayonnaise
- 59.14 ml rice vinegar
- 44.37 ml sugar
- 1 lemon, juice of
- 1.25 ml cumin
- 1.5 ml chili powder
- salt
- pepper
- 59.16 ml olive oil
directions
- On a large serving platter or in a large bowl arrange chopped lettuce, peppers, and cucumber.
- Heat olive oil in pan over medium heat and add sliced onions. Liberally salt onions to bring out natural sweetness and help them caramelize.
- Once onions are a nice brown color, remove from heat and place on top of lettuce.
- Add a little more olive oil to the pan and add diced garlic. Be careful not to let it burn.
- Season chicken with salt, cumin and chili powder and add to pan with garlic.
- Once chicken is cooked through, remove from heat to cool.
- Pour drippings and garlic from the pan over the vegetables.
- Shred chicken and top salad with it.
- In a small bowl combine: lemon juice, mayonnaise, vinegar, sugar, a shake of cumin, a shake of chili powder, salt and pepper. Whisk well.
- Drizzle dressing over salad and serve immediately.
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Reviews
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The dressing really makes this salad. The onions were a little draw-back since I could not taste them, like I hadn't added them at all. I did cut down on the sugar in the dressing to 1tbs, don't like too sweet dressings. Otherwise I made it just as stated. On the whole a nice fresh salad with a little zing. Thanks for posting.
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Ingy1171
Seattle, WA
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Ratings:
I often give 4 or 5 star ratings, but I usually only try recipes that I know I'll like.
5 Stars - it was fantastic and I wouldn't change a thing.
4 stars - it's a very good recipe, will make again but changed it just a little.
3 stars - it was an okay recipe, but there were things I'd definitely change if I made it again.
2 stars - the recipe really didn't impress us much (by us I mean the hubby and myself)
1 star - there might have been something wrong with the recipe posting to begin with, because it was a complete failure (I haven't had any of these!)