Chicken Salad with Peanut Dressing

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Chicken Salad with Peanut Dressing

Image/Recipe Source: Cooking Matters

Keyword: Entrée
Ingredients
Salad
  • 2 chicken breasts, cooked and shredded
  • 1 medium head romaine lettuce
  • 1 medium red bell pepper
  • 1 small apple
  • 8 snow peas
  • 1 10 oz can mandarin oranges, packed in juice
  • 1/4 cup slivered almonds (optional)
Dressing
  • 2 tablespoons peanut butter
  • 2 tablespoons oil
  • 2 teaspoons reduced-sodium soy sauce
  • 2 teaspoons distilled white vinegar
Instructions

  1. Rinse lettuce. Pat dry. Tear into bite-sized pieces.

  2. Rinse bell pepper. Remove core and seeds. Cut into bite-sized pieces.

  3. Rinse apple. Cut into thin slices. Then, cut slices into matchsticks.

  4. Rinse snow peas. Slice thinly on the diagonal.

  5. Drain mandarin oranges, reserving juice.

  6. In a large bowl, add peanut butter, oil, soy sauce, vinegar, and 1 Tablespoon reserved mandarin orange juice. Mix until well blended.

  7. Add lettuce, bell pepper, apple, snow peas, drained mandarin oranges and chicken to bowl with dressing. Toss to coat. If using almonds, sprinkle on top of salad now.