Spread the love
3 - 3Shares
Best Chicken Salad Recipe with Creamy Peanut Butter Salad Dressing
Prep Time
10 mins
Cook Time
45 mins
Total Time
55 mins
Course:
Salad
Ingredients
- Salad Ingredients:
- 1 cup of shredded fresh lettuce
- 1 cup of shredded mixed green and red cabbage
- 1/2 cup of shredded carrots
- 1 cup of shredded Napa cabbage
- Creamy Peanut Butter Salad Dressing Ingredients:
- 1/4 cup creamy peanut butter unsalted
- 1 clove garlic roughly chopped or 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1 teaspoon minced ginger
- 2 tablespoons unseasoned rice vinegar
- 2 tablespoons red wine vinegar
- 3 tablespoons fresh lime juice
- 3 tablespoons vegetable oil
- 1 tablespoon soy sauce
- 4 tablespoons honey
- 1/2 tablespoon toasted sesame oil
- 1 dash Worcestershire sauce
- 1/3 cup hot water
- For chicken :
- 2 boneless chicken breasts
- Salt
- slices lemon
Instructions
- Place all mixed vegetables in a bowl
- For peanut butter dressing, in a large bowl mix the peanut butter, red wine vinegar, rice vinegar, lime juice, vegetable oil, soy sauce, ginger, honey, toasted sesame oil and gradually whisk in water until dressing reaches the perfect consistency.
- For chicken : Rinse fresh chicken under cool water. Pat dry with paper towels.
- Place chicken and salt in a bowl. Rub salt into chicken. Refrigerate 15 minutes.
- Place chicken in a pot fitted with a steamer basket over water.
- Bring water to a boil add lemon slices and steam chicken until juices run clear, about 30 minutes.
- Mix salad dressing into bowl with vegetables and chicken. Serve.
Spread the love
3 - 3Shares
27 comments
That dressing sure does sound good. I am going to have to try it 🙂
What a wonderful recipe. Would love to try it out.
This dressing would be perfect with tofu and noodles.
This sounds like absolute heaven and yay I can finally get on your site! I have never thought about using peanut butter as a dressing but I can totally see how it works!
This sounds amazing. I was only looking online earlier actually for peanut butter dressings and sauces and this looks lovely x
Wow!! Looks amazing! Thank you for the recipe! I am going to make this for lunch tomorrow!
That looks SO good! I wish my family loved peanut butter because I would love to make this for our salads!
Yum, this sounds like a healthy lunch recipe I’d use a lot. That dressing looks really good! I’d love to make it.
I’ve never had peanut butter as a salad dressing before. It sounds yummy! Thanks for the recipe.
So heavenly yummy. I love it. Awesome!
this salad looks fantastic and i’m really curious about the peanut butter salad dressing
I never knew about this recipe but it looks awesome recipe
What a yummy recipe. I would love to give it a try on weekends.
I’ve started doing salads for lunch every day but I’m getting a little bored. I’m going to try this recipe next week to jazz it up. Thanks for sharing!
Oh yes…printed, pinned and ready to go. This is my thing right here. #Bloggersrock
The peanut butter dressing sounds very interesting. I can’t wait to try this.
That dressing and that salad look so scrumptious! I am definitely going to make the dressing!
I love chicken salad but would never have thought to make peanut butter dressing! Awesome!
That’s smart to use peanut butter. I’ve never heard fo such a thing, I like it!
The chicken salad looks so awesome. I have to try that dressing.
Love that. Looks really rich and delicious. Need to try that, my family will love it.
You had me at peanut butter salad dressing. I need to try this. :O
Your pictures are so crisp and beautiful and it looks like a super delicious salad to make! Can’t wait to try it
I’ve never in my life tried a salad dressing with peanut butter, but I’m totally willing to give it a go! Great food photography btw!
This sounds really good- I haven’t had Peanut Butter on a salad before – but I love peanut butter so I bet it would be great!
I haven’t tried peanut butter on a salad before. But it sounds good to me!
Thanks for sharing this recipe, im going to get the ingredients this week and try the dressing for the salad.