4.9 from 27 votes
Crunchy Chicken Salad with Peanut Dressing
This Crunchy Chicken Salad with Peanut Dressing is full of delicious vegetables and mouthwatering juicy chicken. It's the perfect healthy dinner or lunch!
Prep Time
5 mins
Cook Time
13 mins
Total Time
18 mins
Servings:
2
salads
Course:
Main Course, Salad
Cuisine:
Asian, Thai
Ingredients
Ingredients for salad
- 2 chicken breast pounded slightly thin
- salt for seasoning
- black pepper for seasoning
- 4 cups baby spinach
- 1 romaine lettuce chopped, heart
- 1 red pepper seeded and chopped
- 1 small cucumber cut into thin rounds
- ¾ cup sugar snap peas
- 1 large carrot peeled and then peeled into strips
- ½ small red onion thinly sliced
- ¼ cup peanuts chopped
- 1 TBS sesame seeds
Ingredients for dressing
- ¼ cup rice vinegar
- 1 teaspoon ginger chopped
- 2 TBS soy sauce reduced sodium
- 1 TBS honey
- 3 TBS sesame oil
- ¼ cup vegetable oil or canola oil
- 3 TBS peanut butter creamy
Notes
- *The chicken is even more flavorful if you marinate in a teriyaki sauce before grilling, but that is optional.
- Originally published in 2016. Recipe updated in 2022.