Thai Chicken Salad with Peanut Dressing
Looking for a super easy lunch or dinner recipe with minimal ingredients and prep time? I got you! This Thai Chicken Salad with Peanut Dressing has all the best flavors and textures. It’s both crunchy and creamy, and is filled with healthy real food ingredients like cabbage, carrots, red pepper, green onions, fresh cilantro and peanuts. If that’s not reason enough to make this, it takes almost no prep time and is ready to eat in minutes. The simple homemade peanut sauce makes for the absolute perfect dressing – and you can choose to make it spicy or not! In short, this easy meal will literally knock your socks off.
I made this for lunch yesterday and had enough leftover for my husband and I to have for lunch today. Honestly, we loved it so much I wish I made more. If this Thai chicken salad is up your alley, I’d highly recommend doubling the recipe! Either way, you only need a few simple ingredients, 5 for the salad & 5 for peanut dressing. To make this recipe even easier, you could also use a store bought peanut sauce.
What you’ll need:
To make this Thai Chicken Salad with Peanut Dressing, you’ll need a few simple ingredients, two mixing bowls (one for the salad and one for the dressing) and a fork – that’s it! Really doesn’t get much easier than this.
Ingredients:
- 16 oz bag shredded green & red cabbage with carrots
- 1-2 lbs shredded chicken (you can cook it yourself or a rotisserie chicken works great too!)
- 1 red pepper
- 4 green onions (about 1/3 cup)
- 2 tbsp fresh cilantro (can easily be left out if you don’t like the taste)
- Peanut sauce: peanut butter (or almond butter for paleo), water, soy sauce (or coconut aminos), maple syrup, garlic and ginger to taste, hot sauce (optional)
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Thai Chicken Salad with Peanut Dressing
Ingredients
- 1-2 lbs chicken cooked and shredded (or rotisserie chicken)
- 16 oz bag shredded green and red cabbage with carrots
- 1 red pepper diced
- 4 green onions diced (about 1/3 cup)
- 2 tbsp cilantro optional
- peanuts for topping
Peanut Dressing
- 1/2 cup creamy peanut butter
- 1/3 cup water
- 2-3 tbsp soy sauce or coconut aminos
- 1-2 tbsp maple syrup
- 3 cloves garlic minced
- ginger to taste
- 2 tsp hot sauce optional
Instructions
- In a mixing bowl, toss all salad ingredients together.
- In a separate bowl, mix peanut dressing ingredients together until smooth.
- Add dressing to salad if consuming immediately, or store salad and dressing separately for 3-5 days.
