Asian Chicken Salad with Roasted Peanuts

This is a wonderful salad that is easy to make if you use an already made rotisserie chicken. I bought one at the grocer while grabbing the other ingredients and put this one together really fast! I used an Asian dressing by "Walden Farms" called "Oriental Dressing" which is both fat and calorie free and it worked perfectly in this salad- I don't know if that is available to everyone, but it's worth looking for. I also used a salad mix called "Asian Greens" instead of baby spinach, but it contained mostly spinach anyway, and it was great! This salad does remind me quite a bit of the one that Wendy's serves called Mandarin Chicken Salad but this is much better. But I think this salad would also work well with mandarin oranges and chow mein noodles as substitutions in the salad in stead of mangoes and peanuts. Overall, this was a very healthy salad (I took the skin off my chicken and kept light on the nuts) and I know I will keep it as a part of my regular routine, when I need dinner in a hurry! Thanks for a great recipe, Bev!!!

I have had this recipe in my file for awhile and I am glad to see that it has already been posted. This is a great salad, great by itself for an evening summer dinner or luncheon. You really can be creative and add additional ingredients. I make my own Asian dressing, but really anything works.. Very good and easy to put together.

Very yummy salad! My first time trying mango and l love it! Interestingly enough, my family and I decided we'd like it better next time without the cilantro as it we felt it was in competition with the other flavors. I might omit the ginger next time as well, since the dressing I used had ginger in it and we were getting a little ginger-blasted. I also down sized the chicken and dressing quite a bit as there are only three of us, from 3/4 cup to a little less than a 1/4 cup, and for the chicken I gave each plate 2 1/2 ounces. I know, I know, so many changes, but I had to review it anyway as it was still so good!

On the uspide this was easy and gave my sister and I a good excuse to try mango for the first time, but it met with mixed reviews in my house. I think the dressing makes a huge difference in how the salad turns out. I tried an Oriental Honey Orange dressing that turned out to be a too sweet and a little blah on its own so I didn't toss the salad in it, just left it to the side so people could have it if they wanted or try something else. It actually pulled everything together and worked in the salad (to everyone's surprise) but I think still could have been better. I used lemon rotisserie chicken as I thought it would go well with the dressing, but lil' sis thought the salad was missing something in general and suggested that perhaps teriyaki chicken would have perked it up a bit. Next time I would use more nuts or maybe add some chow mein noodles as another reviewer suggested. And it turns out sis really likes mango. I found them pretty good at first, but then kind of lost interest which is at least far more than I like most fruit. I might make it again with different dressing, but it was really just the good side of okay this time. Thanks anyway.

Absolutely wonderful salad! For dressing I made recipe #23367 Fat Free Asian Salad Dressing and doubled the recipe. It made almost 1 cup of dressing and I used it all. These too where really good together.