Chinese Chicken Salad

Ingredients

Salad

1C                 Romaine lettuce chopped

2C                 Shredded napa cabbage

1C                 Shredded purple cabbage

1-1/2C           Roasted chopped chicken breast with garlic, salt, and pepper

8oz                Canned mandarin oranges (save the juice)

1/2C              Crispy wonton strips

1/4C              Sliced almonds

1/4C              Chopped fresh cilantro

2T                 Toasted sesame seeds

Plum dressing

2T                 Chinese plum sauce

2T                 Rice wine vinegar

1T                 Soy sauce

1/2T              Honey

1/2T              Garlic chili sauce

1/2t               Sesame oil

1/2T              Reserved mandarin orange juice

Process

Arrange the lettuce, Napa cabbage, and purple cabbage on a platter (toss to combine)

Top the lettuce bed with the chicken, oranges, wonton strips, almonds, cilantro, and sesame seeds

In a separate bowl whisk together the plum sauce, vinegar, soy sauce, honey, garlic, chili sauce, sesame oil, and mandarin orange juice

Season to taste with salt and pepper.

Toss the salad with the dressing and top with crisp wonton strips

Serve the same day.  It does not go well overnight

447 calories per serving