How To Make Chicken Salad with White Sauce
Chicken marinated overnight in some cumin, turmeric, and paprika seasoning makes a wonderful chicken salad in special white sauce.
Serves:
Ingredients
For Chicken:
- 24ozchicken thighs,4 large boneless, skinless, fat trimmed
- ½oflemon,juiced
- 2clovesgarlic,minced
- 1¼tspground cumin
- 1tspolive oil
- 1tspkosher salt
- 1tsporegano
- ¾tspsweet paprika
- ½tspturmeric
For White Yogurt Sauce:
- 1cupStonyfield Whole Milk Yogurt with Probiotics
- 2tbspmayonnaise
- 1tbspapple cider vinegar
- 1tsplemon juice
- ½tspsalt
- ½tspsugar
- ⅛tspblack pepper
For Salad:
- 6cupsiceberg or romaine lettuce,chopped
- 2medium tomatoes,quartered
- ½small red onion,sliced
- harissa,prepared mild, optional for drizzling
Instructions
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Season the chicken with lemon juice, garlic, cumin, oil, salt and spices.
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Set aside at least 15 minutes, or as long as overnight.
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Combine the ingredients for the white yogurt sauce and refrigerate.
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When ready to cook, heat a large nonstick griddle or skillet over medium high heat.
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When hot, add the chicken and leave until the bottom is completely browned, about 5 minutes before flipping.
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Cook on the other side for another 4 to 5 minutes, until browned.
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Reduce the heat to low.
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Let the chicken continue cooking for about 10 minutes, until just about cooked through in the thickest parts.
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Set aside on a cutting board and chop the chicken into thin strips.
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Add back to the pan to brown and finish cooking, 8 to 10 minutes over medium heat.
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Assemble the salad by dividing the lettuce, tomato and red onion.
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Top with chicken and drizzle with yogurt sauce and harissa, if desired.
Nutrition
- Calories: 512.90kcal
- Fat: 37.53g
- Saturated Fat: 10.05g
- Trans Fat: 0.14g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 14.70g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 9.65g
- Carbohydrates: 11.63g
- Fiber: 3.04g
- Sugar: 6.53g
- Protein: 32.16g
- Cholesterol: 177.47mg
- Sodium: 922.09mg
- Calcium: 134.96mg
- Potassium: 828.54mg
- Iron: 2.98mg
- Vitamin A: 400.22µg
- Vitamin C: 17.06mg
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