How To Make Winter Chicken Salad with Tangy Miso Dressing
Serve a light and satisfying meal with this chicken salad. It’s tossed with lettuce, mandarins, and avocado in cider vinegar and miso dressing.
Serves:
Ingredients
For the Salad:
- 1lbchicken breasts,boneless skinless
- kosher salt
- freshly ground black pepper
- 1headbutter lettuce,washed and dried
- 1handfularugula,or watercress, washed and dried
- 1small large bulb fennel,(1 small or ½ large), very thinly sliced
- 3seedless mandarins,peeled, cut into wheels, and pulled into pieces
- 1small avocado,diced
For the Miso Dressing:
- ¼cupextra-virgin olive oil,plus 2 tsp
- 1tbspwhite miso paste
- 1tbspapple cider vinegar,plus 2 tsp
- 1tsphoney
- 2scallions,white and light green parts only, finely chopped
- ½tspground cumin
Instructions
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Lay the chicken breasts on a cutting board. Use a mallet or the side of a rolling pin to pound the thicker end of the breasts, so they’re about the same thickness along the whole breast.
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Season on both sides with salt and freshly ground pepper.
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Heat 2 teaspoons of the olive oil over medium in a large cast-iron or non-stick skillet. Cook for about 8 minutes the chicken until nicely browned on one side and opaque halfway up the side.
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Flip and cook on the second side for another 8 minutes until no longer pink in the center.
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Transfer to a cutting board to rest for at least 5 minutes. Cut across the grain in ⅓-inch-thick slices.
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In a small bowl, whisk together the miso, apple cider vinegar, honey, scallions, and cumin until smooth. Continue to whisk drizzling in the remaining olive oil.
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Toss the lettuce, arugula, and fennel in a large bowl with just enough dressing to lightly coat. Transfer to 4 serving bowls.
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Tuck the avocado, mandarins, and chicken slices into the bowls and dribble a little more dressing over them. Serve immediately.
Nutrition
- Calories: 857.27kcal
- Fat: 60.28g
- Saturated Fat: 11.64g
- Trans Fat: 0.24g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 36.05g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 9.29g
- Carbohydrates: 29.67g
- Fiber: 11.50g
- Sugar: 13.92g
- Protein: 53.19g
- Cholesterol: 145.15mg
- Sodium: 1397.29mg
- Calcium: 164.00mg
- Potassium: 1687.92mg
- Iron: 5.13mg
- Vitamin A: 272.23µg
- Vitamin C: 38.12mg
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