Grammy's Kitchen · Chicken Salad · Caribbean Chicken Salad with Mango Dressing
One of 109 chicken salad recipes we measured
from www.wellplated.com
9 cooks on www.wellplated.com rate it 4.7★.
Every ingredient resolved to grams, expressed against the recipe's own base — next to the median of all 109.
| this recipe | typical | |
|---|---|---|
| fat | 8% | 6% |
| acid | 6% | 1% |
| sweetener | 4% | 0% |
| salt | 0% | 0% |
| aromatics | 6% | 4% |
Adapts cleanly: dairy-free, egg-free, nut-free (documented swaps, applied on the dish page)
Weights computed by us.
| 64 g | 4 tablespoons reduced sodium soy sauce |
| 54 g | 4 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil |
| 27 g | 2 tablespoons brown sugar (light or dark) |
| 4 g | 2 teaspoons ground ginger |
| 340 g | 4 thin cut chicken breasts* (about 12 ounces) |
| 75 g | 1/2 small red onion (thinly sliced) |
| 510 g | 18 ounces chopped romaine lettuce (leafy greens and hearts) |
| 240 g | 2 red bell peppers (cored and diced) |
| 180 g | 1 cup canned reduced-sodium black beans (rinsed and drained) |
| 425 g | 15 ounces mandarin oranges in light syrup (drained (or substitute other juicy tropical fruits, such as diced mango or diced pineapple)) |
| Fresh cilantro (for serving) | |
| 1 large mango* (peeled, pitted and roughly chopped or 1 1/4 cups frozen and thawed mango chunks) | |
| 82 g | 1/3 cup freshly squeezed lime juice ((about 2 medium size limes, though you may need additional if the limes are not very juicy)) |
| 21 g | 1 tablespoon honey |
| 1 g | 1/2 teaspoon ground cumin |
| 3 g | 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt |
| 0 g | 1/4 teaspoon ground coriander |
| 1 g | 1/4 teaspoon cayenne |
| 41 g | 3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil |
Method: 5 steps, published by www.wellplated.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.
“Delicious - I’m always trying to eat more salads but somehow can never make them tasty without lots of fattening additions. This hit the spot - the mandarins were a nice fresh, sharp change in the flavour to break up the levels. Will be putting this on my lunc” — a cook, 5.0★
“This caribbean chicken salad is combination of taste, I like a balanced diet, a variety of protein and vitamin supplements so that they will have good health. I found your post from Pinterest! I'm also gonna pin this post on my Pinterest board my followers wil” — a cook, 5.0★