Crunchy Thai Chili-Lime Chicken Salad
with Peanuts, Scallions & Cilantro
- Eggs
- Peanuts
Get ready for all the Thai flavors you love in a 10-minute salad! First you’ll make a sweet, hot, and tangy chili-lime dressing to toss with crisp lettuce, scallions, and carrots. Top with bite-size pieces of juicy fully cooked chicken, then drizzle on more dressing, sprinkle with peanuts, cilantro, and a squeeze of lime, and dig right in! After lunch, you’ll be left feeling satisfied—not overstuffed—and with the slightest spicy tingle on the tongue to remember it by.
Ingredients
1 unit
Lime
1 unit
Baby Lettuce
2 unit
Scallions
8.6 ounce
Fully Cooked Chicken Breasts
1 ounce
Sweet Thai Chili Sauce
4 tablespoon
Mayonnaise
(Contains: Eggs)
4 ounce
Shredded Carrots
½ ounce
Peanuts
(Contains: Peanuts)
¼ ounce
Cilantro
Not included in your delivery
2 tablespoon
Olive Oil
½ teaspoon
Sugar
Salt
Pepper
Nutrition Values
Utensils
Cooking Steps
• Wash and dry produce. Quarter lime. Trim and discard root end from lettuce; roughly chop into bite-size pieces. Thinly slice scallions. Crush peanuts in their bag.
• Pat chicken dry with paper towels; dice into bite-size pieces and season generously with salt and pepper.
• In a medium bowl, combine chili sauce, mayonnaise, juice from half the lime, 2 TBSP olive oil, ½ tsp sugar, a big pinch of salt, and pepper (juice from whole lime, 4 TBSP olive oil, and 1 tsp sugar for 4 servings).
• In a large bowl, toss together lettuce, scallions, carrots, and half the dressing. Season with salt and pepper to taste.
• Add chicken to bowl with remaining dressing and toss to coat.
• Divide salad between bowls. Top with chicken and garnish with peanuts. Tear cilantro with your hands and sprinkle over salad. Serve with remaining lime wedges.
Customer reviews
Review summary
Updated on Dec 2025- Flavor: Many enjoyed the tangy, fresh flavors, though some found it bland and wanted more spice or a peanut-based dressing.
- Ease of prep: Quick and easy to make, perfect for busy days or a fast lunch; some appreciated the pre-cooked chicken.
- Suggestions: Consider adding crunch with wonton strips or sesame seeds; boost flavor with extra lime juice or hot sauce 🌶️.
- Portions: Some found it light for a main dish; others appreciated the generous chicken serving.
- Texture: Customers loved the crunch from peanuts, but a few wanted more lettuce and fewer carrots.
Reviews from our home cooks
First, I got the recipe for Spinach Caprese instead of Thai Chili-Lime in the box and had to look it up online instead. Then again, it's just a salad, so mix and go, right? I also needed to jazz up the dressing a bit and take out the mayo. That was a crazy amount of mayo and I want to keep my calories down. So I added all the lime juice, incorporated stems when chopping cilantro, added a clove of garlic, rice vinegar, and peanut butter powder. Ingredients were fresh and it was a helpful time-saver to have the pre-cooked chicken.
The dressing was too mayo heavy - I ended up adding some sour cream because it tasted overwhelmingly of mayo, then added some sriracha because there wasn't much of the thai chili sauce flavor coming through. I also used the juice from the whole lime, not just half. The dressing was a bit better, but still too mayo heavy for our taste. Most Thai salads I've had haven't had creamy dressings, I think this should have been a different style dressing.
This was so quick and easy to make. And it was delicious!!! Loved the dressing, peanuts and cilantro were a great touch too.
I made this right away, after receiving my box; it was easy and fast. With all the sliced chicken, there was more than enough for two of us; I had the rest for lunch the next day. Very good recipe, and good value!
This was an awesome recipe, and I got all my ingredients this time. That's saying a lot lately. Great flavor and very easy since the chicken is already grilled and delicious.
Delicious and easy salad. Dressing was so good, I bought the ingredients for the dressing at the store so I could make more.
I didn't have wonton strips when I first made it and it felt like it was missing something (a nice crunch), so I went and picked some up. Much better after adding wonton strips (more filling). I also added sesame seeds and I think some citrus would also go well/ potentially a orange sesame dressing to make it an asian chicken salad.
OMG.. I LOVE this salad.. One of my new favorites.. So simple, so easy and so tasty.. If I could get this once a month I would.
Nice and crunchy, crisp lettuce and carrots were great together with the cilantro and peanuts. Would have liked more Thai chili sauce to give a bit more heat.
Could have used a little more lettuce and lime or would have saved some of the dressing for another salad. It was sooo good!
