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.
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
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4 ounce
Shredded Carrots
½ ounce
Peanuts
()
¼ ounce
Cilantro
2 tablespoon
Olive Oil
½ teaspoon
Sugar
Salt
Pepper
• 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.
- 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.
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!
