Sparks from the Kitchen

This is one gigantic delicious salad filled with great flavors and textures. The zingy chili sauce, the slightly sweet dressing, the crunchy noodles, the bright mandarins and the crispy veggies-everything just comes together.

I named it ‘Red Dragon’ chicken salad because of the zing, heat and red sauce on the chicken. Besides it sounds much better than plain old ‘chicken salad’,  no? Yes.

Unfortunately I can’t take full credit for this salad. I based in on a salad that I enjoyed a few weeks ago at Buffalo Wild Wings with Husband.  It was our first visit.  I’m not a fan of  chain restaurants but I liked it there more than I thought I would. The wings were delicious and they have a great variety of foods.

Red Dragon Chicken Salad

Ingredients:

• 4 cups salad (combination of shredded carrots, cabbage, lettuce and broccoli)
• 1/3 cup crispy chow mein noodles (I used La Choy)
• 3 tbsp Newmans Own Low Fat Sesame Ginger salad dressing
• 1-2 tbsp Asian Zing sauce (from Buffalo Wild Wings)* 
• 1 boneless, skinless chicken breast grilled and sliced
• 6 mandarin orange segments

Instructions:

1. Put salad and dressing together, toss to combine. Sprinkle noodles over the salad. Set aside.
2. Mix the Asian Zing sauce with the chicken and spread over salad.
3. Arrange mandarin slices around the outside.

This makes one large salad or 2 smaller salads.

*their Asian Zing sauce tastes to me like Sweet Thai Chili sauce and sriracha so if you don’t have the sauce or want to buy it you can mix those 2 ingredients together to the desired heat level and use that on the chicken instead.