Chili Mango Peanut Rooster Salad.

Chili Mango Peanut Rooster Salad – A brand new summer season favourite, bursting with recent taste! This colourful, no-cook salad is made with crisp greens, vibrant herbs, rotisserie hen, candy mango, creamy avocado, and crunchy peanuts. It’s all tossed in my go-to toasted chili mango peanut dressing—savory, candy, spicy, and completely addictive. Fast to throw collectively, tremendous satisfying, and so scrumptious… you’ll be making this on repeat all summer season lengthy!

Okay, I’ve obtained a enjoyable backstory for this one. I reached out to my cousin Maggie (generally I prefer to ask my cousins if they’ve any recipe requests). She all the time offers me nice concepts, and she or he’s had this one on her record for years.

She and my cousin Abby have been obsessive about a peanut hen fruit salad from an area Cleveland spot, Joe’s Deli, since they have been children. They liked it a lot that my Aunt Katie would even attempt to recreate it at dwelling!

So, I lastly determined to present it a attempt. The one drawback? Maggie might barely keep in mind the main points. She simply stated, “It’s a hen salad with peanut dressing and a ton of fruit—berries, pineapple, mango, perhaps even some melon?”

I’ll be trustworthy, the thought of all that fruit in a single salad sounded a bit… off. However I took the essential inspiration and created my very own spin on it—one thing that felt a bit of extra me, whereas nonetheless honoring Maggie’s reminiscence of the dish.

The magic begins with the spicy chili mango peanut dressing. It’s based mostly on a dressing I created a number of summers in the past, and it’s nonetheless the most effective I’ve made. I mix recent or frozen mango with peanut butter, toasted sesame oil, lime, and chili flakes. It’s creamy, candy, spicy, and ridiculously good.

Then I tossed collectively shredded rotisserie hen, crisp greens, recent herbs, mango slices, and creamy avocado. After snapping the images, I made a decision to throw in some blueberries too—and WOW. The candy mango, spicy peanut dressing, and recent herbs all work so nicely collectively. It’s a stunning mixture of flavors, however belief me—it completely works!

These are the main points

Components – for the dressing

• recent or frozen mango chunks
• creamy peanut butter
• toasted sesame oil
• olive oil
• apple cider vinegar
• honey
• sambal oelek
• tamari or soy sauce
• garlic

Components – for the salad

• cabbage/kale
• rotisserie hen
• Persian cucumbers
• herbs, inexperienced onions,/basil/cilantro
• recent blueberries
• recent mango chunks or slices
• avocados
• salted roasted peanut

Particular Instruments

Simply the fundamentals! A slicing board, a good knife, a blender for the dressing, and a large salad bowl!

Step 1: make the chili mango dressing

This is without doubt one of the yummiest dressings. We LOVE a peanut-based dressing.

It is a mixture of recent or frozen mango chunks, peanut butter, toasted sesame oil, olive oil, vinegar, honey, sambal oelek, tamari or soy sauce, and garlic. Add every little thing right into a blender and blend till very creamy. You possibly can then season it up with salt.

If you don’t like spicy meals, you’ll be able to omit the sambal oelek. No drawback!

Step 2: the salad

Subsequent up is the salad. I exploit shredded inexperienced cabbage, shredded kale, and I additionally added some shredded romaine to create the precise salad pictured. Simply know that if you happen to use romaine, it is going to wilt if you happen to make this salad forward. Subsequent, add the shredded rotisserie hen, sliced up Persian cucumbers, so many recent herbs (I exploit basil and cilantro), inexperienced onions, after which, if you want, a giant handful of recent blueberries. I feel they’re delish within the salad and add a pleasant juicy chew.

Step 3: toss all of it collectively

Add the dressing, then high the salad with slices of mango, avocados, peanuts, and extra dressing. When serving, I really like so as to add pita or tortilla chips, they’re scrumptious! Maggie eats her salad with pita chips!

Enjoyable be aware, Maggie lastly despatched me a photograph! Oh boy, my salad seems nothing just like the salad she will get. Hers is truthfully fruit with peanut dressing and hen. Oh nicely, I nonetheless adore this yummy, summery salad. It’s spectacular! This is able to be nice to make for Memorial Day!

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Lastly, if you happen to make this Chili Mango Peanut Rooster Salad, be sure you go away a remark and/or give this recipe a score! Above all, I really like to listen to from you guys and all the time do my finest to answer every remark. And, in fact, if you happen to do make this recipe, don’t overlook to tag me on Instagram! Wanting by way of the images of recipes you all have made is my favourite!