Asian Chicken Salad

Serves: 4

The fruit that tops this salad helps to make an already healthy dish packed with even more vitamins. Reprinted with permission by Public Health – Seattle & King County.

INGREDIENTS
2 cups cooked chicken, skin removed, cut into bite-sized pieces
4 cups cabbage, shredded
1 cup mushrooms, sliced
1 cup carrots, grated
2 tablespoons cilantro, chopped
1 cucumber, thinly sliced
3 green onions, thinly sliced
1 mandarin orange or tangerine, divided into sections
1/2 cup nonfat Asian or Oriental-style salad dressing
black pepper

DIRECTIONS
1. In a large bowl, combine chicken, cabbage, mushrooms, carrots, cilantro, cucumber, and dressing. Toss well.
2. Top with green onions and tangerine sections. Pepper to taste.

NUTRITION INFO
Calories: 125.5
Fat: 0.9 g
Carbohydrates: 19.5 g
Protein: 10.9 g


This is another good one that came through the Spark Net newsletter.  What changes did I make?  The salad dressing.  I combined 1/2 cup plain yogurt with 1 tsp sugar, 1/2 tsp dill, and a sprinkling of caraway seed.  Oh, and sometimes I leave out the onions.

Bon Apatite

Alice

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