Chinese Chicken Salad

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Toss up a storm of flavors with the Chinese Chicken Salad! It’s a crunchy, juicy delight that you can prep ahead and eat for days to come for lunch or dinner!

Chinese chicken salad

This is a super easy take on a popular salad that you’ve probably had before. What I like about it is that it keeps in the fridge really well so I can make a batch on the weekend and eat it for lunch for three or four days and it just gets better every day the flavors are allowed to marinate and blend.

If you love super easy salads make sure you check out some of my other recipes like Broccoli Salad With Bacon and RaisinsQuick Easy Greek SaladSummer Corn Salad, and Crunchy Refrigerator Salad

What You’ll Need to Make Chinese Chicken Salad:

ingredients for Chinese chicken salad

  • Vegetable oil
  • Rice Vinegar
  • Cole Slaw Mix (or shred your own cabbage, see recipe for how much)
  • Matchstick Carrots
  • Cooked Chicken breasts
  • Chicken flavored Ramen
  • Salt
  • Pepper
  • Green Onions
  • Sliced Almonds  

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*I know the Rice Vinegar isn’t one of those ingredients that most folks have on hand and I started to substitute it but it costs less than $2 at my grocery store and is easy to find in the Asian Foods section. 

How to Make Chinese Chicken Salad:

put the ramen and nuts on the baking sheet

To start with, lets take two packages of Chicken Flavored Ramen Noodles, set the seasoning packets aside (You’ll use those in our dressing) and crumble them up coarsely. Place those on a rimmed baking sheet along with about a cup of slivered almonds.

Stir them up a bit.

Now place that in a 350 degree oven for about ten minutes or so, until lightly browned.

Stir it up again about five minutes into the toasting.

mix your oils

Take your oil, Rice Vinegar, Sugar, Seasoning Packets from the packages of Ramen Noodles, Salt, and Pepper and put them all in a big old mason jar.

Put the lid on that jar and shake for all you’re worth.

mixed dressing

You now have your dressing! Set this aside.

**You could also use a blender for this but a mason jar is usually handy around my house.

put salad ingredients in a large bowl

Get a large bowl and place your cabbage, carrots, green onions, and chopped chicken in it.

pour dressing over Chinese chicken salad

Here is our dressing. Now just pour that over our salad mixture.

I know you may be thinking “This is cabbage, this isn’t a salad” but really, by the time we add this dressing and let it marinate a bit, it will feel much more like lettuce, but it won’t get all soft and nasty like lettuce would.

stir well

Give that a really good stir to get everything coated well. Then, you can make it fit in a 9×13 pan or your biggest Pyrex mixing bowl (it will shrink down a bit after a few hours) and then cover it and place it in the fridge.

This Chinese chicken salad really needs to sit in the fridge for several hours, or overnight, to allow the flavors to blend and develop.

I haven’t forgotten about the ramen and almonds! Don’t put them on the salad until you are ready to serve it. I store that mix in a plastic bag and put it on the individual servings. 

Chinese chicken salad

And voila! Our beautiful Chinese Chicken Salad – that I eat for lunch several days a week 🙂

Chinese chicken salad

Chinese Chicken Salad – from the Southern Fried Radio Show

Ingredients

  • 2 Chicken Breasts cooked, cooled, and cubed
  • 2 pkgs Cole Slaw Mix Shredded cabbage, about ten cups
  • 1 package MatchStick Carrots about 2 cups
  • 2 packages Chicken Flavor Ramen Noodles
  • 1 Cup Sliced Almonds
  • 3 -4 Green Onions sliced
  • 1/2 Cup Vegetable Oil
  • 1/3 Cup Rice Vinegar
  • 3/4 Cup Sugar
  • 2 Seasoning Packets from the Ramen Noodle packages
  • 1 teaspoon Salt
  • 1 teaspoon Pepper

Instructions

  • Break up ramen noodles onto jelly roll pan, reserving seasoning packets for dressing. Stir in almonds. Place in 350 degree oven and toast about ten minutes, stirring halfway through, until very lightly browned. Remove from oven and allow to cool completely. Once cooled, store in large zipper seal bag.
  • In Quart size mason jar, place both seasoning packets from Ramen, oil, rice vinegar, sugar, salt, and pepper. Put lid on tightly and shake vigorously until well blended. Set aside.
  • Dump cole slaw mix, carrots, green onions, and chicken in a very large bowl (or dish pan). Stir well. Shake dressing again and then pour over all. Stir to coat. You can make it fit in a 9x13 pan or your biggest Pyrex mixing bowl and then cover it and place it in the fridge. It really needs to sit in the fridge for several hours, or overnight, to allow the flavors to blend and develop. Top each serving with toasted Ramen/Almond mix.

Makes 8-10 servings. Note: This makes a lot but lasts several days in the refrigerator and makes a great all in one meal for lunch or supper.

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    83 Comments

    1. I make this salad but instead of Cabbage, I use the prepared Broccoli slaw from grocery store. Very good

    2. This is the recipe I use and I throw the packets away.
      You can get rid of the Accent salt if you want but this dressing is better than I’ve ever tated it made with the packets. It’s from a distant relative and I have sent and SOS to get it when I lost it!!

      1 Tlb Accent salt
      4 Tlb sugar
      2 tsp salt
      1 tsp pepper
      6 Tlb Rice Vinegar
      1 cup veg oil

      Hope you enjoy!
      Marcie

    3. so excited I made this for supper tonight, is it wrong for me to wish that the kids not like it so I can have left overs?

    4. Easily the best use EVER for Ramen noodles! (Never thought I’d ever eat those again, but it’s worth it in this dish.)

    5. Could this recipe be cut in half, sounds good for lunch time and we are but two of us here, hubby and I. Or how long would the recipe last and still be good. It sounds delicious. Thank you

    6. I just love your recipes and bought your cookbook. Curious if you are considering entering nutritional information to your recipes? Thanks!

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