Full of flavor and ready in 20 minutes, this Chopped Asian Salad is drizzled in a Sweet Ginger Chili Lime dressing, making it incredibly hard to resist.
Made with shredded green cabbage, celery, carrots, green onion, cilantro, crunchy chow mein noodles, chicken, and the best dressing, this Chopped Asian Salad is always a hit in our home.
As a great meal, this is a side dish for parties and barbecues. However you decide to serve it, make sure you get a big helping before it’s gone!
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One of the many delicious recipes that we now make was inspired by when we lived with my parents while building our house. This Chopped Asian Salad is one of them.
We lived with my parents for a while, almost over a year ago, while our home was being built. And that is when I was introduced to the best-bagged salad. My mom bought this Asian Chopped Salad from King Soopers, our local Kroger store. And I fell in love with it, like somewhat obsessed.
For a spontaneous meal, I just added some grilled teriyaki chicken breast to my salad, and voila, one of my favorite salads was reborn — all by chance. Isn’t it cool when things like that happen?
I love it when random dishes like this turn into a tasty meal. This dish will be a regular for spring and summer, and it looks amazing on the table.
Ingredients for Asian Salad
- Coleslaw mix
- Diced carrots
- Diced celery
- Chow mein crackers
- Chopped green onions
- Chopped fresh cilantro
- Cooked chicken
For the chicken, I marinate two large chicken breasts in teriyaki sauce and grill them. You can also use shredded rotisserie chicken and toss it in the sauce.
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Ingredients for the Dressing
I used my Sweet Ginger Chili Lime Dressing from another Asian salad on my blog. My hubby loves this dressing. And really, what is not to love about it? It is sweet and perfect for balancing the cabbage and cilantro. You can also easily add heat to it if you want a kick.
It’s worth making your dressing from scratch – here’s what you’ll need:
- Finely chopped ginger
- Finely chopped garlic
- Lime juice
- Low-sodium soy sauce
- Toasted sesame oil
- Rice wine vinegar
- Chili sauce
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CHOPPED ASIAN SALAD
Ingredients
- 8 cups coleslaw mix
- 2 cups diced carrots
- 2 cups diced celery
- 1 1/2 cups chow mein crackers
- 1/2 cup chopped green onions
- 1/2 cup chopped fresh cilantro
- 4 cups cooked chicken I used 2 very large chicken breast, marinated them in teriyaki sauce and then grilled them
Sweet Ginger Chili Lime Dressing
- 1 tablespoon ginger chopped fine
- 1 tablespoon garlic chopped fine
- 3 tablespoons lime juice
- 3 tablespoons low sodium soy sauce
- 1 tablespoon toasted sesame oil
- 2 tablespoons rice wine vinegar
- 1 tablespoon sweet chili sauce
Instructions
- Cut up chicken, into cubes. I grilled mine, but a store bought rotisserie chicken works well too.
- Cut up all the vegetables.
- In a large mixing bowl add coleslaw mix, diced carrots and celery, green onions, cilantro and top with chicken.
Dressing
- Mix all the ingredients in a large mason jar, or any type of jar with lid. Combine all of the ingredients and shake to combine, use immediately or store in the refrigerator until ready to use. Be sure to shake up before you use it.
- Drizzle dressing over the salad and toss to combine. Add chow mein noodles {crackers} and toss again. Serve immediately.
- If you aren’t serving immediately – you can add everything in a large bowl except the chow mein noodles and dressing and then add those right before you are to serve. This is a great salad to make ahead.
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After reading the comments I still have no idea what kind of Chili Sauce to use as there are a variety in the Asian section of my food store; Thai chili sauce, sweet chili sauce, and Tomato chili sauce (which I read …. was a “no”, but nothing labeled just chili sauce. I’m going with sweet chili sauce because I don’t see any other ingredients in the dressing that would make it sweet.
The sweet chili sauce is absolutely correct! I’ve updated the post to make that more clear as there are a lot of chili sauces out there. We usually just use the Kroger brand but you can use whichever you find.
This was so delicious, I will try and have it once every week now!
This looks SO amazing! I am excited to try this.
This Chopped Asian Salad looks like such an awesome meal!
My kids love this salad! And it’s so simple!
What a delicious and very flavorful salad! This went so well with our dinner the other night, such a hit here and easy too! So much more flavor and better than store bought.
I love all these flavors in one dish! It’s a perfect summer side dish!
This is totally my kind of salad! I love, LOVE the flavors!
Oh my, this salad is fabulous!! I would love it for lunch!!
This is our favorite salad! My kids ask for it weekly.
All these Asian flavors in a salad! Love this idea so much!
Such a satisfying salad! Love all the different ingredients.
This is genius! I’m excited to try this one!
Looks incredibly delicious! I would love to make this!