Amy's Favorite Recipes: Sweet and Crunchy Chicken Salad

Sweet and Crunchy Chicken Salad

Go crazy with this! I have listed the basics, but if there is something else you like--go ahead and add it! This is easily made for one person, or many more. The listing is for one person.
This also makes an easy vegetarian salad with the elimination of the ground beef.

Ingredients:

Lettuce mix:

  Chopped leaf lettuce
  Chopped iceberg lettuce
  Chopped baby spinach leaves

For the dressing:

A good honey mustard dressing

For the fried chicken:

  2 boneless, skinless chicken breasts, cut into 1 inch pieces
  seasonings: garlic salt, black pepper, onion powder, cayenne pepper
  1 cup flour
  2 eggs, beaten
  oil for frying

Other salad toppings:

  I small can mandarin orange slices
  ¼ cup honey-roasted soynuts, macademia nuts or peanuts
  thinly sliced red onion, to taste
  sliced strawberries
  pineapple chunks
  diced apples
  shredded coconut

Instructions:

To make the fried chicken, season the chicken pieces with about a teaspoon of each seasoning. You may want less cayenne pepper -- just a dash. Let sit for about 10 minutes. Toss chicken pieces with ¼ cup flour to coat. Working in small batches, shake excess flour from chicken and add chicken pieces to eggs. Drain excess egg and add chicken pieces to ¾ cup seasoned flour (use same seasoning method described above.) Shake excess flour from chicken pieces and place chicken in hot frying oil. Cook until brown. Repeat with another small batch of chicken pieces.

To assemble salad, toss about three cups of lettuce/spinach blend with 2-3 tablespoons honey mustard dressing. Arrange lettuce on plate. Top with remaining ingredients. This assembly method is per serving, but you could also create one big, help yourself salad to serve a large number of people. Enjoy!

Serves: 4

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