Simple Way to Make Cranberry-Chicken Chopped Salad

Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, cranberry-chicken chopped salad. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Cranberry-Chicken Chopped Salad is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They are fine and they look wonderful. Cranberry-Chicken Chopped Salad is something which I’ve loved my whole life.

A light chicken salad with the sweetness of dried cranberries and the crunch of pecans can be served as a sandwich filling or eaten as is. I LOVE dried cranberries so this chicken salad was right up my alley. I chopped up the chicken and opted to used celery in place of the green onions.

Recipe of Cranberry-Chicken Chopped Salad

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook cranberry-chicken chopped salad using 15 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients

The ingredients needed to make Cranberry-Chicken Chopped Salad:

1. Prepare 1 head romaine lettuce; chopped
2. Take 4 shallots; small dice
3. Take 2 serrano peppers; small dice
4. Get 1 C mayonnaise
5. Make ready 1/3 C cranberry simple syrup
6. Take 2 limes; zested and juiced
7. Prepare 2 boneless, skinless chicken breast
8. Prepare 1 T ground coriander
9. Take 1 t cumin
10. Get 1 t onion powder
11. Make ready 1/2 t garlic powder
12. Prepare 1/2 C goat cheese crumbles
13. Get 4 slices bacon; small dice
14. Make ready 1 bundle cilantro; chiffonade
15. Take as needed kosher salt & black pepper

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Instructions

Steps to make Cranberry-Chicken Chopped Salad:

1. Preheat oven to 400º
2. Cover chicken breasts with enough oil to coat. Season with dried spices.
3. Heat enough oil to cover the bottom of a cast iron or oven-safe pan. Sear the breasts with the "skin side" down for about 2 minutes, or until nicely caramelized and breasts lift easily out of the pan.
4. Sear the other side for 1 minute, and place pan in the oven and cook until chicken reaches 165°, about 8 minutes.
5. Let chicken rest 5 minutes before cutting into a medium dice.
6. Whisk together mayonnaise, cranberry simple syrup, lime zest and juice, salt, and pepper.
7. In a mixing bowl, combine chicken, bacon, goat cheese, cilantro, lettuce, shallots, and fresno peppers. Add a pinch of salt pepper. Add enough dressing to coat. Toss to combine.
8. Save extra dressing for up to a week on the fridge.
9. Variations; apple, apple cider, apple cider vinegar, creme fraiche, sour cream, crushed pepper flakes, parsely, jalapeño, poblano, ancho chile, chipotle, apricot, cinnamon, chestnuts, beets, cinnamon, clove, allspice, pumpkin, brie, feta, parmesean, romano, dates, currants, figs, dates, ginger, hazelnut, lemon, orange, maple, nutmeg, almond, pistachios, pecans, walnuts, macadamia nuts, dried cranberries, pearl onion, pear, pomegranate, pears, pumpkin seeds, peanuts, raisins, raspberries,
10. Sea salt, acorn squash, butternut squash, sweet potatoes, watermelon, carrots, balsamic vinegar, red wine vinegar, pomegranate vinegar

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