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A quick and tasty Strawberry Apple Chicken Salad, filled with plump juicy strawberries, sweet apple slices, crunchy almonds and topped off with the most wonderful poppy seed dressing you've ever tasted!

Strawberry Apple Chicken Salad

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A quick and tasty salad, filled with spring flavors!
Course Main Course, Salad
Cuisine American
Prep Time 15 minutes
Total Time 15 minutes
Servings 4 large salads
Calories 507
Author Kim

Ingredients

  • 3 cups boneless skinless cooked chicken, chopped (I buy the Simple Truth brand rotisserie chicken from Kroger)
  • 6-8 cups baby spinach or baby kale/baby spinach mix (I buy the huge Simple Truth containers of pre-washed mixed greens from Kroger)
  • 1 apple, thinly sliced (any yellow-red apple will do great, I use honeycrisp or gala)
  • cups quartered strawberries
  • ¼ cup chopped almonds (you can find the organic raw nuts from Simple Truth in the produce department at Kroger) (any favorite nut will work)
  • salt and pepper to taste

For the dressing:

  • cup mayo*
  • ½ cup unsweetened vanilla almond milk (any milk product will work)
  • 5 tablespoons Lite&Sweet, xylosweet, baking splenda, Stevia or sugar
  • 7 teaspoons apple cider vinegar
  • 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil or other oil
  • 4 teaspoons poppy seeds

Instructions

  • First prepare the dressing by blending all dressing ingredients together (except for poppy seeds) until smooth. Stir in poppy seeds. Cover and chill until ready to use.
  • In a large bowl toss together chicken, spinach, apple and strawberries. Add poppyseed dressing and toss to coat. Top with almonds and serve immediately. If making salad ahead of time, toss the salad without the dressing, then add the dressing and toss immediately before serving OR you can serve the dressing on the side.

Notes

  • I use an all-natural mayo, like Avocado Oil Mayo from Chosen Foods or Just Mayo from Hampton Creek. Both can be found at Kroger. Feel free to also sub part or all of the mayo with plain Greek yogurt. Using Greek yogurt will change the flavor some, but will yield a lighter, lower calorie dressing.
  • Nutritional info is calculated using all of the dressing and I'm not so sure you would want to use all of it. The dressing recipe makes quite a bit. Nutritional info is also calculated using Just Mayo from Hampton Creek and Lite&Sweet.

Nutrition

Serving: 1large salad | Calories: 507kcal | Carbohydrates: 29.2g | Protein: 24.5g | Fat: 38.4g | Saturated Fat: 4.5g | Cholesterol: 63.8mg | Sodium: 759mg | Fiber: 4.5g | Sugar: 8.9g