Roasted Chicken Fruit & Nut Salad
Roasted Chicken, Fruit & Nut Salad with White Balsamic Dressing has all the salty, sweet, and tart flavor profiles that make for a robust tasty salad. Fresh simple ingredients come together to create this mouth-watering salad. This salad is so easy and quick to make that it’s the perfect option for a flavorful healthy weeknight meal.
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Salted or Unsalted Nuts?
For this salad, we use a combination of both kinds of nuts. The walnuts are unsalted. The honey-roasted mixed nuts are salted.
Storing your Salad:
Place in a bowl and cover with plastic wrap, or place in an air-tight container and place it in the refrigerator.
Ingredients for Roasted Chicken Fruit & Nut Salad:
This is everything you will need to make this salad. Chicken Tenders, olive oil, kosher salt, black pepper, McCormick Roasted Garlic and Herb seasoning blend, Grey Poupon mustard, honey, white balsamic vinegar, baby spinach, arugula, apples, blackberries, dried apricots, dried white figs, crasins, walnut halves, honey roasted mixed nuts .
Can I Omit Ingredients?
YES! If one of the fruits in the salad is not your favorite, please feel free to substitute it with a fruit that is.
How to Make Roasted Chicken Fruit & Nut Salad:
The most critical tool needed for this recipe is a ball jar with a lid.
- First, season and bake the chicken tenders.
- Then please all the dressing ingredients into the ball/mason jar, place the lid on, and shake it until the dressing comes together.
- Then arrange all the salad ingredients on a plate.
- Top it off with the homemade white balsamic salad dressing.
Want some crunchy homemade croutons on this salad? Try our Popular Crouton Recipe:
Homemade Croutons – So simple and easy and a great solution for day-old bread! A perfect flavorful addition to level up any salad for an extra crunch factor.
Roasted Chicken, Fruit & Nut Salad with White Balsamic Dressing
Equipment
- ball jar/mason jar with lid
Ingredients
Roasted Chicken Tenders
- 1 package of raw fresh chicken (cut of tenders)
- 1 drizzle of olive oil
- 1 sprinkling of kosher salt
- 1 sprinkling of black pepper
- 1 sprinkling of McCormick Roasted Garlic and Herb seasoning blend
White Balsamic Salad Dressing (Makes enough for 4 salads)
- 1 ¼ teaspoons salt
- 1 teaspoon black pepper
- 1 teaspoon dried oregano
- 1 teaspoon McCormick Roasted Garlic and Herb seasoning blend
- 1 tablespoon Grey Poupon mustard
- 2 tablespoons honey
- ¾ cup white balsamic vinegar
- ½ cup extra virgin olive oil
Salad Ingredients (per salad)
- 1 heaping handful of pre-washed baby spinach
- 1 heaping handful of pre-washed arugula
- 1 apple, pealed and sliced
- 1 small handful of blackberries
- 6 dried apricots, sliced
- 6 dried white figs, sliced
- 1 small sprinkling of crasins
- 1 small sprinkling of walnut halves
- 1 small sprinkling of honey roasted mixed nuts
- 3 roasted chicken tenders, cut into chunks
Instructions
Roasted Chicken Tenders
- Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees
- Line a cookie tray with parchment paper.
- Place chicken tenders on parchment paper.
- Sprinkle a small amount of olive oil, salt, pepper, and McCormick Roasted Garlic and Herb seasoning blend over the chicken.
- Flip the chicken tenders over and season the back side with a small sprinkling amount of salt, pepper, and McCormick Roasted Garlic and Herb seasoning blend over the chicken.
- Place in the oven and cook for 20/25 minutes or until chicken reaches 165 degrees
White Balsamic Salad Dressing (Makes enough for 4 salads)
- In a ball jar/mason jar add (IN THIS ORDER): salt, pepper, oregano, McCormick Roasted Garlic and Herb seasoning blend, white balsamic vinegar, Grey Poupon mustard, honey, and extra virgin olive oil.
- Place the lid on the jar, seal tightly, and vigorously shake everything together until all the ingredients are mixed together.
Building The Salad/s (per salad)
- On a plate, layer (IN THIS ORDER): baby spinach, arugula, apple, blackberries, dried apricots, dried white figs, crasins, walnuts, honey roasted mixed nuts, and roasted chicken.
- Shake up the salad dressing again just in-case it separated, remove the lid, and add as many spoonfuls of the dressing as you would like over the top of the salad.
