Roasted Chicken, Fruit & Nut Salad with White Balsamic Dressing
A delicious salad that hits the savory, sweet, crunch, and tart cravings all at once. One of my favorite salads to make for dinner for our family for a weeknight meal.
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.
Notes
**Ovens: Gas vs Electric Ovens. **
Gas ovens can bake hotter, if yours does reduce the baking temperature to 325 degrees to avoid getting a burnt outside edge on your loaf.
Electric ovens can bake cooler. There is a 20 to 25 degree difference in how an electric oven bakes compared to a gas oven. If you find that your electric oven generally takes longer to bake things, increase the temperature to 375 degrees to get the same result as baking at 350 degrees.