Spicy Asian Chopped Salad

This is an easy to make Spicy Asian Chopped Salad.  The dressing is very easy to make and doesn’t require any exotic ingredients.  Chopped cooked chicken would be great in this salad, but I haven’t tried that yet.  Chopped peanuts would be a great addition too, sprinkled on top

If you like this recipe be sure to check out these other great Asian inspired recipes:

• Rice Cooker Chinese Fried Rice
• Thai Chicken Asparagus
• Thai Cucumber Salad
• Easy Red Chicken Curry with Sweet Potatoes

More Great Salad Recipes

• Doritos Taco Salad
• Our Favorite Italian Salad Dressing
• Easy Pasta Salad
• Easy Garbanzo Bean Greek Salad
• Chopped Salad with Bacon in a Cilantro Dressing – My kids all go nuts over this salad dressing!
• Secret Sauce Fruit Salad

Spicy Asian Chopped Salad

Here’s what you will to make this wonderful spicy chopped salad:

For the Spicy Asian Salad Dressing

• 1/2 cup Mae Ploy Sweet Chili Sauce – it’s in the Asian section of your grocery store
• 1/4 cup heavy cream
• 2 tablespoons soy sauce
• 2 tablespoons lime juice
• 1 heaping tablespoon peanut butter
• 2 cloves minced garlic

For the Spicy Asian Salad

• 2 heads romaine
• 1/3 head of green cabbage – thinly sliced
• 1/2 red onion – cut into thin slices
• 1 cucumber – peeled and cut into bite sized pieces

In a sauce pan combine all the Asian Salad Dressing ingredients.

Heat over medium and stir until everything is combined.  Turn off the heat and remove the dressing from the burner so it can cool down.

Now it’s time to get the Asian salad chopped.  I like to cut long strips down the center of the romaine heads, I make a slice down the length of the romaine head from just above the core (don’t cut through the core) to the tip, slicing right through the whole head, then I turn the head and cut down the next leave’s center and repeat a few times, depending on the size of your romaine lettuce.  Then I cut across the romaine head into bite-sized pieces.  There’s a video of this way of slicing romaine at the end of this post.

Below, you can see I have all romaine, cabbage, red onion, and cucumber sliced and tossed together.

After the homemade Asian salad dressing has cooled and is room temp go ahead and pour it on top of the tossed salad.  If you are just one person or a couple, you may want to toss just what you will be eating and store the dressing separate from the salad until you are ready to eat it.

Toss to combine everything.  Serve the Spicy Asian Chopped salad immediately.

Spicy Asian Chopped Salad

Shelly

Spicy chopped Asian Salad

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Prep Time 15 mins

Cook Time 2 mins

Total Time 17 mins

Course Salad

Cuisine Asian

Servings 6

Ingredients

  

• 1/2 cup Mae Ploy Sweet Chili Sauce - it's in the Asian section of your grocery store
• 1/4 cup heavy cream
• 2 tablespoons soy sauce
• 2 tablespoons lime juice
• 1 tablespoon heaping tablespoon peanut butter
• 2 cloves minced garlic
• -------------------------Salad Ingredients-----
• 2 heads romaine lettuce
• 1/3 head green cabbage - thinly sliced
• 1/2 red onion - thinly sliced
• 1 cucumber - peeled and sliced into bite sized pieces

Instructions

 

• Combine the dressing ingredients, Mae Ploy Sweet Chili sauce, heavy cream, soy sauce, lime juice, peanut butter, and minced garlic in a saucepan. Heat ingredients over medium heat, stirring until they are all well blended. Remove pan from heat and let the dressing cool down to room temp.
• In a big salad bowl, combine, the romaine lettuce cut into bite sized pieces, green cabbage, red onion, and cucumber, toss to combine.
• When salad dressing is room temp, pour it over the chopped salad and toss to combine.
• Serve immediately.

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