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    Home > Salads & Dressings > Aspen Village Salad With Salami

    Aspen Village Salad With Salami

    Published: Dec 12, 2017 · Modified: Aug 7, 2022 by Lea Ann Brown · This post may contain affiliate links

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    Easy Hearty Chicken Salami Salad, a recipe from Aspen Colorado

    This hearty salad with salami is an entree salad with roasted chicken breasts dusted with just the right chile powder, and finished with just the right creamy Southwestern dressing. With avocado, it will remind you of an Italian Chopped Salad that has taken a Winter trip South of the Border.

    Aspen Village chicken salami salad

    Picture yourself in front of the roaring fire, eating this hearty tossed salad with salami and sipping on a glass of crisp Pinot Gris. Perfect after a day on the slopes, don’t you think?

    Whether you’re a ski bum or not, everyone needs a Winter salad recipe. Bright, fresh, green and hearty, a perfect combination for when you’re convinced that it will never be warm again.

    Cold and refreshing, this is a salad with salami that will guide you through those cold months when gray days and heavy socks have lost their charm.

    This salad does not fit into the usual category of eating a salad for the reasons that we should eat a salad. The words fiber and swimsuits come to mind.

    This is more of a main course salad (ignoring all of our earnest healthful intentions) that includes ingredients like cheese, salami and briny olives. Throw in an insanely good creamy dressing that includes mayonnaise and sour cream and we’re in hearty heaven.

    The creamy dressing steals the show for this recipe. A mixture of mayo, sour cream, lemon juice, dry mustard, cumin and green chile sauce , made with roasted Hatch Chile = divine, creamy and exciting in flavor. Or Homemade Roasted Tomatillo Salsa is also delicious in this dressing.

    Aspen Villager Chicken Salami Salad

    Wine-Talk

    While attending Culinary School at Cook Street, we spent 1 month of intense wine training. Learning about the wine regions of the world, the food that inspires the wine, the wine that inspires the food and tasting…tasting…and tasting. With that training I feel comfortable recommending a wine to you now and then.

    Working on the theory that a Pinot Gris would pair nicely with an Italian Salad with Salami and Mozzarella, I would also recommend it would be nice to wash this salad down with the same. And an Oregon Pinot would be a good choice. The spiciness of a Pinot Gris would fit the profile of the salami.

    And speaking of Italian Salads, I used sticks of Monterey Jack Cheese for this salad, but you could substitute mozzarella to pick up more of an Italian Chopped Salad vibe.

    So, if you’re looking for entree style dinner salad recipes, I hope you give this Colorado version a try. This recipe comes from the first in a series of our Denver Junior League Cookbooks, Colorado Cache.

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    Aspen Village chicken salami salad

    Aspen Village Salad with Salami

    Aspen Village Chicken Salami Salad is an entree salad with roasted chicken breasts dusted with just the right chile powder, and finished with just the right creamy Southwestern dressing. With avocado, it will remind you of an Italian Chopped Salad that has taken a Winter trip South of the Border.
    5 from 1 vote
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    Course: Main Course Salad
    Cuisine: American
    Prep Time: 20 minutes minutes
    Cook Time: 0 minutes minutes
    Total Time: 20 minutes minutes
    Servings: 4
    Calories: 366kcal
    Author: Lea Ann Brown

    Ingredients

    • 1 head Romaine Lettuce washed
    • 2 Boneless skinless chicken breasts roasted
    • 6 slices salami cut into wedges
    • 1/2 teaspoon Red Chile Powder Preferably New Mexico
    • 6 strips Monterey Jack Cheese or Mozarella
    • 1 Avocado peeled and cut into wedges, or cubed
    • 8 yellow cherry-style tomatoes sliced in half
    • 8 pitted ripe olives drained
    • For the dressing:
    • 1/4 Cup Sour Cream
    • 1/4 Cup Mayonnaise
    • 1 Tablespoon fresh lemon juice
    • 1/8 teaspoon dry mustard
    • 1/8 teaspoon garlic salt
    • 1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
    • 2 Tablespoons Roasted Green Chile Sauce
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    Instructions

    • Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a casserole dish, place chicken breasts, sprinkle with chile powder and roast 20 – 30 minutes. (depending on size)
    • In the meantime, in a medium size bowl, combine sour cream, mayonnaise, lemon juice, dry mustard, garlic salt, cumin and Green Chile Sauce. and mix well with a fork, all ingredients for the Green Chile Cumin Dressing. 
    • For each salad, arrange one large outer leaf of Romaine Lettuce on each plate.  Finely chop inner leaves and arrange on top of outer leaves.
    • Cut chicken breasts into strips and place on lettuce. Add cheese, salami, avocado and olives. Cover and chill.
    • At serving time add cumin dressing.

    Notes

    If you want to forego the process of making homemade Green Chile Sauce, a great jarred product to pick up at the store is Jardines Tomatillo Salsa. Quality product with great flavor. I’ve included an Amazon Affiliate Link for your convenience.

    Nutrition

    Calories: 366kcal | Carbohydrates: 12g | Protein: 19g | Fat: 28g | Saturated Fat: 7g | Cholesterol: 62mg | Sodium: 611mg | Potassium: 998mg | Fiber: 7g | Sugar: 3g | Vitamin A: 13885IU | Vitamin C: 16mg | Calcium: 91mg | Iron: 3mg
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    Salad with Salami … It’s Whats for Dinner

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    Comments

    1. Colleen says

      January 04, 2018 at 5:58 am

      LeaAnn, I notice that the recipe posted is missing it’s title – Aspen Village Chicken Salami Salad – and top-notes. Warm regards, Colleen

      Reply
      • Lea Ann Brown says

        January 05, 2018 at 6:38 am

        Thank you! Thank you! Fixed. I really appreciate you telling me.

        Reply
    2. mjskitchen says

      December 14, 2017 at 8:38 pm

      To heck with the salad, just give me a bowl of that salad dressing! Actually, I love the whole salad and those little wedges of salami are a very nice touch.
      Hope you have a wonderful holiday season!!!!

      Reply
    3. Susan says

      December 14, 2017 at 7:39 am

      I only have Colorado Collage and Creme de Colorado, which is my favorite. I think I need get Cache too! This salad sounds delicious!

      Reply
    4. Vickie says

      December 13, 2017 at 9:04 am

      You had me at salami. ?

      Reply
      • Lea Ann Brown says

        December 14, 2017 at 7:13 am

        🙂 I love salami and wish I could eat it more.

        Reply
    5. John/Kitchen Riffs says

      December 13, 2017 at 8:13 am

      Terrific looking salad! Love big hearty main course salads like this — so satisfying. This would definitely fill me up. Thanks!

      Reply
      • Lea Ann Brown says

        December 14, 2017 at 7:12 am

        Thanks John!

        Reply
    6. Larry says

      December 13, 2017 at 7:26 am

      Thanks for the wine lesson and the salad looks delicious but I will continue to subscribe to the thought that if it has the word salad in it, it must be good health food no matter how much fat and calories are added to it 🙂

      Reply
      • Lea Ann Brown says

        December 14, 2017 at 7:12 am

        I share that same theory Larry. 🙂

        Reply
    7. Liz says

      December 12, 2017 at 5:54 pm

      I have 3 of those Denver Junior League cookbooks–I love them all. But I have never tried this recipe—it looks wonderful!!

      Reply
      • Lea Ann Brown says

        December 14, 2017 at 7:11 am

        Thanks Liz. This recipe comes from the very first one Colorado Cache. I’ve used mine so much it’s falling apart. 🙂

        Reply

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