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    Home > Main Courses > Main Dishes Chicken > Chopped Chicken Salad Recipe with Sweet Chili Mustard Dressing

    Chopped Chicken Salad Recipe with Sweet Chili Mustard Dressing

    Published: Mar 28, 2012 · Modified: Jul 23, 2022 by Lea Ann Brown · This post may contain affiliate links

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    Grilled Chicken Chopped Salad

    A refreshing chopped chicken salad recipe using grilled chicken breasts and lots of your favorite healthy vegetables. A Sweet Chili Mustard dressing is bold and refreshing. Healthy doesn’t get any better than this.

    Grilled chicken chopped salad in a large white flat salad bowl.

    Even though we’ve had Spring weather for about the past two weeks, much of the time the wind has been howling, gusting, tossing patio furniture about the yard and in general just being pesky enough that grilling hasn’t seemed a fun option.

    A window of opportunity this past weekend found me cleaning out the drip pan and scraping those grates clear and sizzling up a chicken breast for this Grilled Chicken Chopped Salad.

    Ingredients For This Chopped Chicken Salad

    All things fresh and healthy:

    • Mixed baby greens
    • Diced tomatoes
    • Toasted slivered almonds
    • Diced cucumberr
    • Grilled chicken breast seasoned with marjoram and cut into bite sized pieces.

    Sounds pretty predictable for a basic chicken salad recipe.

    Sweet and Bold Dressing Ingredients

    So what’s there to talk about?  It’s all about the dressing.

    • Pineapple juice
    • Maggi bottled sweet chili sauce and
    • Dijon mustard

    These simple ingredients join forces to bring you a unique and irresistible dressing. One that you’ll want to make over and over again.

    I’ve included an affiliate link for the sweet chili sauce for your convenience. I am a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites, at no additional charge to you.

    Marjoram Seasoned Chicken = yum

    Seasoning the chicken with marjoram before cooking brings a unique flavor profile to this dish.

    So what does marjoram taste like?

    Marjoram is a member of the mint and oregano family and is known for its aroma and delicate flavor. Marjoram’s flavor is similar to oregano; however a bit more complicated.

    It’s often described as sweeter and more delicate. In addition Marjoram lacks oregano’s spicy undertones. I try and use it as often as I can, as it seems this spice gets forgotten amongst it’s more popular cousins.

    Grilled Chopped Chicken Salad with chopped tomatoes, toasted almonds, cucumber, and a pineapple chile dressing

     Riffs On Sweet Chili Mustard Chopped Chicken Salad

    • Substitute grilled shrimp for the chicken. The marjoram would be a lovely seasoning for shrimp
    • Forget the salad, use this glaze type dressing as a sauce for grilled chicken wings
    • Mix it up. You’re not limited to cucumbers and tomatoes. Add thawed green peas, celery, roasted red bell peppers, or fresh yellow bell peppers. It’s your salad. Use your favorite ingredients. Just make sure to keep it colorful.
    • Substitute the chicken for grilled flank steak that’s been simply seasoned garlic salt. Then replace the almonds with a sprinkle of canned onion rings. You know the ones … like you buy for that green bean casserole at Thanksgiving.
    • Need to make this one vegetarian?  Simply replace the grilled chicken with grilled portabello mushrooms. Don’t forget that marjoram.
    • Want to turn this into a super easy weeknight chicken salad dinner? Use a rotisserie chicken. Just pull the meat off the bones, chop, and toss with salt and pepper and a little marjoram before arranging the meat on salad.

    Chopped Chicken Salad Recipe with Sweet Chili Mustard Dressing

    I hope you give this chopped salad recipe and try, and if you do, please come back and give the recipe a star rating, and leave a comment about your experience with the recipe.

    And if you have a favorite Grilled Chicken Salad, let me know, I’d love to give it a try.

    More Chicken Salad Recipes

    • Grilled Chicken Wilted Salad
    • Strawberry Chicken Salad with Creamy Poppyseed Dressing

    And if you’re looking for more healthy salad recipes, don’t miss my Salad Category. You’ll find lots of tasty recipes for dressings, vinaigrettes, side salads and main course salads. Including the most popular salad recipe on my site for Old Fashioned Taco Salad. And you’ll find my in-depth tutorial on how to make The Most Remarkable Tossed Salad – 9 Secrets.

    Grilled Chopped Chicken Salad with chopped tomatoes, toasted almonds, cucumber, and a pineapple chile dressing

    Sweet Chili-Mustard Grilled Chopped Chicken Salad

    A refreshing chicken salad recipe using grilled chicken breasts and lots of your favorite healthy vegetables. The dressing for this Sweet Chili Mustard Chopped Chicken Salad is packed with unique ingredients for a bold and fresh topping.
    5 from 4 votes
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    Course: Main Course Chicken
    Cuisine: American
    Prep Time: 15 minutes
    Cook Time: 15 minutes
    Total Time: 30 minutes
    Servings: 4
    Calories: 289kcal
    Author: Lea Ann Brown

    Ingredients

    • Dressing:
    • 3/4 Cup pineapple juice
    • 2 Tablespoon bottled sweet chili sauce
    • 2 Tablespoons white wine vinegar
    • 1 Tablespoon soy sauce
    • 1 Tablespoon Dijon mustard
    • 1 teaspoon dark sesame oil
    • 1/2 Cup slivered almonds toasted
    • 4 boneless skinless chicken breasts
    • Canola oil
    • 1/2 teaspoon finely chopped fresh marjoram
    • salt and pepper
    • 4 Cups mixed baby greens
    • 2 tomatoes diced
    • 1 cucumber diced
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    Instructions

    • To make the dressing: In a medium saucepan, whisk together the pineapple juice, chili sauce, vinegar and soy sauce. Bring the mixture to a boil, reduce the heat, and simmer until 1/2 cup remains, 15 – 20 minutes. Transfer to a bowl and whisk in mustard and sesame oil and allow to cool to room temperature.
    • In a medium skillet over medium heat, cook the almonds until lightly toasted, stirring or shaking the pan occasionally.
    • Brush chicken breasts with oil, season with marjoram and salt and pepper. Grill over medium heat until meat is firm to the touch and no longer pink. Approximately 10 minutes. Tent until you can handle and then cut into bite-sized pieces.
    • In a large bowl, combine the greens, chicken, almonds and tomatoes. Drizzle the dressing over the top (you may not need all of it) and toss to evenly coat. Serve immediately.

    Nutrition

    Calories: 289kcal | Carbohydrates: 19g | Protein: 29g | Fat: 11g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 72mg | Sodium: 527mg | Potassium: 897mg | Fiber: 3g | Sugar: 12g | Vitamin A: 1055IU | Vitamin C: 26mg | Calcium: 69mg | Iron: 2mg
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    Sweet Chili-Mustard Chopped Chicken Salad …It’s What’s for Dinner

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    Reader Interactions

    Comments

    1. Kate says

      March 10, 2019 at 10:08 am

      This sauce- it is amazing- delsh. I’m going to try it on pasta and on baked salmon. Kind of obsessed 🙂

      Reply
    2. Lynn Elliott Vining says

      March 25, 2018 at 12:54 pm

      Almost too pretty to eat… ALMOST! LOL

      Reply
    3. Michele @ Bacon Fatte says

      March 24, 2018 at 12:28 am

      5 stars
      LOVE all the beautiful colors and veggies, and that dressing sounds incredibly good! What a delicious combination of flavors!

      Reply
    4. Michaela Kenkel says

      March 23, 2018 at 10:56 pm

      5 stars
      This is one delicious looking salad!! Can’t wait to make it!

      Reply
    5. Christine says

      March 23, 2018 at 11:15 am

      I could dive right into this. Yum!

      Reply
    6. The Food Hunter says

      March 22, 2018 at 8:59 am

      I’m loving everything about this

      Reply
    7. Robin Daumit says

      March 21, 2018 at 8:49 pm

      5 stars
      Great flavors here! Pineapple, soy, and that hot sauce!

      Reply
    8. Claudia Lamascolo says

      March 21, 2018 at 2:37 pm

      this is surely calling my name!

      Reply
      • Lea Ann Brown says

        March 23, 2018 at 4:00 pm

        Thank you Claudia.

        Reply
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