My wife and I love Wendy’s Mandarin Salad. She is diabetic so I had to come up with some thing she could eat. This tastes as good as original with out all the sugar. It’s great.

1/2 cup sugar-free apricot jam
8 tablespoons white distilled vinegar
4 tablespoons pineapple juice
2 tablespoons rice wine vinegar
2 tablespoons soy sauce
2 tablespoons sesame oil
7 tablespoons Splenda granular
2 tablespoons Splenda brown sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon paprika
1/4 teaspoon black pepper
1 cup canola oil
1 teaspoon dark sesame seeds
4 tablespoons creamy peanut butter
1 (6 ounce) can chicken, cut in to bite size pieces
1 head iceberg lettuce, chopped
4 mandarin orange segments, on each salad
1 cup dried chow mein noodles
1 cup roasted sliced almonds

Prepare dressing by combining all dressing ingredients except vegetable oil and sesame seeds. Blend on high speed.

While blending, SLOWLY add oil to mixture to create an emulsion.

After completing emulsion, Add sesame seeds and blend for just a couple of seconds.

Pour dressing into a covered container and chill.

Cut chicken in to bight size pieces.

Build each salad by first arranging about 4 cups of iceberg lettuce in the bottom of a large salad bowl or plate.

Sprinkle bite size pieces of chicken over the salad.

Arrange about 4 mandarin orange wedges on each salad. (you can eliminate to reduce more sugar content).

Add sesame dressing to each salad.

Sprinkle about 1/4 cup dried chow mein noodles and 1/4 cup roasted sliced almonds on top of each salad and serve.

Thanks to Columbamio for sharing this healthy salad recipe.

TAGS | healthy, light, nuts, peanut butter, rice, sesame oil, soy sauce, wine vinegar

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