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Applebee’s Grilled Chicken Oriental Salad

Applebee’s Grilled Chicken Oriental Salad has to be one of my most requested recipes. Honestly I can’t think of a recipe that has been more requested than the Applebee’s Grilled Chicken Oriental Salad. Applebee’s has been serving the Grilled Chicken Oriental Salad for years now, and this is a restaurant that is known for swapping out their menu on a fairly regular basis. What makes this salad so special? Crisp rice noodles, toasted almonds, fresh lettuce are served with an oriental dressing.
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Applebee’s Grilled Chicken Oriental Salad

Applebee's Grilled Chicken Oriental Salad

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  • Recipe Type: Copycat Restaurant Recipes, CopyKat Recipes, Salad Recipes
  • Prep time: 10 minutes
  • Cook time: 10 minutes
  • Serves: 1
Applebee's Grilled Chicken Oriental Salad

You can make your own Applebee's Grilled Chicken Oriental salad at home; it is so tasty, and so easy to do. Best of all is you can customize this salad and put in the ingredients that you enjoy the most.

Ingredients

  • 6-8 cups romaine lettuce
  • 2 chicken breasts
  • 1/2 cup crispy rice noodles
  • 1/2 cup sliced almonds
  • 2 tablespoons shredded carrots
  • 2 tablespoons olive oil
  • Salt and pepper
  • Applebee's Oriental Salad Dressing

Instructions

Grill chicken breasts, by first placing into plastic wrap, and gently pounding them to about 3/8 of an inch thick. If you have a grill you can use a grill to cook your chicken breasts. You can also cook the chicken breasts in a skillet, add olive oil to a skillet and heat on medium heat. Season chicken breasts with salt and pepper, and cook for approximately 5 to 7 minutes on each side. Place fully cooked chicken breasts onto a plate, and allow it to rest for 4 to 5 minutes before slicing.

Toast almonds by placing in a small skillet over medium heat, watch almonds carefully, there is a fine line between toasted almonds and burnt almonds. Shake pan gently and when you begin to smell the almonds they are toasting, allow them to toast for a few seconds more and immediately place almonds onto a paper towel and allow them to cool for a moment or two.

Assemble salads by first putting down the lettuce, I use about 3 to 4 cups of lettuce, add the shredded carrot, 1/4 cup crispy rice noodles, 1/4 cup toasted almonds, and then place on sliced chicken. Serve with plenty of the Applebee's Oriental Salad Dressing.

Now, Applebee's Grilled Chicken Oriental Salad is a delicious salad, but there are a few variations that I like to make, I like to change out the type of lettuce, and use a mesculan mix. I also like to add a few mandarin oranges, and some finely sliced green onion to go on top, of my personal version of the Applebee's Grilled Chicken Oriental Salad. What changes do you like to make when you make a salad? Do you like any unusual ingredients on your salads?

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  • Anon

    Their dressing is made from pureed chicken fat. That’s why it’s difficult to reproduce the flavor with traditional salad dressing ingredients.

  • Michelle

    You are missing the shredded regular and purple cabbage, and shredded carrots. I was sitting here, eating my leftovers from Applebees, and took note of this. Looking forward to making my own at home!

    • http://www.copykat.com Stephanie

      Thank you for your insight!

  • Michelle

    You are missing the shredded regular and purple cabbage, and shredded carrots. I was sitting here, eating my leftovers from Applebees, and took note of this. Looking forward to making my own at home!

  • kentuckylady717

    This sounds great….will have to try this :)

  • kentuckylady717

    This sounds great….will have to try this :)

  • Robin Crittenden

    doesn’t Applebee’s use mostly shredded cabbage in this salad. that’s why I like it so much
    I can say that the Applebee’s I went to for investigation of this recipe, this wasn’t the case, but you know, you can add anything you like to your salad to make it your own! ~Stephanie

    • Lindsay K.

      Yes, Robin. The salad mix of the Oriental salad is half romaine and half dry slaw, you can also but this bagged in the salad section of the super market. I used to work for a franchise of Applebee’s.

    • Kathy L

      The Applebee’s by me don’t use Romaine at all….It seems more like Napa Cabbage and possibly another type of cabbage(maybe bok choy) that has been shredded/juliennned with some purple cabbage, shredded carrots and almonds and crispy noodles for garnish…it is by far my favorite salad at Applebee….LOVE the dressing….

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