High Protein Salads
Salads that actually fill you up — Spicy Salmon Salad, Healthy ranch chicken salad, Southwestern Chicken Salad, Buffalo Chicken Salad — for busy weeknights.
★ lunch
lunchIngredients
- .25 lb Sushi grade Salmon
- 1/2 Avocado
- .25 lb Seaweed Salad
- 1 tbsp Tobiko
- 1-2 tbsp Kewpie Mayo
- 1 tbsp Siracha Sauce
- 1. tsp Soy Sauce
- Spring Mix with Spinach
- Sesame Seeds
- Salt
Instructions
- 1Chop your salmon into small pieces
- 2add kewpie mayo (or regular),Siracha soy sauce and tobiko to salmon and mix well. adjust mayo and siracha to liking. Add salt to taste as well one to two sprinkles is usually enough.
- 3Put salad mix in a bowl i personally use spring mix with spinach
- 4Top salad with salmon, seaweed salad and spring with sesame seeds.
- 5slice half an avocado and add to bowl
- 6Enjoy!!!
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A salad only works on a weeknight if it holds you until morning. That means chicken or salmon front and center, something creamy like avocado or Greek yogurt, and enough crunch that nobody at the table calls it a side.
Cooks on Pepper reach for these on the nights the oven stays off — after a long day, in the heat of summer, or when there's leftover chicken in the fridge and twenty minutes to work with.
Every recipe here is built around real protein: Spicy Salmon Salad with avocado and seaweed, Tzatziki Chicken Salad with grated cucumber and garlic, Buffalo Chicken Salad with wing sauce, Pickle Lovers Chicken Salad, and Chipotle chicken salad with a little honey in the mix.
Quick Tips
- 1
Salt the chicken early
Season the breasts with salt and pepper at least 15 minutes before they hit the pan so the meat holds juice instead of drying out.
- 2
Rest before you chop
Let cooked chicken sit 5 to 10 minutes off the heat, then dice or shred it — chopping it hot pushes all the juice onto the cutting board.
- 3
Dry the greens well
Spin or pat romaine completely dry before dressing; even a tablespoon of water thins the dressing and leaves the leaves limp.
- 4
Dress right before serving
Toss everything together in the last 2 minutes, especially with mayo or yogurt dressings, so the lettuce stays crisp.
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