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Asian Chicken Salad Meal Prep

January 9, 2024 by Alea Milham Leave a Comment

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This Asian Chicken Salad Meal Prep recipe makes it easy to meal prep lunches for the week, it is a delicious salad that will revival your favorite take-out salad.

Asian chicken salads in meal prep bowls

This Asian salad is an easy salad for me to pull together in under 15 minutes because it is made from vegetables that I often have on hand. I almost always have lettuce greens, carrots, green onions, and some type of bell pepper in my crisper. I always have sliced almonds in my pantry. And since I like Asian salad dressing so much, I keep the ingredients to make it on hand. I usually cook chicken at least once a week, and when I do I reserve some of the leftover chicken for meal prep salads.

How to Meal Prep Salads

How you meal prep salads depends on if you have condiment containers or not. If you don’t have small containers to put your salad dressing in, then you will need to put the dressing in the bowl first. Then you will add the chicken, carrots, pepper, onion, and almond slices to create a barrier between the salad dressing and the leafy greens. This will prevent the dressing from coming in contact with the salad greens and causing them to wilt.

If you have condiment containers, you can build your salad in a more traditional way by placing the salad greens in first, then adding the chicken, carrots, red pepper, green onion, and almond slivers. Leave enough room to insert a condiment container filled with Asian salad dressing on top of each salad.

Meal Prep Salads Using Leftover Chicken

If you will be cooking chicken for your family, cook a little extra and then use the leftovers to make chicken salads. I used leftover chicken from our Sunday dinner of Slow Cooker Rotisserie Chicken (without the oregano and paprika) to meal prep these salads in under 15 minutes.

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Asian Chicken Salad Meal Prep Recipe

This is a quick and easy recipe for Asian Chicken Salad.

Ingredients:

  • 10 cups salad greens
  • 1 2/3 cups cooked chicken, diced
  • 2/3 cup carrots, julienned
  • 1/3 cup diced red pepper
  • 1 green onion, thinly sliced
  • 1/3 cup sliced almonds

Asian Dressing Ingredients:

  • ⅓ cup olive oil
  • ¼ cup rice vinegar
  • ¼ cup soy sauce (use gluten-free soy sauce to make this gluten-free)
  • 2 tablespoons honey or sugar
  • 1 tablespoon sesame oil
  • 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon ginger
  • 1 tablespoon toasted sesame seeds (optional)

Directions:

1. Add rice vinegar, olive oil,  soy sauce, garlic, honey, sesame oil, garlic, ginger, and sesame seeds to a cruet or a container with a lid. Seal the container and shake vigorously to combine. Pour dressing into 5 condiment containers, then seal the lids, and set aside.

2. Divide the salad greens between 5 lidded bowls.

3. Divide the chicken, carrots, red pepper, green onion, and almond slices between the 5 bowls.

4. Place a container of dressing in each bowl.

5 meal prep Asian chicken salads in glass containers

5. Place the lids on the bowls and seal them. Store the salads in the refrigerator for up to 5 days.

Asian Salad Dressing Video Tutorial

The printable recipe is below, but I just wanted to take a few minutes to show you how quick and easy it is to make this homemade Asian Salad dressing recipe.

Printable Recipe for Asian Chicken Salad Meal Prep

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Asian Chicken Salad Meal Prep Recipe

This is a quick and easy recipe for Asian Chicken Salad. 
Course Salad
Cuisine American
Keyword Asian Chicken Salad, Asian Chicken Salad Meal Prep Recipe
Prep Time 15 minutes minutes
Total Time 15 minutes minutes
Servings 5
Author Alea Milham

Ingredients

  • 10 cups salad greens
  • 1 2/3 cups cooked chicken diced
  • 2/3 cup carrots julienned
  • 1/3 cup diced red pepper
  • 1 green onion thinly sliced
  • 1/3 cup sliced almonds

Asian Dressing Ingredients:

  • ⅓ cup olive oil
  • ¼ cup rice vinegar
  • ¼ cup soy sauce use gluten-free soy sauce to make this gluten-free
  • 2 tablespoons honey or sugar
  • 1 tablespoon sesame oil
  • 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon ginger
  • 1 tablespoon toasted sesame seeds optional

Instructions

  • Add rice vinegar, olive oil,  soy sauce, garlic, honey, sesame oil, garlic, ginger, and sesame seeds to a cruet or a container with a lid. Seal the container and shake vigorously to combine. Pour dressing into 5 condiment containers, then seal the lids, and set aside.
  • Divide the salad greens between 5 lidded bowls.
  • Divide the chicken, carrots, red pepper, green onion, and almond slices between the 5 bowls.
  • Place a container of dressing in each bowl.
  • Place the lids on the bowls and seal them. Store the salads in the refrigerator for up to 5 days.

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Alea Milham is the owner of Premeditated Leftovers and the author of Prep-Ahead Meals from Scatch. She shares her tips for saving money and time while reducing waste in her home. Her favorite hobby, gardening, is a frugal source of organic produce for her recipes. She believes it is possible to live fully and eat well while spending less.

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On Premeditated Leftovers I share simple recipes made with whole foods, practical shopping tips, time saving techniques, and meal planning strategies. I also share tips for minimizing food waste, so more of the food that is purchased ends up on the table.

While volunteering as a budget counselor, I realized that food is the element of most people’s budgets where they have the greatest control. I set out to develop low-cost recipes from scratch to prove it’s possible to create delicious meals on a limited budget. Eating well while spending less is about more than just creating recipes using inexpensive ingredients; it’s about creatively combining ingredients so you don’t feel deprived and are inspired to stick to your budget.

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