It doesn’t have quite the expected salty-sweet-sour-hot flavor of most Thai dishes, but no matter. This crunchy-munchy salad with a tangy, creamy peanut butter dressing from The Dirty, Lazy, Keto No Time to Cook Cookbook is totally delicious! It’s also shockingly fast to prepare, provided you have pre-cooked chicken breast. But even if you don’t, it’s still crazy-simple, and it promises results you’ll want to repeat again and again. We like it so much, we double the dressing so we can have a future salad with even more ease. Author Stephanie Laska sheds some background on this tasty dish:“In my “previous life” (when I weighed close to 300 pounds), I frequented Panera Bread for lunch. I ordered the Spicy Thai Salad with Chicken (thinking I was being healthy), a giant Candy Cookie (knowing I wasn’t), and washed both down with a Diet Coke (which made up for indiscretions). Little did I know that my meal contained about 100 grams of carbs! That’s not even counting the dozen bagels I bought on my way out the door. These days, when I want a fast and casual lunch, I make this Thai Time Crunch Salad.”[Reprinted with permission from The Dirty, Lazy, Keto No Time to Cook Cookbook: 100 Easy Recipes to Save Money & Time by Stephanie Laska, MEd, and William Laska (Adams Media, 2021).]Click HERE to read our book review.
Ingredients List
DRESSING
- 1 Tbsp no-sugar-added peanut butter
- 1 Tbsp soy sauce
- 1 Tbsp water
- 5 (1-gram) packets 0g net carbs sweetener
- 2 tsp apple cider vinegar
- 1/3 cup sesame oil
- 1/8 tsp ground ginger
- 1/2 tsp sesame seeds
- 1/4 tsp red pepper flakes
- 1/4 cup salted peanuts, crushed
SALAD
- 6 cups shredded cabbage mix (green cabbage, red cabbage, carrot blend)
- 1/4 cup chopped green onion
- 1/4 cup chopped fresh cilantro
- 1½ cups shredded Grab and Go Chicken Breasts (recipe below) or cooked chicken breast, cold
Instructions
- In a medium bowl, whisk together all Dressing ingredients except crushed peanuts. Cover and set aside.
- In a large mixing bowl, combine cabbage mix, green onion, and cilantro and stir. Add chicken and mix again.
- Add Dressing to Salad. Toss to fully coat.
- Divide equally among four bowls. Top with equal amounts of crushed peanuts.
- Serve chilled.
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So delicious, quick and easy! We are touring in our class B RV and meals like this really make a difference! we stopped at Costco and got a rotisserie chicken for $4.99, I made this recipe and my man thinks I am a chef!
It was great! Quick and easy! I went to Trader Joes and bought seasoned roasted chicken slices already cooked and got a bag of the three shredded cabbage that already had cilantro in it. I added a little more cilantro and green onion. I had plenty of leftovers for a quick snack or lunch!!
Perfect weeknight dinner. Quick, easy, tasty. I shredded a head of Napa cabbage instead of the cabbage mix and it was great.