Curried Chicken Salad

My favourite Curried Hen Salad has hen, asparagus, pine nuts, and a creamy lemony dressing with curry flavors and a contact of mustard! And curry followers who like hen and asparagus will make this scrumptious salad recipe again and again!

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Curried Hen Salad is a recipe I’ve been ready to function, as a result of in Utah we saved getting wet climate so I believed chilly hen and asparagus salad is perhaps pushing it. However I seen once I checked my weblog stats that a couple of salad recipes had gone loopy on Pinterest, so I made a decision a few of you’re prepared for salads!

I’m an enormous salad fan, and a few of my favourite restaurant meals are salads that I order again and again and by no means get uninterested in. And once I ate leftovers from this salad for breakfast the day after we shot the brand new images, I needed there had been a bit extra left!

We made a couple of adjustments to this salad recipe once we up to date it, together with switching out the peanuts within the unique salad for pine nuts, which had been an incredible change! Right here’s the printer-friendly model of the unique recipe, in case anybody was a fan of the older model.

What elements do you want for this recipe?

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• recent asparagus
• cooked hen breast
• inexperienced onion
• pine nuts
• salt and fresh-ground black pepper to style
• buttermilk, bitter cream, or Greek Yogurt for dressing
• mayo
• fresh-squeezed lemon juice (I used my fresh-frozen lemon juice)
• lemon zest
• curry powder (affiliate hyperlink)
• Dijon Mustard (affiliate hyperlink)

How did we make the Curried Hen Salad recipe simpler?

For the up to date model of this salad we used pre-cooked and minimize up rotisserie hen from Costco, which made the salad simpler to place collectively.

What Curry Powder did we use to taste this Hen Salad?

I used a mixture of gentle and sizzling curry powder for this recipe, however any curry powder you want the flavour of can be scrumptious right here.

What for those who don’t need asparagus within the Curried Hen Salad?

This salad additionally has asparagus which I do know some individuals don’t have heat fuzzy emotions about. If you wish to attempt a distinct veggie, I feel barely-blanched sugar snap peas, broccoli, or inexperienced beans would even be good.

How low in carbs is that this curried hen salad with asparagus?

Hen, asparagus, and pine nuts are all further low in carbs, so this superb salad recipe has solely 3.5 web carbs per serving with 37 grams of protein!

How you can make Curried Hen Salad:

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1. Reduce asparagus on the diagonal into items after which blanch in salted water.
2. When you’re ready for water to return to a boil and cooking asparagus, zest the lemon and squeeze the juice. You should use a superb cheese grater for those who don’t have a lemon zester (affiliate hyperlink).
3. Whisk collectively elements to make the curry dressing.
4. After three minutes, drain asparagus properly.
5. Lay out a paper towel on the counter and unfold out the asparagus, then cowl with one other paper towel and blot away as a lot water as potential.
6. Let asparagus cool when you minimize up sufficient cooked hen to make 4 cups.
7. Slice inexperienced onions on the diagonal and measure out the pine nuts (or nuts of your alternative.)
8. Mix diced hen and asparagus with desired quantity of dressing.
9. Gently stir within the inexperienced onion and pine nuts, season to style with salt and fresh-ground black pepper, and serve.
10. We saved a couple of pine nuts to sprinkle on the highest!
11. The Curried Hen Salad will be saved within the fridge for a couple of hours earlier than serving, and it was nonetheless superb as leftovers when it had been within the fridge in a single day, so for those who’re cooking for a couple of individuals you may definitely double the recipe.

Make it for a Low-Carb Meal:

If you wish to serve the hen salad with curry flavors as a part of a low-carb meal, it might style nice with any of those decisions:

Extra Tasty Concepts for Asparagus:

Take a look at Low-Carb and Keto Asparagus Recipes to see heaps extra concepts for utilizing my favourite spring vegetable!

Weekend Meals Prep:

Curried Hen Salad has been added to a class known as Weekend Meals Prep that will help you discover recipes you may prep or prepare dinner on the weekend and eat through the week! And once I make this I typically want I had extra left over, so that you may wish to double the recipe!

Low-Carb Eating regimen / Low-Glycemic Eating regimen / South Seaside Eating regimen Options:
This Curried Hen Salad recipe could be accredited for low-carb or Keto food plan plans in addition to any part of the unique South Seaside Eating regimen. South Seaside would advocate mild mayo and different food plan plans would like the full-fat selection so take your alternative on that!

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Historic Notes for this Recipe:
The recipe for hen and asparagus salad with curry dressing was first posted in 2011 and up to date with higher images and some minor adjustments in 2019. The recipe was final up to date with extra data in 2026.