Easy summer meals that you don't need to turn your oven on for are a must which is what makes this recipe the perfect dinner for hot days! Though full of filling ingredients like chicken and black beans this salad is still a light meal!
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Why Choose This Recipe
- Easy summer dinner especially when it's hot!
- A make ahead meal!
- Filling but light dinner salad like my Chicken Pasta Caesar Salad or Salmon Piccata Salad!
Ingredient Notes
- Poppy Seed Dressing - use your favorite brand or click HERE to get my recipe to make your own.
- Shredded Cheese - cheddar or colby jack.
- Pineapple - Fresh pineapple may be substituted for canned.
Step by Step Instructions
- You can prepare this as individual salads or as one big salad for people to dish up themselves.
- Wash, drain and chop the iceberg and romaine lettuces.
- Add the shredded cheese.
- Add the cooked, chopped chicken.
- Add the sliced green onions.
- Add pineapple chunks or tidbits. If you have fresh pineapple definitely use it in place of canned.
- Drain and rinse the black beans then add them to the salad.
- Add the cashews and rice noodles.
- Toss all the ingredients to distribute them throughout the salad.
- Either cover to serve later or drizzle with poppy seed dressing, toss to coat and serve!
Recipe FAQs and Expert Tips
Romaine lettuce may look intimidating to cut up but don't worry! If you need a little help knowing how to do this check out these instructions on How to Cut Romaine Lettuce!
Here is a great post teaching you How To Cook Chicken Breasts and chop them up for recipes.
Yes, you can toss the salad ingredients together first thing in the morning without the poppy seed dressing so it doesn't get soggy, cover and store in the fridge. Drizzle and toss with the poppy seed dressing when you're ready to serve and eat!
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Caribbean Chicken Salad Recipe
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 0 minutes
- Total Time: 10 minutes
- Yield: 4 Large Dinner Salads 1x
- Category: Salad
- Method: Tossing
- Cuisine: American
Description
Easy summer meals that you don't need to turn your oven on for are a must which is what makes this recipe the perfect dinner for hot days! Though full of filling ingredients like chicken and black beans this salad is still a light meal!
Ingredients
- 3-4 Cups Chopped Romaine Lettuce
- 3-4 Cups Iceberg Lettuce
- 2 Cups, cooked, chopped Chicken
- 1 ½ Cups Shredded Colby Jack Cheese
- 8-10 Green Onions, sliced up
- 1 (15 oz) Can Black Beans, drained and rinsed
- 2 (8 oz) Cans of Pineapple Tidbits, drained OR 1 ½ Cups Bite Sized pieces of fresh Pineapple
- 2 (3oz) Cans Rice Noodles aka Asian Style Crunchy Noodles
- 1 Cup Cashew halves and pieces
- Bottle of your favorite Poppy Seed Salad Dressing
Instructions
- Wash, chop, drain, and prepare all the ingredients.
- Toss the lettuces, chicken, cheese, black beans, pineapple, green onions, rice noodles, and cashews together.
- To save for later don't add the dressing yet. Just cover and store in the fridge.
- To serve immediately, drizzle with poppy seed dressing and toss to coat. Serve.
Notes
- Click for my recipe for Poppy Seed Dressing if you would like to make your own.
- If you have fresh pineapple definitely use it instead of canned.
- You can toss the salad together first thing in the morning and add the dressing before serving.
Keywords: easy summer meals, summer dinner ideas hot days, Caribbean chicken salad
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Mindee
Quick and easy!
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Jeff
Lunch time favorite
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