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Recipe Fried Chicken Salad
Photo Description:
As the picture shows you, this is an appetizing fried chicken salad with cranberries and the different colors make it look appealing and interesting. You can see the crumbled cornbread, shredded lettuce and other bite-size ingredients, which mean you can just grab a fork and eat this easily. The buttermilk dressing gives this salad a creamy flavor and anyone who enjoys easy chicken recipes will find this simple to make. The textures and flavors are amazing together and this moist and fruity fried chicken salad is sure to be a hit with everybody.
Warm Fried Chicken Salad with Cranberries
This recipe for fried chicken salad combines the flavors of chicken, cranberries, ranch dressing, tomatoes, lettuce and more for a tasty, substantial meal. When making salad recipes, you can often combine cool and warm ingredients and they go together really nicely. Warm and cold tend to go better than hot and cold so allow the chicken to rest for a few minutes. Some recipes for fried chicken salad use leftover chicken and you need to be careful when reheating chicken because it might dry out. It is best to reheat it very gently.
This is a colorful recipe and one, which has lots of different flavors and textures in it, to keep it interesting. The cornbread is a nice touch here. Not only does the flavor suit this fried chicken salad with cranberries recipe but also the crumbly texture makes a welcome addition and it also makes the salad more substantial and satisfying. You can serve this tasty southern fried chicken salad for lunch or dinner or perhaps keep the portion sizes small and serve it as an appetizer.
This recipe for fried chicken salad has hot fried chicken in a ranch dressing coating over cold salad ingredients, including cranberries for a sweet, tart and juicy flavor and there is also a little Tabasco sauce added to give this fried chicken salad recipe a bit of a kick. If you want to combine a delicious fried chicken recipe with a healthy salad, this fried chicken salad is the ideal way to do it, because the crunchy warm chicken on top of the salad ingredients will make you forget you are eating something, which is good for you.
Warm and Tasty Fried Chicken Salad
Ingredients -
2 skinless boneless whole chicken breasts
2 teaspoons salt
2 cups flour
½ cup milk
1 teaspoon Tabasco sauce
1 egg
1 head romaine lettuce, shredded
½ cup cherry tomatoes, halved
½ cup dried cranberries
½ cup and 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
1 ½ cups your favorite buttermilk ranch dressing (We recommend Ken's Steak House Dressing)
1 package cornbread mix
Preparation:
Put the chicken breasts into a Ziploc bag one at a time and pound them until they are ½ inch thick. Cut them into strips. Combine the flour and salt in a bowl.
Whisk a cup of ranch dressing with the milk, Tabasco sauce, and egg in another bowl. Dredge the chicken pieces in the flour and then dip them into the ranch batter. Coat them with flour again and place them on wax paper.
Heat 3 tablespoons of the oil in a skillet over a medium high heat. Add enough chicken to cover the bottom of the skillet and fry until cooked through and golden. This will take about 3 minutes per batch. Put the chicken on a paper towel lined plate to drain the excess oil. Discard the oil after the first batch and replace it to cook the rest of the chicken, changing the oil after each batch.
Make the cornbread per the package instructions. When done allow to cool slightly so it can be handled.
Toss the lettuce, tomatoes, cranberries and the rest of the ranch dressing in a big bowl, divide the mixture between 4 plates and top with the fried chicken strips and crumble some of the cornbread onto each plate.
Top with some more of the buttermilk ranch dressing as desired.
(Serves 4)