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Ms. Autumn

Cooking Level: Intermediate

Home Town: Stockton, California, USA

Reviewed: Jun. 8, 2012

This recipe was really good after a few tweaks. I felt the dressing needed some sweetness so I added some Stevia. I used fresh grilled chicken breasts and added mandarin oranges. For convenience, I used pre packaged cole slaw mix and shreaded romaine hearts for the lettuce.

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Lillydee

Cooking Level: Expert

Home Town: Reno, Nevada, USA

Living In: Citrus Heights, California, USA

Reviewed: Jul. 10, 2011

I use this recipe a lot. Instead of the cabbage and lettuce, I substitute 2 bags of broccoli slaw, a couple of shredded carrots and a bag of snow pea pods. I will also add some water chestnuts, bean sprouts and a cup of cashews. I use freshly cooked diced chicken breast to cut back a little on the sodium. Another substitution is using olive oil for a better oil since there is high cholesterol and high blood pressure in the family.

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Catherine

Reviewed: Jun. 7, 2011

This is really good! I've never had Chinese Chicken Salad. I tweaked it a bit and used only a 1 lb package of coleslaw mix, no lettuce. Because of the decrease in greens, I cut back to 2 packages ramen and for the dressing cut back on the vegetable oil to 3 T plus 1 T sesame oil and the 1 T soy sauce and the 2 seasoning packets. I also used leftover roasted chicken, but other than that followed the recipe. The resulting salad was a tad on the salty side (next time I will try cutting back on the vinegar by a tablespoon as seasoned rice vinegar is quite salty I found), but other than that it is PERFECT! Exactly what I hoped for. The flavors and textures of everything work together great. I think it would have been too oily with a whole 3/4 C oil though, even with the additional noodles and lettuce. In the future I will experiment with adding some canned mandarins or pineapple like others have done. Yummy! Can't wait to have this for lunch the next couple days.

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The Bunny Chef

Cooking Level: Intermediate

Living In: Fairbanks, Alaska, USA

Reviewed: Oct. 14, 2010

It's a refreshing and simple chinese chicken salad. My whole family loves it and they are pretty picky.

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Michelle

Reviewed: Sep. 13, 2010

my coworker made this for a potluck once and i had to try making it myself. it was super yummy. my boyfriend who doesnt like salad ate it all up. i added a Tablespoon of Sesame Oil. I think next time I will only put 2 of the 3 ramen packets in the dressing.

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mzbabyber

Cooking Level: Intermediate

Reviewed: Jul. 26, 2010

we loved this one!

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Vicki

Reviewed: Feb. 22, 2010

My family loves this for a change of pace because they can graze on it all evening. I make it even easier by using a bag of coleslaw mix from the produce department. It's cabbage and red cabbage with a touch of carrot. I usually use leftover roasted chicken or whatever I had in the house. This time it happened to be leftover turkey. I substituted with turkey and nobody even noticed! I also used peanut and sesame oil and slightly less. I added toasted sesame seeds too. To the dressing, I added a touch of ginger.

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CanAm

Cooking Level: Expert

Living In: Penticton, British Columbia, Canada

Reviewed: Jun. 7, 2008

Talk about Yummy. I took this to a church picnic and it was gone in a flash! I already had a prepared Chinese Chicken Salad dressing, so I used about a cup of that and added the soy sauce and flavor packets to that, then followed the directions to prepare it. It was great. Instead of using a head of cabbage, I used a prepared coleslaw bag, which also had slivered carrots and red cabbage in it. My husband wanted a little more snap so I threw in some snow peas, sliced in about thirds, and some chopped up celery. I used Romaine lettuce instead of Iceberg. Instead of regular almonds I used a salad topper roasted almonds packet. It was so easy and delicious, I had people asking for the recipe left and right.

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