This healthy Asian Chicken Pasta salad is so light and refreshing! Perfect as a cold main-dish salad, for dinner or lunch (or both! What the hey?). Its mild flavors will please the kids, but it’s certainly not lacking flavor for the adults in your life.
Whip this up and package it in individual containers for easy grab lunches for the week. Serve this on the patio on paper plates on a perfect spring day. Make ahead and have dinner on the boat (this is how we ate it the first time!).
However you choose to eat it, make sure you let us know how much you love it!
Ingredients
- 1 lb boneless, skinless chicken breast
- 8 oz brown rice noodles
- 3 cups romaine lettuce
- 1/2 cup carrot grated (about 1 medium carrot)
- 1 Tbsp sesame seeds
Sauce
- 1/3 cup mayonnaise no sugar listed in ingredients
- 2 Tbsp white wine vinegar
- 2 Tbsp Bragg Liquid Aminos
- 1 1/2 Tbsp honey
- 1 1/2 Tbsp sesame oil
- 1 tsp natural peanut butter
- 1/4 tsp rice wine vinegar
- 1 tsp bottled minced garlic
- 1/8 tsp hot sauce
Instructions
Cook Chicken: Instant Pot
- Add 1 cup water to instant pot. Fit insert with trivet. Place chicken on trivet. Lock lid; set valve to sealing. Program for manual-high and 20 minutes. Use quick release or natural pressure release.
- Remove chicken from instant pot and shred using two forks or an electric mixer. Set aside.
- While chicken is cooking, cook noodles according to package directions. Drain. Chop lettuce.
- Add chicken, noodles, lettuce, carrot, and sesame seeds to a large bowl. toss well. Set aside.
Sauce
- Combine all sauce ingredients in a blender. Blend well. Pour over chicken mixture and toss well to coat.
Cook Chicken: Stovetop
- Bring pot of water to a boil. Add chicken. Boil 20 minutes. Remove from water and shred chicken with two forks or in an electric mixer. Set aside.
- While chicken is cooking, cook noodles according to package directions. Drain. Chop lettuce.
- Add chicken, noodles, lettuce, carrot, and sesame seeds to a large bowl. toss well. Set aside.
Sauce
- Combine all sauce ingredients in a blender. Blend well. Pour over chicken mixture and toss well to coat.
Pin this healthy Asian chicken pasta salad recipe to your favorite boards. Use the pin button on the image below (hover to see it on desktop). This would go great on clean eating boards, salad boards, Asian food boards, pasta boards, potluck boards, summer boards, and more.
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