Steps to Prepare Ultimate Cranberry-Chicken Chopped Salad

Hey everyone, it’s Jim, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, cranberry-chicken chopped salad. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Cranberry-Chicken Chopped Salad is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Cranberry-Chicken Chopped Salad is something that I’ve loved my entire life.

To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have cranberry-chicken chopped salad using 15 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Cranberry-Chicken Chopped Salad:

1. Take 1 head romaine lettuce; chopped
2. Make ready 4 shallots; small dice
3. Make ready 2 serrano peppers; small dice
4. Make ready 1 C mayonnaise
5. Make ready 1/3 C cranberry simple syrup
6. Get 2 limes; zested and juiced
7. Prepare 2 boneless, skinless chicken breast
8. Make ready 1 T ground coriander
9. Make ready 1 t cumin
10. Make ready 1 t onion powder
11. Get 1/2 t garlic powder
12. Prepare 1/2 C goat cheese crumbles
13. Get 4 slices bacon; small dice
14. Make ready 1 bundle cilantro; chiffonade
15. Take as needed kosher salt & black pepper

Steps to make Cranberry-Chicken Chopped Salad:

1. Preheat oven to 400º
2. Cover chicken breasts with enough oil to coat. Season with dried spices.
3. Heat enough oil to cover the bottom of a cast iron or oven-safe pan. Sear the breasts with the "skin side" down for about 2 minutes, or until nicely caramelized and breasts lift easily out of the pan.
4. Sear the other side for 1 minute, and place pan in the oven and cook until chicken reaches 165°, about 8 minutes.
5. Let chicken rest 5 minutes before cutting into a medium dice.
6. Whisk together mayonnaise, cranberry simple syrup, lime zest and juice, salt, and pepper.
7. In a mixing bowl, combine chicken, bacon, goat cheese, cilantro, lettuce, shallots, and fresno peppers. Add a pinch of salt pepper. Add enough dressing to coat. Toss to combine.
8. Save extra dressing for up to a week on the fridge.
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10. Sea salt, acorn squash, butternut squash, sweet potatoes, watermelon, carrots, balsamic vinegar, red wine vinegar, pomegranate vinegar

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