Happy Monday!! Wow what a weekend ladies and gentlemen. I am writing this on Sunday night after three days of Heathermade Costco Roadshows and I am beat. But also excited! We sold out at two of the stores and just about at the third, so it was such a wonderful validation of how interested (and in many cases over the moon) people are for these kinds of products. I love it that so many of you are taking care of yourselves and trying to eat foods that make your body happy!
Like this Nectarine Ginger Sesame Chicken Salad- which you should most definitely make for dinner tonight.
This salad is so good that I had it twice last week and I think I will make it again this week. I always a love a great Asian inspired salad, but the addition of sweet juicy nectarines are not only wonderful in the salad on their own- but in the dressing they are incredible. I enjoy a little sweetness to a salad dressing, especially with the ginger, and I love how the beautiful sweet seasonal fruit does that naturally.
I hope that you make this! Let me know what you think.
- Salad:
- 1 head Nappa cabbage, shredded
- 1 cup loosely packed fresh mint leaves
- ½ cup thinly sliced seedless cucumber
- 1 small ripe avocado cut into chunks
- 4 green onions, thinly sliced
- 1 red bell pepper, seeded and thinly sliced
- 1 nectarine, thinly sliced
- 1 red fresno chili, thinly sliced
- 2 cups shredded cooked chicken breast
- toasted and black sesame seeds
- Nectarine Ginger Sesame Dressing
- 2 cloves garlic
- 1 inch peeled ginger, chopped
- ½ nectarine cut into chunks
- ¼ cup sesame oil
- ¼ cup rice wine vinegar
- kosher salt
- Arrange all of the salad ingredients on a platter or toss together in a bowl.
- For the Nectarine Ginger Sesame Dressing: Combine everything in the jar of a blender and puree on high until smooth. Season to taste with kosher salt and then drizzle the salad with the dressing and toss to serve and then sprinkle the sesame seeds over the top.
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Wish you could bring the roadshow to DC area!!! Would’ve loved to see you but I’m sure you did marvelous 🙂 this salad is so full of flavor and looks amazing!
Thank you Julie!
Looks wonderful! Love it when your Monday morning post solves Monday evenings dinner dilemma, thanks Heather ! Between the garden and QFC I’ll have it covered. We BBQed turkey burgers last night so I’ll leave out the chicken and serve the extras on the side.
Oh good Sheila! And turkey Burgers on the side sound great!
I love having fruit I’m my salads!
Now that’s my kind of salad! Yum!
This looks amazing! So going to try this this week! Also, your food photos are gorgeous!
Thank you so much!
I so need a healthy salad like this for dinner. Love the nectarines – I can’t get enough of them at the moment!
What an AMAZING looking salad!
I think we should make it mandatory that all summer salads include stone fruit! You are my loaded salad soul sister!
Nectarines are one of my all-time favorite fruits…glad to see them star in this salad!
Made this salad tonight…it was so so delicious! I’ve just recently discovered your blog, and LOVE it!!
Thank you so much Stacy! Happy you enjoyed it!
This is on gorgeous dish! I can’t wait to dig into this salad soon!
this looks gorgeous!! loving all the levels of texture + flavor, so yum! pinned xo
thanks Christine!