Applebee’s Oriental Chicken Salad recipe

Applebee’s 60-item menu is revised twice a year. That means about 40 percent of the entire menu changes on a regular basis. The other 60 percentare items that are found on menus in all of the Applebee’s restaurants, and seldom ever change.

One item that has been on the menu for some time now is this Oriental Chicken salad, which is considered one of the restaurant’s signature items. The recipe makes one dinner-size salad and can be easily doubled or quadrupled for additional servings.

This recipe comes from the third book, “Top Secret Restaurant Recipes” but the dressing has been improved to more closely match the current dressing served at the restaurant.

Oriental Dressing
3 tablespoons honey
1 1/2 tablespoons rice winevinegar
1/4 cup mayonnaise
1 teaspoon Grey Poupon Dijon mustard
1/8 teaspoon sesame oil

Salad
1 egg
1/2 cup milk
1/2 cup flour
1/2 cup corn flake crumbs
1 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon pepper
1 boneless, skinless chicken breast half
2-4 cups vegetable oil (for frying)
3 cups chopped romaine lettuce
1 cup red cabbage
1 cup Napa cabbage
1/2 carrot, julienned or shredded
1 green onion, chopped
1 tablespoon sliced almonds
1/3 cup chow mein noodles

1. Preheat oil in deep fryer or deep pan over medium heat.
You want the temperature of the oil to be around 350 degrees.

2. Blend together all ingredients for dressing in a small
bowl with an electric mixer. Put dressing in refrigerator
to chill while you prepare the salad.

3. In a small, shallow bowl beat egg, add milk, and mix well.

4. In another bowl, combine flour with corn flake crumbs, salt
and pepper.

5. Cut chicken breast into 4 or 5 long strips. Dip each strip
of chicken first into egg mixture then into the flour mixture,
coating each piece completely.

6. Fry each chicken finger for 5 minutes or until coating has
darkened to brown.

7. Prepare salad by tossing the chopped romaine with the chopped
red cabbage, Napa cabbage, and carrots.

8. Sprinkle sliced green onion on top of the lettuce.

9. Sprinkle almonds over the salad, then the chow mein noodles.

10. Cut the chicken into small bite-size chunks. Place the
chicken onto the salad forming a pile in the middle. Serve
with salad dressing on the side.

Makes 1 dinner-size salad.