Wendy's Mandarin Chicken Salad with Sesame Dressing

from Todd Wilbur

Of all the salads on Wendy's "Garden Sensations" menu, this is the one
that draws all the cloning requests. It's the sesame dressing that
everyone's nuts about. The clone below gives you a nice 1 1/2 cups of
the tasty stuff so it'll fit perfectly into a standard dressing cruet.
Once you've got your dressing made, building the rest of the mandarin
chicken salad is a breeze.

Sesame Dressing

1/2 cup corn syrup
3 Tbsp white distilled vinegar
2 Tbsp pineapple juice
4 tsp. granulated sugar
1 Tbsp light brown sugar
1 Tbsp rice wine vinegar
1 Tbsp soy sauce
1 tsp. sesame oil
1/4 tsp. ground mustard
1/4 tsp. ground ginger
1/8 tsp. salt
1/8 tsp. paprika
dash garlic powder
dash ground black pepper
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1/2 tsp. sesame seeds



Mandarin Chicken Salad

4 chicken breast fillets
1 large head iceberg lettuce, chopped
4 cup red leaf lettuce, chopped
1 1/3 cup canned mandarin orange wedges
1 cup rice noodles
1C. roasted sliced almonds

Prepare dressing by combining all dressing ingredients except vegetable
oil and sesame seeds in a blender on high speed. Slowly add oil to
mixture (to create an emulsion). Add sesame seeds and blend for just a
couple seconds.
Pour dressing into a covered container (such as a dressing cruet) and
chill until needed.
Rub each chicken breast fillet with oil, then lightly salt and pepper
each piece. Grill on medium/high heat until done. Chill chicken breasts
in refrigerator until cold.

When chicken is cold, build each salad by first arranging about 4 cups
of iceberg lettuce in the bottom of a large salad bowl or on a plate.
Next, arrange a cup of red leaf lettuce on the iceberg lettuce.
Dice each chicken breast into bite-size pieces and sprinkle the pieces
from each one over each salad. Arrange about 1/3 cup of mandarin orange
wedges on each salad. Next, sprinkle about 1/4 cup of rice noodles and
1/4 cup of roasted sliced almonds on top of each salad. Add desired
amount of sesame dressing and serve.
Makes 4 large salads.

Source: http://huntsville.about.com/od/main/...rinchicken.htm



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