Gluten Free Chinese Chicken Cabbage Salad

     This is one of those incredible summer salads that comes from the Heritage Cookbook I got from a school I worked at.  I have made it several times without chicken so I could use it as a side salad.   A few days ago I made it to go along with some teriyaki chicken. 

    You will notice that this salad doesn't have any ramen noodles or ramen seasoning like the original version (sigh).  I was glad when my friend Debbie (who also has celiac disease) gave me her recipe for this dressing because that's a tough dressing to duplicate.  With this salad, the dressing makes the salad--and she is an amazing cook, and her dressing has the same zip the original has. 

 Gluten Free Chinese Chicken Cabbage Salad 

1.  Prepare chicken:  Steam 2 chicken breasts, and when it's cool, cut into small cubes.

2.  Prepare veggies: 
(1)  Thinly slice 1 head of green cabbage. 
(2)  Slice up 4 green onions. 

3.  Put in a salad bowl:
(1)  The sliced cabbage and  green onions.
(2)  Then stir in the cubed chicken.
(3)  Finally add  4 T sesame seeds, and 4 T diced almonds and toss.
(4)  Refrigerate until ready to serve.
(5)  Just before you're ready to eat, pour on the dressing and toss until it's completely coated with the dressing.

4.  Prepare Debbie’s G.F. Asian Dressing:  Mix in a salad dressing container  ½ cup of olive oil, ½ cup rice wine vinegar, ½ cup sugar, 1 tsp. salt, 2-3 cloves of minced garlic, 1/2 tsp. pepper and 1 T sesame oil.  Combine the ingredients and mix well.

List of Other Salads on this Blog:

Greens/cabbage:
Make it Yourself Thai Peanut Dressing for Mandarin Salad  (My friend Judi's recipe)
KFC Copycat Cole Slaw   (A friend shared this with me)
Belizean Coleslaw    (From Internet search)
Antioxidant Rich Kale Super Salad  (A copycat from a deli, dressing from Syre School Cookbook)

Main Dish Salads
Gluten Free Chinese Chicken Cabbage Salad   (From my Heritage School Cookbook)
Baja Salad with Black Beans & Quinoa  (A remake from something I ate at a restaurant)

Mexican Grilled Salmon & Mango Salad   (From a Betty Crocker summer cookbook)
Jackson Square Shrimp Salad   (From my Syre School cookbook)

Pasta & Quinoa:
Tasty Gluten Free Pasta Salad  (Something I picked up over 20 years ago!)
Vietnamese Vermicelli Salad Bowls   (From an Internet search)
Michelle's Greek Quinoa Salad   (My foodie daughter's own delicious creation!) Another Great Salad with Quinoa - Janah's  Original Quinoa, Cranberry & Feta Salad  (a recipe my daughter 
came up with)
Red Quinoa, Black Bean, & Corn Salad  (A yummy recipe on the Trader Joe's bag of red quinoa)

Vegetable:
Jeremy D's Sensational Greek Salad   (My son-in-law's recipe)

Grandma's Perfect Potato Salad   (Family recipe)
Rose's Refreshing Cucumber Salad   (From a Chinese friend)
A Great BBQ side Salad - Curried Pea Salad  (From my church cookbook, Come & Dine)

Dot's Easy Bean Salad  (Recipe from an  83 yr old friend of my father's)

Fruit:
Grandma Marilyn's Frozen Fruit Salad  (My mother-in-law's recipe)