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Fall Harvest Butternut Squash Chicken Salad with Maple Dressing

September 18, 2013 By Jennifer @ PB and P Design 7 Comments

Hi Everyone,

I was contacted by the Culinary Content Network, which is a subsidiary of The Daily Meal, to see if I would like to enter a chicken recipe contest. All I have to do is make  a healthy chicken recipe for two in under 30 minutes, using up to 12 ingredients.  Sounds easy to me!  Actually it sounds like something I do all of the time.  With those kind of requirements I was in!!!

Fall Harvest Butternut Squash Chicken Salad with Maple Dressing

The contest is through Plated, a company that creates fabulous healthy dishes and sends you the ingredients and recipe to make the dish at home. I think that is a pretty clever idea, especially for someone who likes to cook, but not shop. Everything you need is right there. For the contest, all you have to do is submit your best recipe for a delicious chicken dinner and you could be selected for a spot on the week of October 14th menu. How cool is that, if my dish made it? Crossing fingers! he he With my chicken dish I went with a simple, full of flavor fall themed salad. Plus, it’s healthy, easy to make and quick too!!!
Fall Harvest Butternut Squash Chicken Salad with Maple Dressing

I was inspired to make this salad because of all of the Fall produce and all the seasonal meals that were appearing at several restaurants. I also wanted to create a recipe that screamed my name and this dish has it! It’s full of pan fried chicken, roasted butternut squash, tri-color quinoa, apples, dried cranberries and to bring it all together a balsamic maple syrup dressing. The dressing is to die for! It tastes like a balsamic dressing, then bam! You get hit with maple syrup. It is fabulous on every ingredient in this recipe. I could so drink this dressing! I’ll be making it for several other recipes in the future. Plus it’s super low calories, and no fat!! You have to love that!!
Maple Balsamic Dressing
When I made the quinoa, I went the quick route and microwaved it. It only takes 6 minutes in the microwave. It turns out fluffy, but  it has a slight crunch to it, which is a perfect addition to the salad. I love quinoa and I don’t cook it nearly enough, I think it is because my Husband doesn’t care for it. I don’t get why? It’s amazing and so healthy for you. Next time you need to make quinoa, try microwaving it! It’s so quick and convenient!


Fall Harvest Butternut Squash Chicken Salad with Maple Dressing

Fall Harvest Butternut Squash Chicken Salad with Maple Dressing
 
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Prep time
10 mins
Cook time
20 mins
Total time
30 mins
 
Tender chicken on a bed of mixed greens, topped with roasted butternut squash, quinoa, fresh apple and drizzled with homemade maple flavored dressing.
Serves: 2 large salads
Ingredients
  • 2 cups butternut squash, cut into small bite size pieces
  • Cooking Spray
  • ¼ cup quinoa, rinsed, drained
  • ½ cup water
  • 1 tbsp. olive oil
  • 6 oz chicken, skinless boneless
  • Sprinkle of salt and pepper
  • 4 cups, mixed greens
  • ½ cup apple, diced
  • 2 tbsp. dried cranberries
  • For dressing:
  • ¼ cup balsamic vinegar
  • 2 tbsp. water
  • 1 tsp. dijon mustard
  • 4 tsp. maple syrup
Instructions
  1. Heat oven to 400 degrees.
  2. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Add butternut squash and spray with cooking spray, sprinkle with salt and pepper, if desired. Flip squash, spray with additional cooking spray. Bake in oven for 10 minutes, flip and bake for another 10 minutes or until squash is fork tender; set aside. Note: The small the pieces of squash is the quicker it cooks
  3. Meanwhile, when squash is cooking, heat a frying pan with olive oil, lightly season chicken with salt and pepper. Add chicken to skillet and cook over medium heat for 5 minutes on each side or until chicken is no longer pink. Set chicken aside to cool. Once cool enough to handle, slice chicken in thin slices.
  4. Meanwhile, In a microwave safe dish, add ½ cup water and quinoa, cover and cook for 2 minutes, then remove from heat and stir. Heat again for an additional 4 minutes. Stir and let stand for one minute.
  5. On two plates, divide the mixed greens, chicken, apple, butternut squash, quinoa, dried cranberries and maple dressing
  6. To make dressing: in a bowl add all of the dressing ingredients and whisk together. Pour over top of salad.
Notes
Calories per salad: 306, Fat: 2.9, Cholesterol: 48.7, Sodium: 85, Potassium: 466, Carbs: 49, Fiber: 6, Sugar: 20, Protein: 24

This salad tastes good warm or cold! 🙂
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Serving size: 1 salad
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Fall Harvest Butternut Squash Chicken Salad with Maple Dressing
I just love these kind of salads. They are so filling and easy to make. If you batch cook, next time make some squash, chicken and quinoa, then you could throw this salad together in 5 minutes. Plus have the leftover ingredients to make other fun dishes throughout the week.  The salad makes for a great dinner and an excellent lunch. If anything, try the dressing! You will fall in love with the flavor. I love the maple syrup taste in it!!

Wish me luck in the contest!

Have a great day my Friends!

Toodles,

Jennifer

Fall Harvest Butternut Squash Chicken Salad with Maple Dressing

Filed Under: Poultry and Pork, Salad and Soups Tagged With: butternut squash, chicken, entree, maple syrup, Quinoa, salad

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Comments

  1. Jodie says

    September 18, 2013 at 6:35 AM

    I can’t wait to try this salad! Such an interesting take on dressing too, looking forward to trying it as well. I don’t get to cook quinoa enough either, my partner isn’t into it which I also don’t understand. It’s so good. Thanks for the microwave tip. Good luck in the contest!

    Reply
    • Jennifer @ Peanut Butter and Peppers says

      September 20, 2013 at 9:03 PM

      Thank you Jodie. Microwaving quinoa is so quick and convenient and you can make just a single serving, which is nice. Now that I know that microwaving works, I can make it more often, just for me.

      Reply
  2. lindsay says

    September 18, 2013 at 6:40 AM

    Such a great combination of flavors! And the dressing sounds delicious. I love dressing recipes that call for little to no oil. I’ll be making this.

    Reply
    • Jennifer @ Peanut Butter and Peppers says

      September 20, 2013 at 9:02 PM

      Let me know what you think if you do make it.

      Reply
  3. Susan says

    September 18, 2013 at 2:26 PM

    This recipe definitely sounds like a winner! I am intrigued by your balsamic maple dressing because we recently had a maple-champagne dressing made with champagne vinegar, & it included olive oil. I was able to duplicate it pretty well, but yours sounds so much easier. We usually just put straight balsamic on our salads, but this recipe is definitely worth trying.

    Reply

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