Today we’re sharing our Panera-inspired Asian Sesame Chicken Salad. It’s one of our favorite salads with great flavor and the perfect crunch. We’ll go over the ingredients and cover all the prep from the chicken to the sesame vinaigrette. Why oh why did Panera remove their Asian sesame chicken salad from their menu?  It was so good. It disappeared along with the Sierra Turkey sandwich we loved.  We would order for our kids who are fans of the chicken that comes on top and the crispy wontons.  And they would even try bites of lettuce dipped in the dressing. Hey, that’s a big deal for our kids. We’re trying to slowly move them towards being good salad eaters. But this Panera salad… …this salad they would actually try! So we were pretty bummed when they took it off their menu. So, only on thing to do… Make our own!  We’ve already done it with their peach blueberry almond milk smoothie and their toffee nut cookie. We used Trader Joe’s soyaki marinade for the chicken, but your favorite soy sauce/teriyaki based asian chicken marinade would work just as well–we may have to try out this soy sesame grilled chicken marinade.  We have […]

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