mixed salad w/ hoisin vinaigrette & crisp panko chicken

well this was VERY easy and really yummy for a lighter sunday night dinner.

mixed salad w/ hoisin vinaigrette & crisp panko chicken

total time to put this together was 25 minutes and that included roasting the asparagus, cooking the chicken & washing the spinach (sub for the mixed greens). i had a few minutes this afternoon, so i put the vinaigrette items in a jar & shook it for a few minutes. i let it meld in the fridge for the afternoon and it was good to go this evening. this evening, i had 2 chicken breasts that i washed, dried, cut up into 1" chunks & dropped into the panko breadcrumb mixture. the recipe didn't call for anything more then some scallions & red tomatoes, but i added some roasted asparagus to get some more veggies in and to use them up.

we really enjoyed this salad, we do love panko anything & hoisin is just a wonderful flavor. i would make this salad again, but add even more veggies to make it really a more robust veggie salad w/ the panko chicken a smaller factor.

sweetie did comment that it was tasty, but odd that she didn't have the flavor or texture of a cheese or a nut...as so many of our salads have these fixings. i felt it was a clean taste and enjoyed the change.

i did also start the cilantro pesto sandwich filling...the sauteed baby bellas & spinach. i am also going to make the pesto tonight so that i can just put the fixings together in the morning and send sweetie on her merry little way to work. a homemade meal, a piece of fruit & a yogurt is pretty much our daily work day eats.

yum, yum.



**i do have a picture, but uploading it has been an issue...so hopefully it will be here soon.