Crispy Hen Kale Caesar Salad

This crispy hen kale caesar salad isn’t your common caesar salad! It’s made with a base of kale, radicchio, and roasted butternut squash, after which topped with our home made crispy hen breasts all tossed collectively in a deliciously creamy caesar dressing.

We’re right here to vary your minds about caesar salads not being veggie-packed! Our crispy hen kale caesar salad options our tremendous creamy home made dressing, and a base of kale and radicchio tossed with roasted butternut squash.

This hearty, nutrient dense salad is one which I really like serving as a foremost dish. It’s tremendous flavorful and might be partially prepped forward of time — which is one thing I’m all the time searching for in recipes to make on weeknights as a busy mother of two.

What You Want for Crispy Hen Kale Caesar Salad

Kale and radicchio: chopped kale and radicchio makes for a hearty and flavorful base to this salad.

Butternut squash: you’ll dice the squash and roast it earlier than tossing within the salad. It provides a candy and wealthy taste.

Hen breast: we’re utilizing 1 lb. of boneless skinless breast pounded tremendous skinny, after which egg washed and breaded with panko and parmesan earlier than being pan fried to crispy perfection.

Caesar dressing: we used our home made dressing recipe, however be happy to sub 1:1 in your favourite store-bought caesar.

Substitutions + Variations

Use a unique protein: Have enjoyable with this salad recipe and use a unique protein! Attempt one of many following for starters:

Make it vegetarian: Hoping to maintain this vegetarian? Merely take away the hen breast.

Add extra veggies: Why skimp on the veggies when you may really pack them in? Add no matter you might have within the fridge akin to bell pepper, broccoli, cauliflower or carrots.

Can’t discover radicchio? You should utilize endive, crimson cabbage, or extra kale.

Selecting a dressing: We made our home made caesar dressing for this salad, however you can too use a store-bought Caesar dressing in a pinch.

Our Go To Caesar Salad Dressing

Our home made Caesar salad dressing is significantly so good. It’s creamy, tangy, and straightforward to make. What units ours aside? Our traditional Caesar dressing swaps the uncooked egg yolk for mayonnaise and use some Greek yogurt. Right here’s what you want:

Storage

This salad is finest loved immediately when the hen is crispiest! The hen breading will lose its crunch and change into a bit soggy as leftovers. Need to put together this salad forward of time? Observe our make forward directions beneath.

Make Forward Directions

That is such an amazing make-ahead salad recipe! We advocate getting ready every thing in addition to the hen, after which storing the veggies and kale individually from the dressing.

Whenever you’re able to serve, prepare dinner the hen, after which cube it into chunks. Then, toss every thing along with the dressing. Get pleasure from!

Serving Strategies

This crispy hen kale salad is a tremendous foremost dish, and we love serving it with our crispy baked candy potato fries or our air fryer potato chips.

Crispy Hen Kale Caesar Salad

Our crispy hen kale caesar options kale, radicchio, roasted butternut squash, and crispy hen breasts in a home made creamy Caesar dressing.

Prep:20 minutes minutes

Prepare dinner:1 hour hour

Whole:1 hour hour 20 minutes minutes

Fats 36

Carbs 29

Protein 39

Substances

• 4 cups chopped butternut squash lower into 1-inch cubes
• ¼ cup olive oil separated
• 2 teaspoons sea salt separated
• 1 teaspoon floor black pepper separated
• 1 lb. boneless skinless hen breast
• ½ cup panko bread crumbs
• ½ cup grated parmesan cheese
• 2 giant eggs whisked
• 4 cups chopped kale deboned
• 1 small head radicchio rinsed and chopped
• ½ cup shaved parmesan cheese
• ¼ cup Caesar dressing we used this home made dressing recipe

Directions 

• Preheat the oven to 400ºF and unfold the butternut squash out on a baking sheet. Toss the butternut squash with 1.5 tablespoons of olive oil. Season with 1 teaspoon of salt and ½ teaspoon of floor black pepper. Toss and bake for 25-Half-hour or till fork tender. Take away from the oven and let cool.

• Whereas the squash is roasting, put together the hen. Place the hen breasts onto a reducing board and canopy with plastic wrap. Pound the hen with a meat tenderizer till the hen is about ½-inch thick.

• Add the panko and grated parmesan to a big bowl and blend and add the eggs to a different bowl.

• Dredge every hen breast via the egg combination. Permit any extra egg wash to drop from the hen breast. Then, dredge the hen via the panko combination till coated. Then repeat, till each hen breasts have been double-dredged.

• Warmth 2 tablespoons of olive oil in a big skillet over medium/excessive warmth. When the olive oil is aromatic, add the hen breasts to the pan and prepare dinner for 2-3 minutes on both sides till golden brown and the inner temperature of 165ºF. Take away from the warmth and let it relaxation for five minutes.

• Whereas the hen rests, add the kale and ½ tablespoon of olive oil to a big salad bowl and therapeutic massage till the kale has softened, about 1-2 minutes.

• Fastidiously lower the hen into bite-sized items and add it to the bowl with the kale. Add the butternut squash, radicchio, and shaved parmesan cheese. Toss.

• Lastly, add the caesar dressing to the salad and toss till all of the components are coated.

Suggestions & Notes

• The butternut squash might be changed with candy potatoes.
• If you’re unable to seek out radicchio, you need to use endive, crimson cabbage, or extra kale.
• We made a home made dressing, however you can too use a store-bought Caesar dressing.

Vitamin info

Energy: 582kcal Carbohydrates: 29g Protein: 39g Fats: 36g Fiber: 6g Sugar: 5g