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Aunty Three's Saigon chicken and cabbage salad with quail eggs

Aunty Three's Saigon chicken and cabbage salad with quail eggs

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A chicken salad recipe can be many things. Be it chicken that’s barbecued, roasted or poached, and tossed with leaves, grains or noodles, these chicken salads will work wonders for your next meal.

Pick up a rotisserie chicken for lightning-fast meals, throw it together with leftover roast veg or leafy greens, add a crack of black pepper and fresh herbs and then store your easy chicken salad recipe in an airtight container for tomorrow’s lunch. Or poach chicken breasts and toss through a vibrant green soba noodle salad and finish off with lemon juice and miso dressing and cracked black pepper. Either way, our colourful chicken salad recipes pack a punch.

Here are our best chicken salad recipes to turn to.

Photo: William Meppem

Poached chicken and millet salad with peas and mint

Photo: James Moffatt

Green-tea soba with chicken and green miso

Photo: James Moffatt

Lemon chicken with bean and radish salad

Noodle recipes
Photo: William Meppem

Chicken noodle salad with turmeric-lime dressing

Shane Delia's poached chicken salad with harissa, eggplant, spring onion and tahini
Photo: Rob Shaw

Shane Delia’s poached chicken salad with harissa, eggplant, spring onion and tahini

Photo: Ben Dearnley

Chicken, radish and bean salad with tarragon dressing

Photo: William Meppem

Chicken with chilled noodles, cucumber and Sichuan-vinegar dressing

Photo: Mark Roper

Chicken and avocado salad

Chicken salad with asparagus and quinoa
Photo: William Meppem

Chicken salad with asparagus and quinoa

Thai-style chicken larb
Photo: Kristoffer Paulsen

Sunda’s Thai-style chicken larb

Roast chicken salad with peas and almond-lemon dressing in a yellow lunchbox
Photo: Ben Dearnley

Roast chicken salad with peas and almond-lemon dressing

Photo: Ben Dearnley

Grilled chicken and rice noodle salad

Photo: Prue Ruscoe

Yum woon sen (Thai glass noodle salad)

Photo: Mark Roper

Chicken and jellyfish salad

Photo: John Laurie

El Publico’s chicken quinoa salad with recado verde

Miso-poached chicken and ham salad with chilli dressing
Photo: Alicia Taylor

Little Valley’s miso-poached chicken and ham salad with chilli dressing

Photo: Sharyn Cairns

Prawn, chicken and wing bean salad

Photo: Ben Dearnley

Chicken, roast plum, labne and grain salad

Photo: William Meppem

Spiced chicken with carrot, chickpea and green chilli salad

Summer salad recipes
Photo: William Meppem

Grilled chicken, peach and avocado salad

Photo: Ben Dearnley

Grilled chicken with cucumber, carrot and Asian herb salad

Photo: William Meppem

Chicken noodle salad with Sichuan peppercorns

Roast chicken salad with celeriac, radicchio and pink grapefruit
Photo: Ben Dearnley

Roast chicken salad with celeriac, radicchio and pink grapefruit

Roast chicken, walnut and grape salad with blue cheese dressing
Photo: William Meppem

Roast chicken, walnut and grape salad with blue cheese dressing

Photo: Vanessa Levis

Poached chicken, green bean and basil mayonnaise salad

Photo: Sharyn Cairns

Chicken salad with black grapes, walnuts and celery

Photo: Ben Hansen

Chat Thai’s larb gai

Aunty Three's Saigon chicken and cabbage salad with quail eggs
Photo: William Meppem

Aunty Three’s Saigon chicken and cabbage salad with quail eggs

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