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This Thai Chicken Salad is a copycat recipe of the CPK Thai Crunch Salad. It’s a healthy recipe perfect for meal planning, with satisfying crunch, energy-building protein, and topped with a tangy Thai Peanut Dressing. You’ll love it!

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When it comes to salads, I tend to go for big, beautiful, colorful, crunchy salads. Salads with lots of different veggies, nuts, herbs, spices, and a variety of protein options. Main course salads shouldn’t leave you wanting more; they should be satisfying healthy meals on their own!

This recipe for Thai Chicken Salad is healthy, nutritious, and truly satisfying. It will make your tastebuds happy and help keep you nourished and energized!

Thai Chicken Salad

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This healthy salad recipe makes me SO happy.

It reminds me of the Thai Chicken Crunch Salad at California Pizza Kitchen. It has lots of yummy shredded nutrient-rich veggies like green and red cabbage, as well as carrots, red peppers, and edamame.

If you like the CPK Thai Chicken Crunch Salad, you will love my Thai Chicken Salad! AND, you won’t miss the extra carbs and sugar from the fried wontons and rice sticks in the original CPK salad.

Making this healthy chicken salad

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For convenience, this recipe uses shredded chicken from store-bought whole rotisserie chicken. You can, of course, roast a chicken at home and use that meat for this salad. Try my Lemon Herb Roast Chicken or Air Fryer Whole Chicken.

You can also grill chicken breasts and shred the chicken for this salad.

Before serving, I drizzle a simple Thai Peanut Dressing over the salad for added tang and a touch of sweetness (included in the recipe card below).

If you would like a thicker sauce-type of dressing, try my 10-minute Thai Peanut Sauce recipe.

If you are sticking to a Whole30, Paleo, or Gluten-Free diet: skip the peanut dressing and sauce entirely. Try enjoying the salad with a drizzle of olive oil and lime juice, along with extra cilantro or parsley.

Ways to Enjoy This Thai Chicken Salad

  • Since it serves a crowd, this healthy chicken salad is perfect for potlucks, parties, and picnics.
  • Use any leftover veggies as a slaw and top tacos, burgers, and pulled pork sandwiches with it.
  • Toss the veggies and the chicken with cold Udon noodles if you would like a little carb action for a quick, leftover lunch.
  • Add a little more chicken and make a chicken sandwich out of it.

Storage and Meal Plan Tips

This Thai chicken salad is perfect for meal planning!

Simply separate equal parts of the salad ingredients among 5 mason jars or other airtight containers. Store the dressing in a separate container or jar. Store in the refrigerator for up to 3 to 5 days. When you’re ready to eat, simply toss the ingredients together with the dressing.

Have you ever had the CPK Thai Chicken Crunch Salad, or any other Thai Chicken Salad before and do you like it?  

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Thai Chicken Crunch Salad (CPK Copycat recipe)

5 from 18 votes
Prep Time: 15 minutes
Cook Time: 10 minutes
Total Time: 25 minutes
Servings: 4 people
This Thai Chicken Crunch Salad is quick to put toss together and makes a healthy, satisfying meal!
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Ingredients 

Salad

  • 3 cups green cabbage, thinly sliced
  • 1 cup red cabbage, thinly sliced
  • 1 cup carrots, shredded
  • 1 cup cooked boneless, skinless chicken breasts, either chopped or shredded (save time by buying a cooked rotisserie chicken at the store/deli and using the chicken breasts from that)
  • ½ cup red bell peppers, juliened
  • 3 green onion stalks, finely sliced
  • ¾ cup edamame
  • ½ cup peanuts, lightly crushed
  • Optional: chopped cilantro or parsley for garnish

Thai Peanut Dressing

Instructions 

To make the Thai Peanut Dressing

  • In a medium bowl, whisk together all ingredients until smooth. Set aside.

To make the salad

  • In a large bowl, toss together all ingredients.
  • Garnish with chopped cilantro or parsley
  • Drizzle Thai Peanut Dressing

Nutrition

Calories: 326kcal, Carbohydrates: 23g, Protein: 20g, Fat: 19g, Saturated Fat: 3g, Polyunsaturated Fat: 6g, Monounsaturated Fat: 8g, Trans Fat: 1g, Cholesterol: 24mg, Sodium: 291mg, Potassium: 765mg, Fiber: 7g, Sugar: 12g, Vitamin A: 6330IU, Vitamin C: 62mg, Calcium: 94mg, Iron: 2mg

Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.

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20 Comments

  1. Barbara says:

    5 stars
    Love this salad! Tastes just like CPK’s
    version! Easy to make a big batch and have it for several lunches during the week.

  2. Maricela says:

    5 stars
    This was fast and easy to make. I already had all the ingredients so I loved that! It was sooooo good! Definitely a keeper! Thanks for the recipe!

    1. Marlynn Jayme Schotland says:

      5 stars
      So glad to hear you loved it Marcela!

  3. Allison says:

    5 stars
    Delish! I paired it with Trader Joe’s scallion pancakes

  4. Courtney says:

    5 stars
    Loved this! Delicious ❤️

    1. Marlynn Jayme Schotland says:

      5 stars
      So glad you loved it, Courtney!

  5. Laura says:

    5 stars
    If you don’t have rice wine vinegar you can add lime. I added lime plus the vinegar and added a no sugar sub and this was great.

  6. MW says:

    5 stars
    Delicious salad and perfect Thai peanut butter dressing. Success!

  7. Renee @ The Good Hearted Woman says:

    This looks delicious, Marlynn, and fits perfectly into our eating goals for the year. I literally downloaded and saved the recipe into Paprika before writing this comment!

    1. Marlynn | UrbanBlissLife says:

      Yay! I’m so glad! Thanks so much, Renee!

  8. Widya says:

    I always love the peanut sauce. I just curious how the taste of Thai peanut sauce. We have here in Bali. There is a lot of food dressing with peanut sauce. It looks so yummy. I want to try the recipes. I think I will be going to Thai restaurant in bali soon. I’m so curious with the food!

    xxx
    degusstace.com

    1. Marlynn | UrbanBlissLife says:

      How fun! Thanks, Widya!

  9. Create/Enjoy says:

    Looks so fresh and delicious! I bet it’s way better than the restaurant version! And that dressing sounds amazing, I’ve done PB-based sauces before and they are SO good!

    1. Marlynn | UrbanBlissLife says:

      Thank you so much!

  10. Eva says:

    Oh I LOVE CPK salads! Definitely saving this one for later! I love how fresh it looks.

    1. Marlynn | UrbanBlissLife says:

      Thanks, Eva!

  11. Catherine @ Ten Thousand Hour Mama says:

    I’m so over all-lettuce salads. Many of my salads actually have no lettuce, in fact. That’s why I like this one—it’s full of delicious, hearty ingredients that won’t leave you wanting more.

    1. Marlynn | UrbanBlissLife says:

      I agree. It’s nice to change things up! :) Thank you!

  12. Andrea says:

    Yum Yum! That looks great. I happen to have most of the ingredients already in my fridge so I am thinking I might give it a go tonight! Thanks for sharing!

    1. Marlynn | UrbanBlissLife says:

      Yay! Let me know how you like it!