The Fuji apple salad with chicken is a copycat of the popular Panera Bread dinner salad recipe with a zippy Green Apple vinaigrette.
Fuji Apple Salad with Chicken
By Sue Lau | Palatable Pastime
This post is sponsored on behalf of #appleweek. Our generous sponsors Envy Apples, Bob’s Red Mill, Republic of Tea, Flahavan’s Irish Oats, Nairn’s, Taylor & Colledge, Zyliss, Chocoley, and Torani have provided us with products for recipe creation and a giveaway for our readers. As always, all opinions are my own.
For my third recipe to include in #AppleWeek, I have put together a tasty and healthy dinner salad which is actually a clone of the popular Fuji apple salad with chicken served at the Panera Bread Company (St. Louis Bread Company) and utilizes Torani’s green apple puremade syrup to get the exact flavor it needs.
It might be just a sheer stroke of luck to receive Torani’s product in the mail to use for #AppleWeek right at the very time it needed to be there. You see, I love Torani and use their stuff all the time. I actually have a coffee bar with tons of bottles of those syrups lined up for any occasion. Then for Apple Week, something with the sign-ups was mangled and I somehow had missed the signups as I thought I was in for that. But Camilla Mann came to my rescue and arranged with them to have the product sent anyway.
But here’s the thing. On the very day my product arrived (Green Apple Puremade syrup and Caramel syrups) I had tasted it- you know. Who can resist? But then had gone out to eat lunch the next day at Panera. I still had that yum apple flavor on my mind when I ordered, and chose their apple salad because Torani had me craving apple.
And at the first bite, I loved their salad dressing (not to mention those nice crisp apple chips) and I thought- “Danged if it doesn’t taste like their vinaigrette has that Torani syrup in it?” and laughed out loud. So good and so sure was I, that when I left the restaurant I went straight to the grocer and got my rotisserie chicken and accoutrements for the salad, including apple chips. And then had the salad again for dinner- with a couple of very small exceptions.
Personalizing My Plate
I switched out the Gorgonzola they used for gouda cheese instead, because you know. Apple and gouda is very good-a! And I felt that sliced red grapes would be superior to their choice of cherry tomatoes. And it was.
But trust me on the dressing. The Torani syrup has that kick of green apple and sweetness that you won’t be getting without. Well you “could” if you mucked about with apple juice and sweetener, but the point is that you don’t have to.
Just Sheer Luck
And this might not be posted today if there hadn’t been that mix-up and the taste of this syrup fresh on my mind. Who knows? The universe might unravel with Doc Brown from Back to the Future screaming about some paradox. And Marty McFly might not ever be born.
So enjoy and know all is right in the world. I do love my dinner salads, especially with a rotisserie chicky- they make life easy after a hard day of…what was I doing to wear me out? *laughs* Shopping usually does it. Being hit in the shin with a shopping cart and dodging unruly children horsing around–all the usual stuff. I love kids but dang. They make grocery shopping rough- whether they are someone else’s kids or if you are unfortunate enough to have them in tow.
Today’s Apple Week Recipes
- Apple Celeriac Salad by Caroline’s Cooking
- Apple Coffee Cake Muffins by Blogghetti
- Apple Cream Puffs by Jolene’s Recipe Journal
- Apple Crisp in a Mug by An Affair from the Heart
- Apple Muffins by Karen’s Kitchen Stories
- Apple Oatmeal Cookies by A Day in the Life on the Farm
- Apple Oatmeal Cutout Cookies by The Monday Box
- Applesauce Cake Tassies by Cindy’s Recipes and Writings
- Chocolate Covered Apple Slices by Books n’ Cooks
- Apple Gouda Crostini by Snacks and Sips
- Country Fried Apples by Tip Garden
- Creamy Caramel Apple Icebox Cake by Cooking With Carlee
- Crispy Hot Cider Tea-Brined Chicken Thighs by Culinary Adventures with Camilla
- Crunchy Dried Cherry Applesauce Cake Bars by Faith, Hope, Love, & Luck Survive Despite a Whiskered Accomplice
- Fuji Apple Salad with Chicken by Palatable Pastime
- Hot Apple Cider Tea Bread by Our Good Life
- Moroccan Apple and Sweet Potato Beef Stew by Savory Moments
- Spiced Applesauce Cookies by Who Needs A Cape?
- Vegan Apple Cream Cheese Puff Pastry Braid by The Baking Fairy
Fuji Apple Salad with Chicken
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Fuji Apple Salad with Chicken
Ingredients
Salad Ingredients:
- Rotisserie chicken
- organic baby lettuces
- Babybel mini baby gouda cheese sliced
- sliced red onion
- halved red seedless grapes
- toasted candied pecans
- crisp apple chips Bare Fuji and Reds
- green apple vinaigrette below
Vinaigrette ingredients:
- 3/4 cup mayonnaise
- 1/2 cup Torani Puremade Green Apple Syrup
- 1/4 cup Bragg's apple cider vinegar
- 1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
Instructions
- Whisk together vinaigrette and serve over salad.
- Store remaining vinaigrette in refrigerator until needed (makes about 1-3/4 cups)
Notes
Fuji Apple Salad with Chicken
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Love this salad and now I can make it at home with your dressing!
Oh I totally LOVE this idea for making dressing using the green apple syrup! I bet it’s delicious! This salad just is perfect for fall.
This is my kind of salad…lots of yummy goodies in it!!!
It’s better than a restaurant salad! I”ll be right over for one!! yummo!
Adding the syrup to the dressing is genius! I am going to have to try this before the kiddos use all my green apple syrup. Little Dude and the neighbor kid have been enjoying mixing drinks with it.
I’m loving the red onion and the apple together. I cannot wait to try this. I might just make it for me!
I am absolutely trying that dressing. It sounds wonderful
I love salads any time of year. Crunchy apples in salad are the best!
Sue! I love that you went savory with this. Thanks for the inspiration to put the syrup in the vinaigrette. Why didn’t I think of that? I will try it soon.
This salad looks so scrumptious! What a genius idea to use the green apple syrup to add flavor to the dressing!