Take-out Tuesday, Duke’s Parmesan Chicken Salad with Strawberries & Balsamic
This elegant summer salad is simple-easy to throw together
on a busy weeknight
Strawberries paired with fresh greens and a luscious baked chicken,
your tastebuds are in for a treat!
The chicken is coated with Duke’s Mayo and Parmesan
You can prep the tenders right in the pan,
spread, sprinkle, turn over, repeat
Pop them in the oven for 30-45 minutes
{time depends on the size of the chicken}
and go have a glass of wine and relax
If you use pre-washed greens, the salad is a snap to prepare
As the chicken bakes, the mayonnaise breaks down,
basting the tenders
Use a spoon to scoop up the pan juices
and baste tops of chicken about half way through baking time
and add a few more sprinkles of cheese
Place salad greens on plate or in a pasta bowl
Add chopped pecans, sliced strawberries,
and add optional crisp bacon pieces
and crumbled bleu cheese if desired
Top salad with 2-3 chicken tenders
Drizzle salad with Strawberry Balsamic Vinaigrette
I used Stonewall Kitchen’s Strawberry Balsamic Vinaigrette or you can make dressing from these recipes:
Whole Foods Strawberry Balsamic Vinaigrette
Food.com Strawberry Balsamic Vinaigrette
Rachael Ray’s Strawberry Balsamic Vinaigrette
Duke’s Parmesan Chicken Strawberry Balsamic Salad
Ingredients
Salad
- Ingredients per person
- 4 cups mixed salad greens of choice romaine, arugula, spinach, kale, etc.
- 2-3 large strawberries trimmed and sliced
- 1/4 cup chopped pecans
- 1-2 slices bacon optional
- 1 oz. crumbled bleu cheese optional
- 2-3 Duke’s Parmesan Chicken Tenders
- Strawberry Balsamic Dressing {I used Stonewall Kitchen}
Duke's Parmesan Chicken Tenders
- chicken tenders
- 2 Tablespoons Duke’s Mayonnaise per tender
- 1/2 oz. shredded Parmesan cheese per tender
- Garlic salt to taste
Instructions
- Place tenders in a greased baking dish. Spread top side with mayo, sprinkle with cheese and garlic salt. Turn over and repeat. Bake at 375 for 30-45 minutes until golden and cooked through.
Easier and Tastier than take-out!
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Yum! Pinned, thank you. I love your easy, no fuss recipes.
Aren’t you the sweetest! My cooking keeps getting lazier and lazier, I don’t have the patience or energy to spend much time in the kitchen lately 😂
Jenna, this is a wonderful and easy summertime dinner. It also looks delicious with fresh strawberries 🍓🍓🍓
We are finally getting rain this morning and I am so thankful. Happy Tuesday!
Thank you Pam, I love salad for dinner! Glad you got some rain, we got a good soaking yesterday afternoon, and I just got a heat advisory on my phone for heat index feeling like 105 today 😅, I need to get back to the coast, it’s too hot up here for me!
This looks very succulent!
Thanks Dorothy!
Doesn’t this look delish! A perfect summertime dinner for us! Thanks for the inspiration dear one!
Happy Tuesday!
You’re so welcome!
Jenna, this looks like a perfect meal for these extremely hot summer days. I am definitely going to put this in my menu plan for this week. It is going to be 107 today. I’ve been trying to come up with every possible idea for a salad that I can. It’s just too hot to eat anything warm! This will work great! Thanks for sharing. Happy Tuesday!
Yikes, 107 is rough! Thanks Shannon, I hope you enjoy the salad, it’s one of my go to favorites!
One word for this one — YUM!
Thanks Jeanie, it’s one of my favorite summer suppers!
This is so colorful and mouth watering!!
Thank you Patti!
Perfect summer meal!
Yes, it really is, I hope you’re keeping cool Linda!
Fantabulous salad recipe, perfect for now or whenever!
Thank you, I love salad for dinner, especially in the summer 🥗
I’ve never used mayo in baking Jenna, this sounds like a good recipe to try:@) Every once in a while the dollar stores here carry Duke’s mayo too.
Thanks Lynn, it really keeps the chicken moist and tender!
I really like this recipe and I’ve pinned it. I love salads for dinner, so easy and light for these hot summer days……..
Thank you Emily, I hope you enjoy!
You have just saved me some head scratching! I have a couple of chicken breasts out for dinner, but I wasn’t sure how I wanted to prepare them in this 100 degree heat. I can do this. It will be good to have something relatively light and easy!
Thanks Alycia, I hope you love it as much as I do!
Yummy. I haven’t heard of Duke’s mayo. I recently came across a recipe using mayo on pounded chicken breasts. Paul love it. The chicken was so tender and moist. Anything balsamic I love.
Duke’s is THE mayonnaise in the South, just use a similar good quality mayo like Hellman’s…yes, it does make baked chicken so tender and moist!
Your chicken looks so easy and tasty too Jenna! We love Duke’s and look forward to BLTs with lots of mayo when heirloom tomatoes come in. ♥
I agree, I could live on BLTs!
This sounds heavenly for this salad loving girl, Jenna! Thanks for the delicious recipe. 🍓❤️🍓
Thank you Kitty, the baked chicken is so easy and so good!
Oh my! This looks so tasty! I will have to try Duke’s sometime and compare to my all-time favorite Hellman’s. Will be going this week for some groceries and will look for it. Pinning this! P.s. This reminded me of your picnic chicken which I love and will need to make it soon also! 😁
hi Cyndi, yes the chicken is similar to Picnic Chicken. Hellman’s is a great mayonnaise too, very similar to Duke’s, so you can definitely use that. I hope you enjoy, I love this salad 🙂