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Sesame-Scallion Chicken Salad

4.2

(15)

Photo of sesamescallion chicken salad on a blue plate on a denim tablecloth.
Photo by Laura Murray, Food Styling by Susie Theodorou

This reimagined chicken salad is lighter and leafier than your standard picnic lunch. Tender poached chicken, crisp greens, cukes, and scallions get tossed with a sesame dressing that takes its cues form gomae, a Japanese spinach salad.  

  

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