Chinese Taco Salad

 

I'm sure that are your kids shun sweets and fats and beg for fruits and veggies, but it's a struggle around here to get the kiddos to eat any for dinner that doesn't come with a toy. My kids will eat taco salad, and so I decided to try the same idea, but with Asian inspired ingredients.

Ingredients:
Meat sauce:
1 lb. ground turkey
1 chopped onion
2 Tb. Soy sauce


Salad:
Cabbage
Carrots
Peppers
Peas
Chow Mein Noodles
Mandarin Oranges
You can really add anything you like: water chestnuts, mushrooms, pineapple, beans, sugar snap peas, onions, rice, quinoa, etc.


Dressing:
1/4 cup soy sauce
1/4 cup Splenda
1 Tb rice wine vinegar
1 Tb sesame oil
1/4 tsp ginger (optional)

Serve w/ chopsticks-because that makes it more fun.

My kids enthusiastically chowed down and even went for seconds and thirds.  It gained a very high place on the "make again" list.  


We tried to think of a fun name for it. Maybe "Chaco Salad"? Maybe Ninja Taco Salad?


UPDATE: I sent the leftover w/ the hubby for lunch and he actually texted me to say "I'm surprisingly a huge fan of the Turkey Chaco salad." In 16 years, it's the first lunch that has been text worthy. 




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