Chinese Chicken Salad

Chinese chicken salad is a salad including chopped chicken and Chinese culinary ingredients that is common in parts of the United States. Though many variations exist, common features of Chinese chicken salads include lettuce, cabbage, chicken, deep-fried wonton skins or rice vermicelli and nuts . A basic vinaigrette for the salad includes ingredients like vegetable oil, sesame oil, rice vinegar . Optional seasonings include dry hot mustard, sesame seeds, coriander and raw ginger or pickled ginger. In restaurants, Chinese chicken salad may be more embellished and offered as an American-style entree salad, similar to Caesar, Chef, and Cobb salads.