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This Paleo & Whole30 Mandarin Chicken Salad uses delicious toasted coconut chips instead of crispy Chinese noodles, and you’ll love how flavorful it is! 

Whole30 Mandarin Chicken Salad

I’m a HUGE Mandarin chicken salad lover. There’s something so amazing about the combination of chicken, sweet mandarin slices, and crunchy almonds, all coated in a delicious savory dressing.

Paleo & Whole30 Mandarin Chicken Salad Recipe

While the original version adds sweeteners and crispy Chinese noodles to the salad, this Whole30 Mandarin Chicken Salad is only sweetened with mandarins and the noodles are substituted with deliciously toasted Dang Foods Lightly Salted Coconut Chips. It’s such an addicting flavor and texture combo that I recommend you double up on this recipe!

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Why Toasted Coconut Chips?

If you’ve never had toasted coconut chips before, you are in for a real treat! Toasting coconut chips allows their natural sweetness to shine through without any added sugar, and the texture also gets super crunchy in the best way. It’s so much healthier than crispy noodles that would normally be used in Mandarin chicken salad and even more delicious, in my opinion.

Dang Foods Coconut Chips

My go-to toasted coconut chips for years have been by Dang Foods. Their coconut chips are so light and delicious, and I always pack them when I’m traveling because they are so portable and easy to snack on. And most importantly, their ingredients are super clean, and the Lightly Salted Coconut Chips I use in this recipe only contain 2 ingredients: coconut and sea salt. Can’t get much better than that!

Dang Foods is also a Certified B Corporation, meaning they meet rigorous standards of social and environmental performance alongside profit goals. All of their products are Non-GMO Project Certified.

Whole30 Mandarin Chicken Salad

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If you want to try this Paleo & Whole30 Mandarin Chicken Salad recipe and get your hands on Dang Foods coconut chips at a discount, make sure to print out a coupon here before heading to the grocery store. They are available at Walmart, Target, and Sprouts!

I hope you love this salad as much as I did. It’s packed with flavor and the most scrumptious combination of textures that it’ll definitely crowd pleaser!

Whole30 Mandarin Chicken Salad

5 from 1 vote
Servings: 4 servings

Paleo & Whole30 Mandarin Chicken Salad with Coconut Chips

By Jean Choi
This Paleo & Whole30 Mandarin Chicken Salad uses delicious toasted coconut chips instead of crispy Chinese noodles, and you'll love how flavorful it is! 
Prep: 10 minutes
Total: 10 minutes
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Ingredients 

Dressing

Instructions 

  • Drain mandarin oranges but reserve 2 tbsp of the juice for the dressing. 
  • In a large mixing bowl, add mandarin orange, romaine lettuce, chicken, garlic chives, and slivered almonds. 
  • In a separate bowl, whisk together all the ingredients for the dressing. 
  • Pour the dressing over the salad mixture and toss together to coat. 
  • Top with coconut chips and sesame seeds before serving. Serve immediately.

Nutrition

Serving: 1serving, Calories: 403kcal, Carbohydrates: 25g, Protein: 26g, Fat: 21g, Saturated Fat: 6g, Cholesterol: 59mg, Sodium: 554mg, Potassium: 680mg, Fiber: 4g, Sugar: 15g, Vitamin A: 5465IU, Vitamin C: 65.4mg, Calcium: 89mg, Iron: 2.4mg

Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.

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Jean Choi

I’m a food lover and recipe developer living in Southern California. I love to share simple and approachable gluten-free recipes that are healthy but never sacrifice on flavor.

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5 Comments

  1. Lisa Z says:

    5 stars
    We made this last night for day 3 of our September Whole30, and it was so good! We poached and shredded chicken breasts on Sunday and saved two cups of that for the salad. Restaurant quality recipe! It will definitely stay in our rotation. Thank you!

    1. Jean Choi says:

      That’s so great to hear. I’m so happy enjoyed! Good luck with the rest of your Whole30.

  2. Jean Choi says:

    It’s linked in the recipe! I get them from Amazon. 🙂

  3. Gab says:

    That salad seems so tasty. I cant wait to use this recipe!

  4. julia says:

    omg this looks so good with coconut chips ???