Simple Chicken Spring Roll Salad Bowls with extra peanut dressing. This loaded spring vegetable-filled salad bowl is a mix of greens, carrots, cucumbers, rice noodles, and chicken. Add some heat with a sweet and savoury, spicy peanut dressing. Essentially, it’s a spring roll but deconstructed! So much easier.

This hot summer weather has been inspiring a lot of bowl-style recipes lately, so today I opted for a spring roll salad. It’s every element of spring rolls packed into a bowl and served with extra yummy dressing.

The details…

What helps make this recipe so quick and easy is using pre-cooked, shredded chicken. If you don’t have shredded chicken on hand, not a big deal. I would usually air fry a couple of chicken breasts seasoned with soy sauce, sesame oil and garlic and then shred.

For the noodles, I find vermicelli rice noodles are the best. Be careful not to overcook otherwise they will go mushy, so only leave them in boiling water for 1 minute or less. A top tip to keep them from sticking together: as soon as you remove the noodles from the boiling water, strain them and rinse with cold water while swishing them around with your hand. Drizzle over a small amount of sesame oil and gently mix it through with your fingers. Set aside while you make the rest of the salad.

All the finely chopped veggies get tossed together in a large bowl with fresh diced mango and peanut dressing.

For the dressing, combine peanut butter, fish sauce, hoisin sauce, brown sugar, sesame oil, rice wine vinegar, chilli paste, garlic and lime. So. Much. Flavour! The dressing is spicy, tangy, and very peanutty – all of the good things. Honestly, it’s addicting and can be used not just in this recipe but in many others as well.

The assembly…

There’s nothing fancy here. The salad goes into bowls, then I add the noodles and chicken and finish with coriander, chopped peanuts and lots of extra dressing. I like to add some diced red chilli for a bit of extra heat.

The added bonus is that everything in this salad bowl keeps really well. Save the leftovers for meal prep or lunch the following day.

Here are some more of my favourite fresh summer salads:

If you like the look of these Chicken Spring Roll Salad Bowls with Peanut Sauce be sure to give them a go and let me know what you think in the comments. I love hearing from you guys! And don’t forget if you do make it, be sure to post on Instagram and tag me!