Indonesian-Style Chicken Salad Recipe (2024)

I substituted 1/4 cup Greek yogurt for the buttermilk & didn't have sprouts on hand. Still delicious!!

You can add lemon juice to regular milk to make a substitute for buttermilk.

I had no lettuce, jalapeno, or sprouts, so i ditched them and added grated carrot, chopped purple cabbage, and crushed red pepper. DELICIOUS!!!

Very good With mango cut in small dices, and add a nice color too. I add extra fish sauce to balance out the sweetness of the fruit.

I made this for a catering gig and the only way the plates could have been cleaner is if they had licked them. Amazing salad. Kudos to Ms. Shulman.

This is a great summer salad and a great lunch to take to work. I roasted chicken and the shredded it. I also made the sauce with Jiffy peanut butter (which is practically a sin, I know!) because the market didn't have natural peanut butter. Both were fine. The salad was good without the dressing and even better with it!

I substituted peanut butter for almond butter and it was delicious!

Instead of buttermilk try a little chicken broth with
a little lemon juice . Could also quarter in 2 hard boiled eggs.

Solution: make this 5 times in a row, because it's that delicious. Buttermilk problem gone.

Made for dinner last night. Only changes were ones dictated by what I didn't have on hand. Namely, substituted low fat plain kefir for the buttermilk, pea sprouts for the mung bean and, shredded Napa cabbage for the romaine. Net result was a salad bursting with flavour and texture. Absolutely perfect on a very hot pre-monsoon season Tucson night. It is now top of the go-to summer salad list. Fantastic. Thank you.

Loved the flavor, but wish I'd doubled the dressing. (I think I used more chicken than called for without making a corresponding change in the amount of dressing.) I wasn't able to find fish sauce at the store, so I left that out. I also used coconut milk rather than buttermilk, which worked really well. Definitely will make this again!

You can make the amount of buttermilk you need by adding 1 tsp of vinegar or lemon juice to whole milk. Just let it stand for 5 minutes or so, and you're good to go. Works like a charm.

Very nice, and easy to adapt to what you have on hand. I used pistachios instead of peanuts. Used chili sauce instead of a hot pepper. Had baby spinach in the fridge instead of romaine, no sprouts. Delicious!

I added about 2 tbs brown sugar to balance the taste. This is a keeper.

I used more cilantro but no mint; red onion instead of scallions;yogurt instead of buttermilk.Still delicious!

Red cabbage instead of sprouts. No buttermilk. Rave reviews.

I added about 2 tablespoons of maple syrup and extra peanut butter to this dressing. I substitute coconut milk for buttermilk. I liked it.

Took others advice and doubled the dressing, needed most of it. Finished dressing the salad with sesame oil and chile crisp. Also added some vermicelli noodles. Really good weeknight dinner with leftovers for lunch.

Amazing, fresh and filling!! Add more mint, spice level was perfect with 3/4 of 1 de-seeded minced serrano pepper. The peanut garnish would have made the dish too salty. Maybe buy unsalted peanuts next time. Shredded rotisserie chicken worked just fine.

Peeps were not lying. Delicious. Noted and will be making for lunches.

Didn’t have buttermilk but did have hummus and it worked! Great salad

I used canned coconut milk instead of buttermilk and ended up with the silkiest dressing! I'll be doing the same in future.

This made a wonderful dinner on the first warm night night of spring. I didn’t have sprouts, so I swapped slivered cucumbers instead. Also, because I am a funk-goblin, I doubled the fish sauce. And, I lucked out and had some Thai basil to add to the rest of the herbs. Altogether a wonderful salad.

Although I'm wild for fish sauce, my very picky partner has a strong aversion to anything fermented. Can anyone recommend a substitute for this glorious ingredient? (Hmm. I wonder if I can sneak it in without him noticing...)Thanks for any suggestions.

This is so flavorful and refreshing! I used shredded, sauteed chicken breasts instead of poached and left the seeds in the chili pepper. I wanted this to have on hand for lunch so I mixed together the salad ingredients with the scallion greens and peanuts (but no romaine) and stored the dressing separately. Mixed together as needed for lunch. Easy and delicious. Will make again!

Delicious! Used a sous vide for the chicken (155 deg). Blended the dressing bc my peanut butter was too thick to whisk in, used the lemon juice milk for buttermilk substitution and added soy sauce and sesame oil instead of fish sauce (fish allergy). So tasty!

Instead of using romaine, I moved everything to a serving bowl and used butter lettuce leaves as wraps.

This is fantastic! Read another commenter’s suggestion to substitute coconut milk for buttermilk and it’s perfect! I can’t imagine using buttermilk now that I’ve tasted this version, actually. And I used the Thai chili lime cashews from Trader Joe’s since I am out of peanuts and I highly recommend these as well.

Excellent. Be careful not to overdo the fish sauce.

I used some leftover Thai peanut sauce mixed with some buttermilk for the dressing.