Wendy’s Copycat Mediterranean Power Salad

wendy's mediterranean chicken salad nutrition

Wendy’s has a long-established pattern of breaking my heart. They’ll introduce something new, and me being the perfect-always-cook-at-home-from-scratch food blogger that I am (ha!), I will discover it and fall in love with it, only to have it yanked away from me a few painful months later. Those Greek and Caesar pitas from when I was in high school. The Summer Berry Salad (yes, I do know they still have it, but it’s not the same as the one they had 5 years ago. Please stop messing with delightful things.) The Pretzel Burger (I don’t normally or frequently eat fast food burgers, but I liked knowing this was there. Until it wasn’t.) And possibly the most painful of all, the Southwest Taco Salad Let’s all take a minute for the Wendy’s Southwest Taco Salad.

Có thể bạn quan tâm

So this summer, they’ve introduced a salad that I really like (although, if I’m being honest, there are things about it that I don’t like…more on that in a minute), but I am under no delusion that it will be here much past Labor Day. I’m telling you: trust issues. So I figured I could make my own version (my bank account thanks me). And, since it’s something I could eat every day and be happy, it’s something I could also make in salad jars and keep handy in the fridge. I bring you the Wendy’s Copycat Mediterranean Power Salad.

Bạn đang xem: Wendy’s Copycat Mediterranean Power Salad

This is really, super easy. And there’s not a reason in the world you couldn’t just make this in a bowl instead of in jars. In addition to 4-ish cups of the greens of your choice (I like a crunchy romaine blend, but you could mix whatever you like in there), you’ll need some drained and rinsed Great Northern Beans and Garbanzo beans, 2-3 slices of red onion, 3 ounces of chopped, cooked chicken breast, 2 tablespoons of feta, 2 tablespoons of quinoa (I actually used Seeds of Change Quinoa and Brown Rice), and a small handful of tomatoes. And two tablespoons of garlic or roasted red pepper hummus (just your favorite store brand, although we do have a recipe for roasted red pepper hummus that’s quite tasty.)

Remember when I said there were a few things I didn’t love about the Wendy’s salad? I don’t love the hummus they use, and they also have some kind of jarred chopped roasted red pepper salad (it tastes kind of pickled.) I don’t like that, either. But those are easy fixes-swap out the pepper stuff for fresh tomatoes (or chopped fresh colored peppers) and use a hummus I like better. Bam.

So if you’re making these in jars, grab a wide-mouth quart-sized jar and place the chopped chicken in the bottom. then layer the onions, quinoa, tomatoes (in the form of a smiley face, please! It’s the only way.), and lettuce.

I didn’t put the hummus or dressing in there because I didn’t want to risk things getting funky in my jars, so I grabbed a package of those portion cups with lids from the paper plate area of the grocery store and put the hummus in one…

Xem thêm : How much does thyroid surgery cost with insurance?

and two tablespoons of light balsamic dressing in the other (I was shooting for about 4 grams of fat/60 calories per 2 tablespoons.) You could absolutely make your own dressing if you’d like. Right now, I can barely keep my kids in clean clothes, so bottled dressing it is.