Honey Apple Salad with Grapes & Roasted Chicken
Honey plus apples plus fresh greens already amounts to a delectable salad. Now, try adding roasted red grapes and juicy roasted chicken to the dish, and it’s suddenly even healthier, even sweeter, even closer to being a meal on its own. Start with our Honey Apple Salad Kit, which comes packed with baby green lettuces, pieces of apple, a smooth honey balsamic vinaigrette, crumbled feta cheese, and sea salt croissant croutons. Take it to the next level with a few added toppings, and we’re calling this one indulgent.
- Active Time:
- 20 minutes
- Total TIME:
- 40 minutes
- SERVINGS:
- 4
Ingredients
- 1 Taylor Farms Honey Apple Salad Kit
- 2 cups seedless red grapes
- 2 tsp olive oil
- 2 boneless, skinless chicken breasts (or thighs), diced into 1-inch pieces
- 1 Tbsp olive oil
- 1 tsp kosher salt
- ½ tsp freshly ground black pepper
- ½ tsp smoked paprika
Directions
- Roast the grapes
- Preheat oven to 400°F.
- Toss grapes with 2 tsp olive oil and spread on a parchment-lined baking sheet.
- Roast for 12–15 minutes, until skins blister and juices start to release.
- Set aside to cool slightly.
- Roast the chicken
- On a separate baking sheet, toss diced chicken with 1 tbsp olive oil, salt, pepper, and smoked paprika.
- Roast for 18–20 minutes, flipping halfway through, until cooked through (internal temp 165°F).
- Set aside to cool slightly.
- Assemble the salad
- Empty the Honey Apple Salad Kit greens into a large bowl.
- Add the included toppings and dressing, tossing to coat.
- Gently fold in roasted chicken and roasted grapes.
- Serve
- Plate immediately while chicken and grapes are still slightly warm.
- For a finishing touch, drizzle with a little extra honey or a squeeze of fresh lemon juice.
Roasted Grapes? What now?
Roasting grapes is one of those little kitchen tricks that sounds odd at first, but once you try it, you’ll wonder why you didn’t do it sooner.
Why it’s a good idea:
- Flavor transformation: Grapes go from sweet and crisp to deeply jammy, tangy, and caramelized. It’s like nature’s candy, but with a grown-up twist.
- Versatility: Roasted grapes elevate cheese boards, swirl beautifully into yogurt or oatmeal, top roasted meats (especially chicken, pork, or lamb), and even shine as a dessert over ice cream.
- Simplicity: No peeling, no chopping. Just toss, roast, and enjoy.
- Unexpected wow factor: They look elegant, taste luxurious, and make people think you’ve pulled off some restaurant-level magic when in reality it’s a 3-ingredient recipe.
Basically, roasting grapes takes something ordinary and turns it into something memorable—like flipping the “secret upgrade” switch on your kitchen.
Apple Salads: Two of our Favorite Things
Is the apple the perfect food? (After salad greens, that is. Wink Wink.) Crunchy yet soft, sweet and juicy, the fan-favorite fruit seems to go with just about everything. Which is why we’ve added apples to many a salad recipes. We suggest, after mastering this one, that you try them all.
- Apple and Sweet Potato Harvest Salad adds sweet chunks of apple to our Maple Bourbon Bacon Chopped Salad Kit.
- Next, give our Apple Cranberry Walnut Butter Leaf Salad recipe a go: add both red and green apple slices into the soft, nutty flavor of butter lettuce.
- Apples are tasty in a warm salad, too. Try the Balsamic Brussels & Apple Carrot Crunch recipe, as the weather continues to chill.
In a rush and don’t have time to chop up and doctor up a salad? That’s what we’re here for. When craving an apple salad in a pinch, grab our Apple & Walnut Salad with Chicken or our Apple Feta Salad Kit. And of course, the Honey Apple Salad Kit is perfect on its own.
We love lots of fruits in salads (from mandarins to cranberries), but considering all the above recipes, these might just be the apple of our eye—er, bag.
