Kona Salad Recipes

KONA CHICKEN SALAD NO COOKING REQUIRED

Steps:

• Cooking Guidelines To ensure food safety, the FDA recommends the following as minimum internal cooking temperatures: Steak and Pork 145° F (rest cooked meat, 3 minutes) | Seafood 145° F | Chicken 165° F | Ground Beef 160° F | Ground Turkey 165° F | Ground Pork 160° F 1 Make the Salad Thoroughly rinse produce and pat dry.Cut pineapple into 1/2" pieces.Microwave chicken until warm, 1-2 minutes.Thoroughly combine chicken and BBQ spice blend.Place spinach, chicken, and pineapple in a bowl and toss with dressing. Garnish with macadamia nuts. Bon appétit!

CHINESE NAPA CABBAGE SALAD

Steps:

• Crush noodles, place them in a medium skillet and brown in butter over medium heat. Add almonds and sesame seeds. Stir often to prevent burning. Add seasoning mix from noodles and cool. Toss in a large bowl with cabbage and onions.
• Prepare the dressing by whisking together the vegetable oil, rice vinegar, soy sauce, sesame oil and sugar. Pour over salad, toss and serve.

SPICY KANI SALAD RECIPE

Steps:

• For the Dressing: In a small bowl, whisk the dresing ingredients together until smooth. Taste for seasoning and salt and pepper as needed. Set aside.
• For the Salad: Shred the crab sticks by hand and place in a large bowl. Shred the cucumber and mango in a food processor (or julienne by hand) and place in the bowl.
• Toss with the dressing and top with panko immediately before serving.

KONA HAM HAWAIIAN SALAD

Steps:

• Drain pineapple, reserving 2 Tbls.
• syrup.
• Combine mayo, mustard and reserved syrup; mix well.
• Set aside and chill.
• In large bowl, combine pineapple, ham, celery and strawberries; mix lightly.
• Chill before serving.
• Add bananas; toss lightly just before serving.
• Serve in lettuce-lined bowl; top with dressing.
• Recipe easily doubled.
• However, if doubling, no need to double dressing, there is plenty so use sparingly even with a single batch.

KONA SALAD

Steps:

• In a large bowl, gently toss pears, salad mix, blue cheese, onion, and almonds. In a separate bowl, mix orange juice, rice vinegar and sugar. Whisk in canola oil, salt and pepper. Pour over salad and gently toss; serve immediately.

KONA CHICKEN SALAD

Steps:

• Cut pineapples in half, carefully, retaining the leaves. Scoop out fruit, and dice, discarding the inedible core. Drain water chestnuts and slice. Mix pineapple, water chestnuts, chicken, celery, onion and nuts with mixed dressing ingredients. Adjust seasonings. Pile into pineapple shells and garnish with strawberries and mint. Refrigeratethoroughly before serving. Other fruits, such as orange sections, canned mandarin oranges, melon balls or possibly canned, well-liquid removed apricot halves may be used when strawberries are out of season. Watercress may be used instead of mint.

CITRUS FREE POLYNESIAN RESORT INSPIRED KONA SALAD

Steps:

• Spray a microwave safe plate with cooking spray. If you are like me and staying away from soy, consider this cooking spray.
• Put one cup of almonds on the plate.
• Spread butter over your almonds.
• Salt to taste over the almonds.
• Microwave the almonds at power select 10 for 1 minute. Then open the microwave door and stir the almonds. Then microwave the almonds again at power select 10 for 1 minute. Then set these almonds aside while you prepare the rest of the salad.
• Put your baby spinach in a big bowl. I usually peel the spinach into smaller pieces so that no one bite of your salad is all spinach. But this is really up to you. It is perfectly acceptable to just dump all the spinach in the bowl as is and go on to the next step.
• Take your pears and peel with a potato peeler.
• Slice the pears using this. If you are like me and you like your fruit and vegetables cut up really small, then take the slices and cut them even smaller. Otherwise, you can just use the slices.
• Dump the blue cheese in the bowl.
• Divide among plates or bowls. I like to to use Lighthouse Blue Cheese dressing. I like to double down on the blue cheese taste. But you could also stick to a simple vinaigrette if you want something lighter.