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    Home » Salads » Chicken Shawarma Meal Prep Salad with Sweet Garlic Sauce

    Chicken Shawarma Meal Prep Salad with Sweet Garlic Sauce

    Published: Oct 29, 2019 · Modified: Aug 22, 2020 by Steph · This post may contain affiliate links · This blog generates income via ads · About 4 minutes to read this article.

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    Chicken Shawarma Meal Prep Salad
    Chicken Shawarma Meal Prep Salad
    Chicken Shawarma Meal Prep Salad

     Chicken shawarma salad is a perfect meal prep to break out of routine lunch salads!

    Drizzled with a bit of sweet garlic sauce makes this meal prep salad  on repeat on your meal plans! 

    Chicken Shawarma with salads in meal prep container    

    This salad recipe was morphed form my original Chicken Shawarma meal prep post. That is just how awesome this chicken marinade is - it gets 2 places on the blog - in 2 different meal prep variations! 

    This salad version has the MOST SIMPLE sauce to drizzle on as a dressing. Enter sweet garlic sauce. 

    Chicken Shawarma garlic sauce

    With only 2 ingredients, this sauce comes together quickly and easily.

    This recipe makes much more sauce than you need, and the leftovers can be frozen! I freeze mine in a small mason jar. 

    What is Shawarma?!

    This recipe is not a traditional version of shawarma - at all.

    It uses the classic flavors of a shawarma meat and turns it into a simple, quick and meal prep salad.

    Traditional shawarma is marinated and slow roasted. This recipe is for the busy meal prepper and isn't slow roasted. 

    Chicken Shawarma with salads and garlic sauce

    While traditional shawarma is on a vertical spit and the meat sliced into thing strips and put into a pita with veggies, this version also skips the pita and loads up on veggies. 

    What you get here is the amazing flavor of a shawarma dish but in a fraction of the time, and heavy on the veggies! 

    Do I have to marinate this?

    For at least an hour, yes. Overnight - even better.

    These spices and yogurt really need to work their magic before baking! 

    How to make chicken shawarma? 

    Chicken Shawarma with salads

    • High heat and using a baking rack are key for this. 
    • Don't put the chicken right on a baking sheet. You want to allow the marinade to drip down and the air to circulate. 
    • Take a cookie sheet and line it with parchment paper, then add a baking cooling rack (or any rack that elevates the chicken) on top of the cookie sheet. 
    • 400F oven is also key here. High heat, and finish with a broil. 

    Is this a low carb meal prep?

    If you skip the sweet garlic sauce and sub for an alternate low cab dressing, then yes, you can easily make this a low carb meal! Using the sweet garlic sauce in the recipe will not make this low carb. 

    Chicken Shawarma with salads with chopped chicken

    How long will this meal prep last as make ahead?

    This meal prep salad is best eaten within 3 days of preparing it.

    Leave the sweet garlic sauce off of the salad until right before you enjoy it!

     

    Are you ready to add Chicken Shwarma Meal Prep Salad to your lunch meal plans this week?

    When you make this, I want to see it! Tag me @mealplanaddict on Instagram, or come post a photo in the Meal Plan Addict Community! 

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    Chicken Shawarma Meal Prep Salad with Sweet Garlic Sauce

     Chicken shawarma salad is a perfect meal prep to break out of routine lunch salads! Drizzled with a bit of sweet garlic sauce makes this meal prep salad  on repeat on your meal plans! 


    Course Meal Prep Lunch
    Cuisine American
    Keyword Chicken Recipe, Chicken Shawarma, Meal Prep Salad
    Prep Time 10 minutes
    Cook Time 20 minutes
    Servings 2 salads
    Author Steph | Meal Plan Addict

    Ingredients

    Chicken & Marinade

    • 2 chicken breasts, each sliced in half lengthwise
    • 1 cup Plain Greek Yogurt
    • 1 tsp salt
    • 3 Tbsp lemon juice
    • 3 cloves garlic, minced
    • 1 Tbsp paprika
    • 1 tsp cumin
    • ¼ tsp cayenne
    • 1 Tsp oregano
    • ¼ tsp allspice

    Salad Ingredients

    • 4 cups salad greens of choice
    • 8 cherry tomatoes
    • sliced onion
    • ½ red pepper, diced
    • 1 large carrot, julienne cut or cut into match sticks
    • ½ cucumber peeled and chopped

    Sweet Garlic Sauce

    • 300mL can sweetened condensed milk
    • 2 tsp garlic powder

    Instructions

    Marinade

    • Combine all of the marinade ingredients in a large bowl. Stir until all combined.
    • Add the 2 chicken breasts (which are now in 4 pieces) to the marinade.
    • Cover and refrigerate for at least 1 hour.

    Sweet Garlic Sauce

    • Combine the sweetened condensed milk and the garlic powder in a bowl. Mix to combine.
    • Set aside.

    Salads

    • Assemble the salads by evenly distributing the salad ingredients into 2 meal prep containers. Put in the fridge until chicken is cooked.

    To Bake Chicken

    • Preheat oven to 400°F
    • Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper.
    • Add a rack to the pan. You don't want the chicken directly on the baking sheet.
    • Grease the rack with non stick spray.
    • Remove excess marinade from the chicken - You want just a thin layer of yogurt marinade.
    • Place the chicken on the rack on your cookie sheet and bake for 15 -20 minutes (depending on thickness of chicken). Cook to 165F.
    • In the last 3 minutes of cooking, turn the broiler on to crisp up the chicken a bit.
    • Let cool. Slice and add to salad.
    • When ready to enjoy, drizzle sweet garlic sauce onto salad.

    Notes

    • Remember to keep the sauce separate from the salad until time to enjoy!
    • This salad is best enjoyed within 3 days of prepping it.
     

     

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