Provencal Roasted Chicken Salad (2024)

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This Provencal Roasted Chicken Salad has a wonderful Mango Curry Dressing. It's fresh, healthy and loaded with delicious flavor!

This delightful Provencal Roasted Chicken Saladhas its origins in thebeautiful, sunny region of Provence located in Southern France.

My daughter, Cait served this fabulous salad the night we arrived at her home in London. She had discovered the recipe while visiting a friend in Provence.

Jet lag didn't affect our tastebuds a bit, and as soon as I tasted it, I knew it was a blog-worthy winner. Cait toldafun story about the salad, and I asked it she would share it with you as well...

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I know if you've read Mom'sblogs posts and/or seen her Instagramsover the last few years, you might not believe me, but living in London isn't always a walk in theifark (despite the fact that everywhere one turns, there seems to be one!).

While summers here can be glorious, assuming the rain holds off, winters are typically pretty dark, grey and wet. At winter's peak the daylight hours are only from 8:30 a.m. til 3:30 p.m. and the sun remains so low in the sky, that I'm pretty sure most Londoners are vitamin D deficient for a good portionof the year!But, the upside to living here is the proximity to the rest of the European continent, making a hop over to warmer climates quite easy.

With four children in tow, we don't make the trek all that often, but, when some sweet friends and fellow Londoners invited us to escape the rain a few weeks ago to visit them in sunny Provence, France, we quite happily boarded a plane to fly the short two-hourflight south.

We landed in Marseille on a stunning blue skied morning, rented a car and, after exploring a bit of the coastline, slowly wound our way to the Provencal countryside. If you haven't made it to that part of the world, I'll paint you a quick picture.....

It's as if time has stood still. Rolling hills with rustic vineyards, expansive fields of wide, gnarled olive trees, winding rivers filled with sparkling turquoise water, quaint cobblestone villages packed with markets, patisseriesand tiny restaurants; and above all; is the constant, radiantly blue sky. It doesn't take long to figure out why so many painters were so deeply inspired by this magical place.

Our friends greeted us with warm welcomes and an amazing dinner, mostly picked from their garden or harvested from the surrounding countryside. As we washed greens, sectioned grapefruit and shredded chicken, our kids cracked and retrieved newly harvested almonds from their shells for aProvencal Roasted Chicken Salad.

My mom says, food always tastes better when it's made by someone else- which is probably true. I think thatonly slightly tainted my judgment as I dove into the salad we had created. To say I over-ate is an exaggeration, but I just couldn't stop enjoyingthis salad of amazingly fresh, but uniquely combinedingredients.

My obsession didn't stop when the meal was over, but followed me back to London. When my parents arrived from the U.S. a week later, I knew this Provencal Roasted Chicken Saladwas the recipe of choice to serve on their first night in London.

Thankfully, my food memory served me well. After the first bite. my mom said, "You have to share this on the blog!" So here it is.....

P.S. I serve this Provencal Roasted Chicken Saladwith some big crusty croutons, which we accidentally omitted when doing the photo shoot. We've included the instructions for the croutons, but the salad would also be lovely with a crusty loaf of bread (French of course!).