a good chicken salad recipe

Vietnamese Chicken Salad with Sweet Lime-Garlic Dressing (Goi Gà)

Vietnamese Chicken Salad with Sweet Lime-Garlic Dressing (Goi Gà), Excerpted from MILK STREET: The New Rules Copyright © 2019 by Christopher Kimball, photographs by Connie Miller of CB Creatives.

Vietnamese Chicken Salad with Sweet Lime-Garlic Dressing (Goi Gà), Excerpted from MILK STREET: The New Rules Copyright © 2019 by Christopher Kimball, photographs by Connie Miller of CB Creatives.

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