Here’s a salad that can be ridiculously difficult and time consuming, or quite easy with about 10 minutes of prep time involved. I’ll explain; you choose.

As its name implies, this salad is topped with won tons. You have to make these. There’s no box of won tons out there that you can just toss into your shopping chart and be on your way. Instead, you must buy a package containing little squares of dough that require origami-like folding and deep frying.

After an hour of trying to perfect both of these necessities, I failed to do either.

Here’s what I did do: threw my “won tons” in the trash, made this salad and its delicious dressing, tossed it all together and sprinkled some of those crunchy chow mein noodles on top. (Those are available in a bag at the grocery store.)

Won ton salad
Salad:
Lettuce
4 chicken breasts, grilled and cut into strips
1 C. almond slivers
green onion
won tons/chow mein noodles
Dressing:
1 Tbsp. soy sauce
2 Tbsp. sugar
½ tsp. garlic salt
½ tsp. pepper
4 Tbsp. rice vinegar
½ C. olive oil
sesame seeds