Chopped Green Chicken Salad
A high-protein salad packed with healthy fats. This salad can be easily adapted to suit your taste or use what you have in the fridge. Apple, celery, Parmesan cheese, fresh herbs, and vegetables such as mange tout or asparagus all work well.
Method
Based on 4 servings, adjust as needed.
Step 1
Make the Avocado dressing by blending **1 ripe avocado (if cooking for 4) with the Dijon mustard, lime juice, grated garlic, deseeded green chilli, extra virgin olive oil and salt. Blend until smooth.
Step 2
Shread the chicken breasts and place into a large salad bowl with shredded or torn Romain lettuce, diced cucumber, sliced spring onions**, remaining avocado, which should be diced or sliced and the **drained chickpeas. Toss with the avocado dressing and check for seasoning. You may need a little more lime juice or salt and you will more certainly need black pepper.
Step 3
Serve the salad straight away.
- Ingredients
- Based on 4 servings
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1 Cucumber, diced 1x Sainsbury's Whole Cucumber -
2 heads Romaine Lettuce, shredded 1x Sainsbury's Romaine Lettuce Hearts, Twin Pack x2 -
1tsp Dijon Mustard 1x Sainsbury's Dijon Mustard 185g -
1 Mild Green Chilli, deseeded 1x Sainsbury's Green Chillies 65g -
4 tbsp Extra Virgin Olive Oil 1x Sainsbury's Olive Oil, Extra Virgin 500ml -
4 Spring Onions 1x Sainsbury's Spring Onions Bunch 100g -
2 Ripe Avocado 1x Sainsbury’s Medium Ripe & Ready Avocados x2 -
1 Limes, juice of 1x Sainsbury's Limes -
400g Chickpeas, drained (drained weight) 2x KTC Chick Peas 400g -
4 Cooked Chicken Breasts, skin removed and shredded 2x Sainsbury's Cooked Roast British Chicken Breast Fillets x2 240g -
1 Garlic Clove, grated 1x Sainsbury's Garlic