Chopped Green Chicken Salad

    25m prep time
    25m total time
    Easy level
    11 ingredients

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
  • 1 Limes, juice of 1 x Sainsbury's Limes x1
  • 1 Mild Green Chilli, deseeded 1 x Sainsbury's Green Chillies 65g
  • 4 tbsp Extra Virgin Olive Oil 1 x Sainsbury's Olive Oil, Extra Virgin 500ml
  • 400g Chickpeas, drained (drained weight) 2 x KTC Chick Peas 400g
  • 1tsp Dijon Mustard 1 x Sainsbury's Dijon Mustard 185g
  • 1 Cucumber, diced 1 x Sainsbury's Whole Cucumber
  • 2 heads Romaine Lettuce, shredded 1 x Sainsbury's Romaine Lettuce Hearts, Twin Pack x2
  • 4 Spring Onions 1 x Sainsbury's Spring Onions Bunch 100g
  • 2 Ripe Avocado 1 x Sainsbury’s Medium Ripe & Ready Avocados x2
  • 1 Garlic Clove, grated 1 x Sainsbury's Garlic
  • 4 Cooked Chicken Breasts, skin removed and shredded 2 x Sainsbury's Cooked Roast British Chicken Breast Fillets x2 240g
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