04Apr 12
by Charlie Locke
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This is a really tasty and healthy way to use up chicken leg meat the day after you’ve eaten a spiced roast chicken. Chicken and avocado are always a good combination, and the softness and subtlety of the lamb’s lettuce contrasts beautifully with the peppery bite of the rocket. Add the sweetness and spice of my roasted cherry tomatoes, along with good balsamic vinegar and a good extra virgin olive oil, and you’ll round off the dish with extra intensity and flavour.
Ingredients:
- The meat of 2 chicken legs (from a previously roasted chicken), skin removed and pieces torn from the bones
- 1 bag of pre-washed and ready-to-eat lamb’s lettuce mixed with rocket
- 1 avocado, skin and stone removed, halved, then cut into thin wedges lengthwise
- Handful of blanched whole almonds
- 8 roasted and cooled sliced cherry tomatoes, or uncooked cherry tomatoes, each sliced into 3 rounds. Needs oil, salt, and cumin seeds
- A generous drizzle of good viscous balsamic vinegar
- A generous drizzle of extra virgin olive oil
- Salt and fresh ground black pepper
- Mayonnaise to serve
Steps:
- If you are going to oven roast the tomatoes (which does make them very tasty), preheat the oven to 200ºC, slice the tomatoes and place them in a baking tray, drizzled with olive oil, dusted with salt and sprinkled with cumin. Roast them for 10 minutes, and remove from the tray to a plate for cooling.
- Divide the lamb’s lettuce and rocket leaves onto 2 plates, spreading them out across the whole of each plate.
- Arrange the torn chicken, avocado, and cherry tomatoes on top of the salad leaves.
- Sprinkle over the almonds, then drizzle over the balsamic vinegar and the olive oil in generous spirals across the whole plate.
- Season with a little salt and pepper and serve with a pretty bowl of mayonnaise laid on the table.
Duration: 20 minutes preparation time. 15 minutes cooking and cooling time if you are going to roast the cherry tomatoes.
Recipe for: A light lunch or supper for 2 people
Tags: almonds, Almonds and Balsamic Dressing, avocado, balsamic vinegar, cherry tomatoes, chicken, chicken recipes, Chicken Salad with Roast Tomatoes, chicken thighs, cumin seeds, lamb's lettuce, olive oil, rocket
This entry was posted on Wednesday, 4 April, 2012 at 10:05 am by Charlie Locke and is filed under Less than 1 hour, Meal for 2 people.
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Salads are going to be great to help get me in shape for summer – and this one seems really delicious…
[…] As for the omission of the raw eggs, I can guarantee you that you won’t even miss them – in fact, I’m having a bit of a hard time understanding what they were doing in the original recipe in the first place! (Also try this chicken salad with roast tomatoes, almonds and balsamic dressing.) […]