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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:

1. 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.
2. Divide the lamb’s lettuce and rocket leaves onto 2 plates, spreading them out across the whole of each plate.
3. Arrange the torn chicken, avocado, and cherry tomatoes on top of the salad leaves.
4. Sprinkle over the almonds, then drizzle over the balsamic vinegar and the olive oil in generous spirals across the whole plate.
5. 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. You can follow any responses to this entry through the feed RSS 2.0. You can leave a comment, or make a trackback from your own blog.