Healthy Chicken Salad
Crunchy and slightly bitter, this easy salad is a healthy and tasty dish to make for dinner or the night before for lunch the next day. In fact, as the acid in the dressing softens the radicchio, the flavors meld together overnight and make the salad even better than it was before. Plus, you don't have to worry about how to dress the salad because the work has already been done!
I cooked the chicken for this salad, but you can always use leftovers from dinner the night before. Similarly, while I used leftover roasted asparagus, nearly any other cooked vegetable can be used instead.
Directions
Coat the chicken with salt and pepper. Add 1 1/2 tablespoons olive oil to a hot cast-iron or heavy-duty pan over high heat. When the oil is shimmering, lower the heat to medium-high, add the chicken, and cook for 2-3 minutes on each side, or until cooked through. Set aside to cool.
In a large bowl, add the remaining ingredients, seasoning to taste. Cut the chicken into thin strips, then add to the bowl. Transfer to a Tupperware or serve as is.
Nutrition Facts
Calories per serving:340 kcal
Daily value:17%
Servings:2
- Carbohydrate, by difference 59 g
- Protein 11 g
- Total lipid (fat) 7 g
- Vitamin A, IU 10 IU
- Vitamin E (alpha-tocopherol) 1 mg
- Arginine 1 g
- Ash 2 g
- Aspartic acid 1 g
- Calcium, Ca 34 mg
- Carotene, beta 6 µg
- Choline, total 46 mg
- Fatty acids, total monounsaturated 2 g
- Fatty acids, total polyunsaturated 4 g
- Fatty acids, total saturated 1 g
- Fiber, total dietary 6 g
- Folate, DFE 84 µg
- Folate, food 84 µg
- Folate, total 85 µg
- Glutamic acid 1 g
- Iron, Fe 3 mg
- Leucine 1 g
- Lutein + zeaxanthin 106 µg
- Magnesium, Mg 132 mg
- Manganese, Mn 1 mg
- Niacin 2 mg
- Phosphorus, P 316 mg
- Potassium, K 360 mg
- Selenium, Se 6 µg
- Sodium, Na 226 mg
- Starch 35 g
- Sugars, total 3 g
- Tocopherol, gamma 2 mg
- Water 144 g
- Zinc, Zn 2 mg