Chopped Greek Salad with Chicken
From astrochef 14 years ago
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- Serves 4
Relax! This no-cook dinner is perfect for those sweltering summer nights when the last thing you want to do is turn on your oven. Just seize your ingredients from the fridge or pantry, chop, and put together a tasty salad, it really is that easy. Read more Hurry, Dinner is served! Chicken turns this Greek-inspired salad into a substantial main course. Feel free to substitute other chopped fresh vegetables, such as broccoli or bell peppers, for the tomatoes or cucumber. Use leftover chicken, store-roasted chicken or quickly poach a couple boneless, skinless chicken breasts while you prepare the rest of the salad. Serve with pita bread and Hummus. See less
Ingredients
- 1/3 cup red-wine vinegar shopping list
- 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil shopping list
- 1 tablespoon chopped fresh dill or oregano or 1 teaspoon dried shopping list
- 1-teaspoon garlic powder shopping list
- ¼-teaspoon salt shopping list
- ¼ teaspoon freshly ground pepper shopping list
- 6 cups chopped cos (romaine) lettuce shopping list
- Two ½ cups chopped cooked chicken (about 12 ounces; see Tip) shopping list
- 2 medium tomatoes, chopped shopping list
- 1 medium cucumber, peeled, seeded and chopped shopping list
- ½ cup finely chopped red onion shopping list
- ½ cup sliced ripe black olives shopping list
- ½ cup crumbled feta cheese shopping list
How to make it
- Whisk the vinegar, oil, dill, (or oregano), garlic powder, salt and pepper in a large bowl. Add lettuce, chicken, tomatoes, cucumber, onion, olives and feta; toss to coat if you don’t have cooked chicken, poach 1-pound chicken breasts for this recipe. Place boneless, skinless chicken breasts in a medium skillet or saucepan. Add lightly salted water (or chicken stock) to cover and bring to a boil. Cover, reduce heat to low and simmer gently until the chicken is cooked through and no longer pink in the middle, 10 to 15 minutes.
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