Strawberry Chicken Salad
 
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Recipe type: Salad
Serves: 4 servings
Ingredients
  • For the Vinaigrette
  • 1 ¼ cups strawberries, green tops removed
  • ½ cup canola or olive oil
  • ½ cup white wine vinegar
  • ½ tsp salt
  • Freshly ground pepper to taste
  • 1 Tbsp honey
  • For the Salad
  • 2 boneless skinless chicken breasts
  • 4 hard-boiled eggs, peeled and sliced
  • 5 oz salad greens like baby spring mix
  • 16 strawberries, green tops removed and quartered
  • 3 stalks celery, chopped
  • 4 green onions, chopped
  • 2 Tbsp pine nuts (or other nuts or sunflower seeds according to your likes/allergies)
Instructions
To make the Strawberry Vinaigrette:
  1. Place all vinaigrette ingredients in a blender, mini-blender or mini-chopper and puree until smooth.
To prepare the chicken:
  1. Place the chicken in a zip lock bag and pour in ½ cup of the Strawberry Vinaigrette. Allow to marinate in the refrigerator for at least 30 minutes.
  2. Heat a grill on high.
  3. Remove chicken from marinade, discard marinade, and pat chicken dry with paper towels.
  4. Grill the chicken 20-30 minutes cover down turning frequently until it reaches an internal temperature of 165 degrees F.
  5. Allow to rest 5 minutes before slicing thinly.
To assemble the salads:
  1. Divide the greens between 4 plates or shallow bowls.
  2. Dress each serving of greens with 2-3 Tbsp of the Strawberry Vinaigrette and toss lightly to coat.
  3. Arrange 1 sliced egg, ½ chicken breast, and ¼ of the strawberries, celery, green onion and nuts or seeds over each serving of greens.
  4. Drizzle a little more vinaigrette over the chicken and serve.
Notes
You will have some leftover vinaigrette to use for other salads.

The best way I’ve found to hard- boil eggs is actually to steam them. Set a steamer basket in a pot with water and heat to boiling. Add eggs, cover and steam for 16 minutes. Then run under cold water to stop cooking. They come out perfectly cooked and are so easy to peel this way.
Recipe by Savory Nature at http://savorynature.com/2015/05/15/strawberry-chicken-salad/