Sunday, 24 August 2014

Chicken Salad Meal



One meal that I just love to make at the end of the weekend, and to set our family up for a good start to the week, is a warm chicken salad.  The salad’s delicious fresh flavours hit the spot for a fabulous dinner and it’s so easy to make – perfect for winding down the weekend.

I am very proud that tonight’s base salad ingredients for the meal are purely from our kitchen garden – a variety of lettuce leaves, Italian and curly parsley and torn basil leaves, all picked fresh from the garden less than an hour before eating them. 


Other ingredients I like to add to make this a really wholesome and hearty meal are tomato, capsicum, cucumber, egg, bacon and of course chicken.  Tonight I’ve also added pumpkin seeds (pepitas), quinoa (cooked for 10 minutes in boiling water with a teaspoon of powdered chicken stock) and a sprinkling of chia seeds.  I’ve topped the lot off with some shaved parmesan cheese – my 4 year old is a cheese fanatic. 

We also have some left over ingredients from a nacho/taco night we had recently which go well with this meal as dressings – guacamole, sour cream and mayonnaise.  Otherwise a dressing of olive oil and balsamic vinegar or balsamic glaze also works well. 

 
Delicious!
If you have a regular Sunday night meal that you’d like to share, please send me a post or email me at livewelllivesmart@gmail.com .  I’d love to try it!

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