About Roasted Chicken Salad:
This is a very simple, tasty, and healthy chicken salad recipe, which is made with roasted chicken, various fresh vegetables, and seasoned with salt, black peeper, lemon juice and herb. This is a very healthy salad recipe, which you can be serve at lunch or at dinner time.
Benefits of Chicken:
- Helps to build muscles.
- Good for bone health.
- Relieves stress.
- Boosts immunity.
- High in protein.
Ingredients:
- 200 grams of chicken breast or boneless chicken.
- 2 tablespoons of lemon juice.
- 1 medium sized tomato finely chopped.
- 1 medium sized carrot finely chopped.
- 1 medium sized cucumber finely chopped.
- 1 medium sized onion finely chopped.
- Salt to taste.
- 1-2 tablespoons of olive oil or any kind of cooking oil.
- Crushed black pepper to taste.
- 1/2 cup shredded cabbage.
- 1 green capsicum finely chopped.
- Chopped lettuce leaves as needed.
- Finely chopped green onions.
- 1/2 tablespoons of garlic ginger paste.
- Finely chopped green chilies to taste (optional).
- Finely chopped coriander leaves.
Note: You may increase or decrease the quantity of ingredients depending on for how many people you are making for.
Marination of Chicken:
- Take a mixing bowl and add the chicken pieces.
- Then, add salt to taste, crushed black pepper to taste, 1 tablespoon lemon juice, and 1/2 tablespoon garlic ginger paste and mix them well.
- Then, cover the bowl and keep the chicken marination in the fridge for 30 minutes or if you have time you can keep overnight in the fridge.
Roasting the Chicken:
- Take a frying pan and turn on the flame.
- When pan is hot, add 1-2 tablespoons of olive oil or any kind of cooking oil.
- When oil is hot, add the marinated chicken and cook on a low to medium flame for 10-15 minutes or until its well-cooked and tender.
- Then, keep the roasted chicken aside until it cools down.
- Then, cut the chicken pieces into a small bite size and keep aside for later use.
Salad Dressing:
- Take a small bowl and add 2-3 tablespoons of thick yogurt, 1 tablespoons of lemon juice, crushed black pepper to taste, and salt to taste.
- Then, mix them well and keep aside for later use.
Preparation of Salad:
- Take a mixing bowl and add all chopped vegetables, chopped green chilies to taste, and coriander leaves.
- Then, add roasted chicken pieces.
- Then, pour the salad dressing over it.
- Then, combine them all together until all vegetables and chicken well coated with salad dressing.
- Serve this healthy chicken salad immediately or cover and keep in the fridge for 1 hour and serve chilled.