Salad with Grilled Chicken

I love salad.

I love its bright colors, its satisfying crunch, the way you can add almost anything to it and it tastes even more amazing.  I love salad.

Salad is one of my go to meals any day of the week.  It never disappoints and I’m always figuring out new ways to mix it up.  My most recent discovery is adding grilled asparagus spears and avocado to my salad (look for the forthcoming recipe!).

One of the ways to really dress up a salad so that it has more of the meal-like qualities most people crave–yes, there are people who believe that salads are not entirely meals–is to add grilled meat.  Grilled chicken is what I call for with this recipe as it is very tasty and works nicely with the infused olive oil and sweet and salty combinations here, but you can easily add grilled sirloin so that the salad resembles more of a “Black & Blue” concoction.

Whatever your meat of choice, grilled chicken on your salad is sure to make you love salad too!

Salad with Grilled Chicken
Yield: 1 serving

This recipe comes from nowhere in particular, but is made extra yummy by its seasoned grilled chicken. Measurements listed are for an individual salad, but can be doubled and tripled for larger quantities.

Ingredients:

* 1 cup spinach

* 1/4 cup chopped tomatoes (or halved cherry tomatoes)

* 1/4 of a cucumber, peeled and cut into circular rounds

* 1/4 cup pecans

* 1/4 cup gorgonzola cheese

* 1/4 cup craisins (dried cranberries)

* 1/4 lb. chicken breasts

1.) Begin by making your salad bed: wash vegetables and chop.  Plate spinach with tomatoes, cucumber, pecans, gorgonzola cheese, and craisins.  Set aside.

2.) Remove chicken from package and use Creative Cajun Seasoning, Swamp Dust to season it.  Cut into bite-size chunks.

3.) Add 1 tablespoon olive oil in sauce pan and warm on medium-high.  Add seasoned chicken and grill until golden brown and done all the way through.

4.) Plate chicken on salad and serve with dressing of choice.  For this salad, I went with a vanilla-infused balsamic vinegar from Fioré.

–Helana Brigman

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