Chicken salad recipe easy delicious & healthy

This Easy chicken salad is one of my favorite salad among all salads. Today I will share my secret special chicken salad recipe with you all. this is a very simple easy recipe and the ingredients of this recipe you will get easily in the supermarket. And it will be healthy too So let's get started.

Cooking time: 20 minutes

Serving portion: 4 person

Ingredients:

Chicken breast boneless - 2 piece

Lemon juice - 15ml

Black pepper crushed - 5gm

Olive oil - 20ml

Thyme  - 2gm

Dijon mustard - 1tbsp small

Honey - 1tbsp

Celery - 1stem

Cherry tomato - 5 pieces

Orange - 1piece

Basil Fresh - 2gm

Iceberg lettuce - 30gm

Apple - 1piece

Balsamic reduction - For garnishing

Salt  - to taste

Preparation Method :

• First, marinate the chicken breast with Dijon mustard, olive oil 1tbsp, salt, black pepper crushed, and chopped thyme. Now heat a little bit oil or butter sear marinated chicken breast boneless.  chicken keeps aside after ready(do not overcook the chicken because it may become hard to chew while having the salad).

• Now Make the salad dressing, get a bowl put 5ml of olive oil extra virgin will be good for salad put some crushed black pepper add lemon juice 8ml, and honey, and salt very less amount (dressing will taste like sweet and sour not salty so remember to put less amount of salt in the dressing). Now mix all together by your hand, you will see an emulation forming into the dressing, after that, the dressing becomes a thick little bit. Now keep dressing into the refrigerator.
  
  
  

• Now come on to the salad ingredients items. First, soak iceberg lettuce in cold water for 10 minutes, for getting crispy fresh lettuce. 

• And cut your fruits, cherry tomato, and celery into small dice. Chicken cut into strips. 

• Now get a mixing bowl put all diced fruits & celery, cherry tomato, and chicken all together mix with Dressing which already kept in the refrigerator.

• After mixing with all the ingredients with dressing keep in the refrigerator before serving.

• Before serving the salad mix with ice burg lettuce and do serve. (remember lettuce will die if you mix with salad early before serving so mix the lettuce at the serving time only). 

• Garnish with fresh basil leaves and drizzle the balsamic reduction on the salad.

Balsamic reduction:

It is actually made from balsamic vinegar which is a concentrated flavored vinegar made from the whole grape skins, stems. it is very dark sour and aged for long years into wooden barrels for better taste and aroma.

when balsamic vinegar mixed with herbs like rosemary and brown colored sugar and leave it on a slow flame for a long time, water evaporates from the balsamic vinegar and it becomes more sweet and sour concentrated liquid call Balsamic reduction it is used for dressing or drizzle and garnishes.

Hope this recipe you will like. This salad recipe is very healthy, do try my recipe at home or anywhere, and if you have any questions about the recipe please let me know in the comment section below. Check my other Lebanese salad Babaganoush recipe.