Chicken walnut and blue cheese salad has loads of flavour and a wonderful crunch too. It's perfect for a quick and easy lunch or weeknight dinner option!
This chicken walnut and blue cheese salad just goes to prove that simple salads with simple dressings do not have to be boring.
You see the tangy blue cheese and sweet honey dressing makes this simple salad sing!
The inspiration for this recipe was a lunch that I had in a restaurant in London recently.
So, if this recipe is good enough that a restaurant serves it as an offering on it's lunch time menu then it sure is good enough for you to make and enjoy at home too!
All of the ingredients for this chicken walnut salad should be easily bought items from your local supermarket.
Or ingredients you might have as storecupboard condiments.
If you can buy pre-cooked chicken, rather than cooking the chicken from scratch then this recipe will be even more quicker for you.
However, I have included how to cook it from scratch just in case cooked chicken isn't available for you!
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Chicken Walnut And Blue Cheese Salad Recipe
This chicken walnut and blue cheese salad makes and absolutely excellent packed lunch option!
I’d love to hear what you think of my recipe in the comments below and please do rate my recipe 5* if you like it! 🙂
Chicken Walnut And Blue Cheese Salad Recipe
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Equipment
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoon Honey
- 6 tablespoon Extra virgin olive oil
- 3 tablespoon White wine vinegar
- 600 g Chicken Breasts
- 120 g Rocket leaves
- 100 g Blue cheese
- 150 g Walnuts lightly toasted
Instructions
- Place honey, extra-virgin olive oil and white wine vinegar in a jar and shake well
- Grill chicken breasts for about 20 minutes, turning throughout to ensure an even cooking. Allow them to cool then using a fork shred them.
- Pour ¾ dressing over the chicken breasts
- Place rocket leaves, crumbled blue cheese and walnuts onto plates
- Distribute the shredded chicken over the salad on each plate and then drizzle over the remaining dressing and serve.
David @ Spiced
Haha! I totally recognize that video setup. 🙂 So glad it led to more tripods and a brand new kitchen table, too. Can't wait to see the finished product! But in the meantime, let's stick with salads. You're right that soup season will be here before we know it, so let's focus on salads for a bit longer. I love a good, simple salad for lunch...and this one sounds amazing! We often have blue cheese left over in the fridge from some other recipe, so repurposing it into a salad with walnuts and chicken sounds like a winner to me! Thanks for the inspiration, Neil...and I hope your week is off to a great start!
neil@neilshealthymeals.com
Video. It's just getting the time David isn't it? I mean if we're not photographing, creating new recipes, cooking or writing then when do we find time to add in video? LOL. I'm joking, I love what I do! Glad you like the recipe. Hope you are having a great week too. 🙂
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
Hahaha...trying to make recipe videos 😛 My home is just not set up for it or am I inclined at doing it...but I try...once in awhile 😛
O and blue cheese! Not that I eat dairy now, but when I was little (surprise!) I LOVED blue cheese dressing! I was a weird little adventurous foodie kid (eating blue cheese, brussels sprouts, etc!)!
neil@neilshealthymeals.com
Thanks Rebecca. I'm still a long way off perfecting or even getting close to finishing that one recipe video I've done!
Do you know my love of blue cheese actually comes from tasting blue cheese dressing for the first time ever in Florida in a "Days Inn" when I was younger and on holiday there? So I can totally understand how you loved blue cheese dressing too! I'm only sorry that you can't enjoy it nowadays. 🙁
Jeff
What a wonderful, classic flavor pairing, Neil. However, I've never had a honey dressing like the one you're suggesting. Sounds really, really good!
neil@neilshealthymeals.com
Thanks Jeff. The classic combination of honey and walnuts together just goes so well don't you think? So I made the three ingredient dressing off that combo. Simple is best I think! 🙂
Ben | Havocinthekitchen
Oh the combo of chicken, nuts, and blue cheese (sometimes I incorporate fruit like pears or figs) is one of my favourite in salads. Honestly, I try to avoid buying blue cheese since it's dangerous. I can easily eat the large package within few hours. Seriously, once I attempted to make a salad with blue cheese...3 times in a row. First 2 packages of blue cheese just didn't make to the salad. Don't ask me why - no ideas:) Well done here, Neil!
neil@neilshealthymeals.com
Mmmm, yum figs! I can see how they would work in this salad Ben. Nice one!
Yes, blue cheese is something that doesn't last very long in our house either. In fact I often have to hide it away from Lynne's eyes if I want to make sure that it's still there in a few hours for cooking purposes! 😉