📋 Quinoa Chicken Salad
Quinoa chicken salad. Elevate your lunch or dinner with this easy delicious healthy salad that's just bursting with flavour!
Servings 4
Calories 447kcal
Equipment
Ingredients
For The Dressing: -
- 4 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
- 1 garlic clove crushed.
- 3 teaspoon Dijon mustard
- 1 teaspoon White Wine Vinegar
- ¼ teaspoon paprika
- 1 lemon freshly squeezed.
For The Salad: -
- 100 g uncooked quinoa
- 250 ml chicken stock
- 25 g flaked almonds.
- 200 g cooked diced or shredded chicken*
- 1 stick celery diced.
- ½ red onion finely diced.
- 2 red apples cored and chopped into bite size pieces.
- Freshly Ground Salt and Black Pepper
Instructions
Make The Dressing: -
- Put all the dressing ingredients except the lemon juice into a small Pyrex bowl and whisk.
- Then begin to add the lemon juice whisking gradually and tasting until it's at a stage where you like it and it's not overly lemony.
For The Salad: -
- Rinse the quinoa in cold water using a sieve.
- Then place the quinoa in a saucepan with the chicken stock. Cook, simmering for about 15 minutes until soft then drain and allow it to cool.
- Whilst the quinoa is cooking lightly toast the flaked almonds in a non-stick frying pan over medium heat, toss frequently until golden, about 2 minutes. Remove and set aside.
- Once the quinoa has cooled add it to a large bowl with the chicken, celery, onion, apples, and almonds. Combine well.
- Pour over the dressing, toss with the salad, season to taste.
- Serve
Notes
* Here I just buy frozen pre-cooked chicken breast strips and dice them. Or you could cook and shred chicken breasts.
Nutrition
Calories: 447kcal | Carbohydrates: 37g | Protein: 17g | Fat: 27g | Saturated Fat: 5g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 5g | Monounsaturated Fat: 16g | Trans Fat: 0.05g | Cholesterol: 39mg | Sodium: 172mg | Potassium: 517mg | Fiber: 6g | Sugar: 12g | Vitamin A: 200IU | Vitamin C: 21mg | Calcium: 56mg | Iron: 2mg