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Chicken avocado warm cobb salad
Salads
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Chicken avocado warm cobb salad

A healthy and delicious salad loaded with different textures and fresh flavours with a homemade dressing that transforms it into something really special!
Serves: 2
Time to make: 20 mins
Total cost: $10.68 / $5.34 per serve

(at time of publication)

Ingredients

  • 150g chicken breast
  • 2 eggs
  • 2 cups letuce or salad greens
  • 1 green or red capsicum, diced
  • 2 large tomatoes, diced
  • ¼ avocado, diced
  • 40g blue cheese, finely chopped
  • 2 tablespoons Dijon mustard
  • 2 teaspoons red wine vinegar
  • 2 teaspoons olive oil
  • black pepper
  • 1 slice grainy bread, halved

  • Instructions

    1. Preheat the oven to 200°C.
    2. On a tray lined with baking paper, place chicken breast. Bake for 15 minutes, or until cooked through. Remove from oven and keep warm.
    3. Meanwhile, in a pot of boiling water, boil eggs for 5-6 minutes.
    4. While eggs are cooking, assemble salad ingredients. In the bottom of 2 bowls add lettuce, then layer other ingredients in rows on top.
    5. Shred chicken and peel and chop eggs. Divide between bowls. Dress salads to your taste and season with black pepper. Serve with grainy bread on the side.

    Variations

    You can use tuna or leftover meat instead of chicken.

    Make it gluten free: Use gluten-free bread and check mustard is gluten free.

    Make it low FODMAP: Limit avocado to 1/8 per person.

    HFG tip

    This salad makes a good work lunch.

    This recipe is from our Weeknight meal planner feature – everything you need for four nights of delicious, nutritionist-approved meals for two, for under $85. Just grab your shopping list and get dinner done!

    Nutrition Info (per serve)

    • Kilojoules 1830kJ

    • Calories 33cal

    • Protein 24g

    • Total fat 7g

    • –Saturated fat 20g

    • Carbohydrates 10g

    • –Sugars 7g

    • Dietary fibre 680g

    • Sodium 180mg

    • Calcium 3mg

    • iron N/S

    Note: Nutrition composition will vary depending on the exact ingredients used. For a guide to purchasing healthier packaged goods and general grocery items see here.
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    Author: Niki Bezzant - Editor-at-large
    Photographer: Melanie Jenkins
    First published: May 2018

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