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Wednesday 5 August 2015

Greek island salad with chicken & avocado

Greek island salad with chicken & avocado

This colourful and summery avocado salad is just perfect for a casual buffet. Bring a hint of the Greek Islands to your summer table ... or perhaps one of those empty chairs may be waiting for you?

Ingredients:
Serves Six
(5g carb per serving)
1.8kg roasted chicken, at room temperature
2 hearts romaine lettuces
4 tomatoes
3 spring onions
2 ripe avocados
3 tbsp lemon juice, plus extra for squeezing
200g packet feta cheese
½ tsp dried oregano
½ tsp dried mint
half a bunch of flatleaf parsley
5 tbsp extra-virgin olive oil
2 tbsp black kalamata olives

Method:
1. Pull the meat from the chicken and shred it roughly. Trim the base from each lettuce, wash and dry the leaves, then roughly shred them. Cut the tomatoes into wedges. Finely slice the spring onions (using both white and green parts). 2. Cut the avocados in half lengthways, remove the stones and peel. Cut crosswise into slices, and squeeze with lemon juice. Crumble the feta cheese with your fingers and toss it with the dried oregano and mint. Pick the leaves off the parsley and set aside.
3. Whisk the 3 tbsp of lemon juice with the olive oil, sea salt and pepper. In a large bowl, toss the chicken, lettuce, tomatoes and spring onion, then fold through three quarters of the dressing with the avocados (carefully, so the avocados don’t break up). Season with salt and pepper, then scatter over the feta, olives and parsley, and drizzle with the rest of the dressing. Squeeze extra lemon juice on top.

Original Recipe Idea here

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All the best Jan

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Reserve our seats just under the tree Jan please. Wife and I think the salad looks delicious.
Ted

Lowcarb team member said...

LOL ... your seats are reserved Ted!

This is a lovely salad idea - thanks for your comment.

All the best Jan

Roses and Lilacs said...

Been visiting the local farmers markets and have just about everything needed to construct a salad very much like the one you featured. It's almost 1 pm her so I think I will get to it. Have a lovely day.

Lowcarb team member said...

... I always like a visit to the Farmers Market, they so often have great food available. Glad to hear you have everything to make this salad ... so happy cooking, happy eating - 'Roses and Lilacs'.

Many thanks for your comment, it's always good to hear from you.

All the best Jan