Description
This Chicken Mango Salad is a delightful medley of flavors and textures, combining tender chicken slices with sweet mango, crisp vegetables, and a zesty honey lemon dressing. It’s a perfect dish for a light and refreshing meal.
Ingredients
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For the Salad:
- 1 pound cooked chicken breasts, sliced
- 6 cups romaine lettuce, rinsed, dried, and chopped
- 2 cups baby spinach
- 1 mango, pitted, peeled, and diced
- 2 cups halved cherry tomatoes
- 1 English cucumber, sliced and cut into half moons
- 1/3 cup diced red onion
- 1/4 cup parsley or cilantro, finely chopped
For the Honey Lemon Dressing:
- 1/3 cup extra virgin olive oil
- 3 tablespoons lemon juice
- 1 to 2 tablespoons honey, or to taste
- 2 teaspoons Dijon mustard
- 1 clove garlic, finely minced
- 1/2 teaspoon salt, or to taste
- 1/4 teaspoon fresh ground black pepper, or to taste
Instructions
- Add chopped romaine lettuce and baby spinach to a large salad bowl. Top with cooked chicken slices, diced mango, cherry tomatoes, cucumbers, onion, and parsley or cilantro. Set aside.
- In a separate mixing bowl whisk together olive oil, lemon juice, honey, Dijon mustard, garlic, salt, and pepper; taste for seasonings and adjust accordingly.
- Drizzle dressing over the salad.
- Serve.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 serving
- Calories: 320 kcal
- Sugar: 12g
- Sodium: 480mg
- Fat: 20g
- Saturated Fat: 3g
- Unsaturated Fat: 15g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 18g
- Fiber: 4g
- Protein: 22g
- Cholesterol: 60mg
