With fried chicken, with strawberries and avocado, autumn with mushrooms and walnuts: to surprise everyone, just a simple, but imaginative, chicken salad
If you are tired of the usual grilled breast seasoned with salt and oil, try transforming yours chicken in the undisputed protagonist of tasty salads. In a few minutes and with a little imagination, you will prepare delicious dishes, ideal for a quick lunch, beautiful to serve and good to eat.
Chicken salad: go grilled chicken!
For thechicken salad the idea is to use grilled chicken. The ideal is to cook it son the griddle, on the grill or on a non-stick pan.
To cook well inside, choose fairly thin slices. If you are unable to slice a whole chicken breast ask your trusted butcher directly to do it for you.
To make your slices tastier, let them macerate for a few minutes in an emulsion of oil and lemon.
Leave to cook for three to four minutes on each side on a very hot plate without continually pricking the meat. Instead, turn it over with a kitchen tongs.
You can also flavor the chicken with some spices like paprika and curry or even with mustard, always inside an emulsion prepared with yogurt or with lemon juice and oil.
Salt the meat only after cooking with coarse salt, flavored with rosemary or other fragrant herbs if you wish.
If you use rather large slices, serve them as a cut on a bed of salad, otherwise cut the chicken into strips or lozenges.
Let your imagination run wild
The beauty of rich salads is that everyone can compose them as they wish. With a meat like chicken you can really indulge yourself.
Do you love daring combinations? Then try adding seasonal fruit or dried fruit.
Do you love ethnicity? Use the spices which are an excellent alternative to salt.
Do you love strong flavors? A good seasoned cheese it will give character to your salad.
Here, then, in the tutorial 10 ideas to enrich your chicken salads with taste and color.
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