Grilled Chicken Salad with Peaches and Strawberries
Aug 5, 2009 Food Things, Healthy, Peaches, Salads, Strawberries
It’s not very often that when I ask Brian what he wants for dinner that he responds, “I think a salad sounds good.” Days like this are exciting, wonderful things when put my creative salad making-skills to the test to see what wonderful flavors I can pull together to compliment each other to make the perfect, crispy blend. I love salad, but I honestly don’t think Brian ever touched lettuce until we started dating, and it hasn’t been that many times since. But today, when I asked Brian what he wanted for dinner, he asked for a salad! **Heart Sings**
So, I looked in the refrigerator and realized we had basically everything for a great grilled chicken salad. I had to run and get my favorite dressing in the world, Winning Recipe Raspberry Lime Vinaigrette, but other than that I was ready. I would say that just as much as I introduced Brian to salad and vegetables, he introduced me to blue cheese. I never really cared about blue cheese much before we dated, but for a while it seemed to be the only thing that seemed to incorporate into a lot of my recipes that would make him eat them, so I started using it more and eating it. Now, most all of my salads lately have blue cheese in them. As a result, the rest of my ingredients have tended to be sweet. One of my favorite things to chop up and throw in a salad with blue cheese is candied pecans. They also give salads a good crunchy texture.
I’ll just go ahead and give you the recipe for the salad I had. Brian’s was slightly different because he doesn’t like red onions and wanted to use balsamic vinaigrette, but basically other than that they were the same.
Grilled Chicken Salad with Peaches and Strawberries
(makes enough for 2)
1 boneless skinless chicken breast
3-4 handfuls of mixed greens or sweet baby greens
1 ripe peach
5 medium to large strawberries
1/4 cup candied pecans- chopped
1/4 of a red onion, thinly sliced
1 handful of crumbled gorgonzola or blue cheese
4 tablespoons Raspberry Lime Vinaigrette
Season the chicken with salt and pepper, and cook it on a grill. When it’s done, let it sit for about 10 minutes then slice it very thin. Cut your strawberries and peaches into slices. Mix everything except for the chicken into a bowl and toss. After the dressing has coated the salad immediately divide it up and then top each with a little grilled chicken. It’s really, really good. It is also good if the chicken is cold, so you can make that ahead and chill it if you want.
So there is my creative salad rendition for the day. I’m sure there will be many other fun experiments with salads in the future. I hope you enjoy this one!
Tags: Peach salad, Salad, strawberry salad
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